Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedRupes Recta
Rupes (115.9 km) — Latin for "straight cliff" (the straight wall).
- Coordinates
- -21.6748, -7.70189999999997 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Rupes
- Feature type
- Rupes, rupēs
- Feature type code
- RU
- Diameter km
- 115.94827
- Etymology
- Latin for "straight cliff" (the straight wall).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1961
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/5230
- Clean name
- Rupes Recta
- Ethnicity
- Latin
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-95
Primary source