Geography on Mars

• The regional organization of martian landscapes

• How martian features are named
• Naming standards vary with the scale of the feature
• Large craters: Dead scientists and authors (e.g., Antoniadi)
• Small craters: Towns and villages on Earth (e.g., Bonneville)
• Large "valles": "Mars" or "star" in various languages (e.g., Ma'adim Vallis, "Mars" in Hebrew)
• Small "valles": Rivers (e.g., Allegheny Vallis)
• A whole new vocabulary to head off glib generalizations about processes
• "Vallis," not valley
• "Mensa," not mesa
• "Mons," not mountain
• "Terra," not area or region
• "Planum," not plateau
• "Planitia," not plain