List of geological features on Ceres
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Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has adopted two themes for naming surface features on Ceres: agricultural deities for craters and agricultural festivals for everything else.
As of 2020, the IAU has approved names for 151 geological features on Ceres: craters, montes, catenae, rupēs, plana, tholi, planitiae, fossae and sulci. In July 2018, NASA released a comparison of physical features found on Ceres with similar ones present on Earth.
Piazzi, named after Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres, is a dark region southwest of Dantu crater in ground-based images that was named before Dawn arrived at Ceres.
Overview of features
Catenae
Craters
Ceres is saturated with impact craters. Many have a central pit or bright spot.
In the first batch of 17 names approved by the IAU, craters north of 20° north latitude had names beginning with A–G (with Asari being the furthest north), those between 20° north and south latitude beginning with H–R, and those further south beginning with S–Z (with Zadeni being the furthest south).
Faculae (bright spots)
A few of the brightest faculae were numbered during the approach of the Dawn spacecraft.
Fossae
Labes
Labyrinthus
Montes
Plana
Planitiae
The three planitiae may be large and largely obliterated craters.
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