KUON GEO

Kourou

Crater, craters · 1.8 km across · 46.73°, 132.78° · Mars
クレーター・差し渡し約1.8km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

French Guianan launch site.
Source of the name: French Guiana (South and Central America) · Approved by the IAU 1979 · Other features named after French Guiana

SEE IT · 地図で見る

Elevation here was measured by laser from orbit (MOLA), and the night-time infrared comes from THEMIS.
Open the map centred on Kourou

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

What stands next to a place tells you what kind of place it is.
Hsūanch'eng クレーター4 km
Wallops クレーター9 km
Baykonyr クレーター19 km
Canberra クレーター28 km
Jodrell クレーター48 km
Evpatoriya クレーター65 km
Johannesburg クレーター72 km
Woomera クレーター80 km
Great-circle distances on a sphere of radius 3,396.19 km.
Names and their origins come from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (USGS Astrogeology), retrieved 2026-08-14.
All named features ｜ KUON MARS map ｜ About the map ｜ The temperature on Mars ｜ How far away Mars is
DATA: IAU / USGS Astrogeology · NASA MGS MOLA · NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS