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List of features on Phobos and Deimos

Phobos and Deimos are small, and, therefore, have only a select few surface features named. Here are some lists of those names.

Table of contents

1 Phobos

1.1 Craters (named for astronomers)
1.2 Ridges

2 Deimos

2.3 Craters (named for writers who mentioned "two moons" of Mars before they were discovered)

Phobos

Craters (named for astronomers)

D'Arrest - after Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest (1822-1875)
Hall - after Asaph Hall (1829-1908), who discovered the moons of Mars
Roche - after Edouard Roche
Sharpless - after Bevan Sharpless (1904-1950)
Stickney - after Angeline Stickney (d. 1938), wife of Asaph Hall
Todd - after David Todd (1845-1912)
Wendell - after Oliver Wendell (1845-1912)

Ridges

Kepler Dorsum - after Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

Deimos

Craters (named for writers who mentioned "two moons" of Mars before they were discovered)

Swift - after Jonathan Swift
Voltaire - after pen name of François-Marie Arouet

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