KUON GEO

Virtanen

Crater, craters · 39.7 km across · 15.64°, 176.74° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約39.7km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Artturi Ilmari; Finnish agricultural biochemist; Nobel laureate (1895-1973).
Source of the name: Finland (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1979 · Other features named after Finland

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 · 5

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。
Virtanen B27.3 km
Virtanen C19.7 km
Virtanen F11.6 km
Virtanen J19.9 km
Virtanen Z34.1 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

What stands next to a place tells you what kind of place it is.
Lacus Luxuriae 湖120 km
Sharonov クレーター146 km
Šafařík クレーター158 km
Buys-Ballot クレーター168 km
Anderson クレーター174 km
Hayford クレーター219 km
Zernike クレーター255 km
Tiselius クレーター265 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