Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedVallis Snellius
Vallis (640.0 km) — Named from nearby crater.
- Coordinates
- -30.9262, 57.8382 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Vallis
- Feature type
- Vallis, valles
- Feature type code
- VA
- Diameter km
- 640
- Etymology
- Named from nearby crater.
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1964
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/6301
- Clean name
- Vallis Snellius
- Ethnicity
- The Netherlands (Dutch)
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-98
Primary source