Montgolfier

Crater, craters · 83.7 km across · 47.06°, -160.08° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約83.7km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Jacques-Étienne; French inventor (1745-1799); Joseph-Michael; French inventor (1740-1810).

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 · 4

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。

Montgolfier J28.5 km

Montgolfier P36.2 km

Montgolfier W35.3 km

Montgolfier Y41.7 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Woltjer クレーター67 km

Stoletov クレーター118 km

Schneller クレーター191 km

Kulik クレーター194 km

Paraskevopoulos クレーター216 km

Guillaume クレーター285 km

Rowland クレーター304 km

Perkin クレーター323 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