List of features on Phobos and Deimos

Phobos and Deimos are small moons of Mars and therefore have only a select few surface features named. Here are some lists of those names.

Table of contents

1 Phobos 1.1 Craters (named for astronomers) 1.2 Ridges 2 Deimos 2.3 Craters (named for writers who mentioned "two moons" of Mars before they were discovered)

Phobos

Craters (named for astronomers)

• D'Arrest - after Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest (1822-1875)
• Hall - after Asaph Hall (1829-1908), who discovered the moons of Mars
• Roche - after Edouard Roche
• Sharpless - after Bevan Sharpless (1904-1950)
• Stickney - after Angeline Stickney (d. 1938), wife of Asaph Hall
• Todd - after David Todd (1845-1912)
• Wendell - after Oliver Wendell (1845-1912)

Ridges

• Kepler Dorsum - after Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

Deimos

Craters (named for writers who mentioned "two moons" of Mars before they were discovered)

• Swift - after Jonathan Swift
• Voltaire - after pen name of François-Marie Arouet