Dorsum Gast is a wrinkle ridge at in

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 epo ...

on the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...

. It is 65 km long and was named after American geochemist and geologist

Paul Werner Gast Paul Werner Gast (September 11, 1930 – May 16, 1973) was an American geochemist and geologist. He was born in Chicago to German immigrants and attended Wheaton College, Illinois, whence he graduated in 1952. He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia Un ...

in 1973.

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LAC-41LTO-41B3 Joy
Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (shows northern Dorsum Gast)
LTO-41C2 Galen
Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (shows southern Dorsum Gast) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gast Dorsum Ridges on the Moon Mare Serenitatis