Dorsa Smirnov is a

wrinkle ridge A wrinkle ridge is a type of feature commonly found on lunar maria, or basalt plains. These features are low, sinuous ridges formed on the mare surface that can extend for up to several hundred kilometers. Wrinkle ridges are tectonic features cr ...

system at in eastern

Mare Serenitatis Mare Serenitatis (Latin ''serēnitātis'', the "Sea of Serenity") is a lunar mare located to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. Its diameter is . Geology Mare Serenitatis is located within the Serenitatis basin, which is of the Nectarian ep ...

on the

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. It is 222 km long and was named after Soviet geologist

Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov (russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Смирно́в; 16 September 1895 (New Style) — 20 August 1947) was a Soviet geologist and mineralogist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1943). The ridge ...

by the

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in 1976.Dorsa Smirnov
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) The small crater Very is adjacent to the Dorsa.

Dorsa Lister Dorsa Lister is a wrinkle ridge system at on the Moon, in southern Mare Serenitatis. It is 180 km in diameter and was named after English naturalist and physician Martin Lister Martin Lister FRS (12 April 1639 – 2 February 1712) was an En ...

are roughly parallel with Dorsa Smirnov and to the south of them.

Dorsa Aldrovandi Dorsa Aldrovandi is a wrinkle ridge system at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. It is about 127 km long and was named after the 16th century Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. The north end of the feature is at the crater Le Monnier, and ...

are roughly parallel to Dorsa Smirnov and to the east at the edge of the mare.

References

External links

LAC-42Dorsa Smirnov at The Moon Wiki
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