Galois

Crater, craters · 232 km across · -13.94°, -152.99° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約232km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Evariste; French mathematician (1811-1832).

Source of the name: France (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1970 · Other features named after France

SEE IT · 地図で見る

Elevation here was measured by laser from orbit (LOLA). Nothing is estimated or generated.

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SATELLITE CRATERS · 衛星クレーター · 10

Smaller craters that share this name with a letter added. The IAU records them under the same origin, so they are listed here rather than given pages of their own.
この名前に英字を足した小さなクレーターです。由来は親と同じものとして登録されているため、ここに並べています。

Galois A52.9 km

Galois B20.3 km

Galois C23 km

Galois F13.6 km

Galois H17.6 km

Galois L49.2 km

Galois M16.5 km

Galois Q133.6 km

Galois S18.8 km

Galois U36.7 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

What stands next to a place tells you what kind of place it is.

Mechnikov クレーター158 km

Doppler クレーター206 km

Lodygin クレーター210 km

Wilsing クレーター221 km

Timiryazev クレーター320 km

Korolev クレーター324 km

Plummer クレーター328 km

Sternfeld クレーター357 km

Great-circle distances on a sphere of radius 1,737.4 km.

Names and their origins come from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (USGS Astrogeology), retrieved 2026-08-14.
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DATA: IAU / USGS Astrogeology · NASA LRO LOLA