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Gordii Fossae
Gordii Fossae, also tied to Sulci Gordii and Gordii Dorsum, is an IAU-approved (2000) system of troughs on Mars, about 339 km across, centered at 14.83°N, 232.40°E in quad MC-09, named from a classical albedo feature.
Gorgonum Chaos
Gorgonum Chaos, a chaos terrain in Terra Sirenum, Mars, about 150 km across, IAU-named in 1985 from an Antoniadi albedo feature; known for dense gullies and ancient lake and groundwater evidence.
Gortyna Flexus
Gortyna Flexus is a 940 km cycloidal ridge (flexus) on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered at 42.1°S, 144.6°W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for the Cretan place where Zeus brought Europa.
Goya (Mercurian crater)
Goya is an impact crater on Mercury about 135 km across, located at 6.79° south latitude and named in 1976 for the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya.
Graff (Martian crater)
Graff is a large impact crater on Mars, Gazetteer feature ID 2234, about 154-158 km across, centered near -21.18°, 153.81° E; named for German astronomer Kasimir Graff (1878-1950), IAU-approved 1973.
Graham Patera
Graham Patera is a 75 km patera on Venus at 6°S, 6°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and renamed from Graham crater for American dancer Martha Graham (1894-1991).
Grainger (Mercurian crater)
Grainger crater, an IAU-approved 113-km impact crater on Mercury at 44.09S, 255.19W, approved April 24, 2012, named for Australian-born composer Percy Grainger under the planet's artist-naming convention.
Gram Montes
Gram Montes is a 260-km mountain range on Titan near 10S, 208W, IAU-approved December 5, 2011, one of six montes named then for Middle-earth mountains from Tolkien's novels, fifth longest of Titan's 16 named montes.
Granicus Valles
Granicus Valles, a ~750-km-long Martian outflow channel system west of Elysium Mons, carved by both lava and water during the Amazonian epoch, IAU-named 1982 after an ancient Turkish river.
Grechukha Tholi
Grechukha Tholi, a 200 km tholus (domical volcanic hill group) on Venus at 8.6 S, 255.8 E, IAU-approved 2000, named for a Ukrainian field deity; among Venus's largest tholi.
Greeley (Martian crater)
Greeley crater, a 457-km-wide ancient impact crater in Noachis Terra, Mars, between Argyre and Hellas; named by the IAU in 2015 for planetary geologist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011).
Greenaway (Venusian crater)
Greenaway is a 93-kilometer-wide peak-ring impact crater on Venus in its northern equatorial region, named by the IAU in 1991 for illustrator Kate Greenaway.
Grian Patera
Grian Patera is a roughly 70–88 km wide volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at about 12°S, 12°W, IAU-named in 2007 for a Celtic solar goddess, with Galileo-observed outburst activity.
Grifo Rupes
Grifo Rupes, a 783 km lobate scarp (thrust-fault cliff system) on Mercury in quadrangle H-10, centered at 7.90°, 354.62°; IAU-approved 2019, named for the Portuguese ship of D. João de Castro's 1538 magnetic survey.
Grimaldi (crater)
Grimaldi is a dark-floored, double-ring impact basin about 400 km across on the Moon's western near side, near Oceanus Procellarum, named for the 17th-century astronomer Francesco Maria Grimaldi.
Grimr (crater on Callisto)
Grimr is a 103.20-km-diameter IAU-approved impact crater on Callisto at 41.50°N, 214.60°W, named in 1979 after a Norse name for Odin, within the size range of pit and dome crater morphologies.
Gringauz (Martian crater)
Gringauz is a 71.02 km IAU-named impact crater on Mars at 20.67°S, 324.30°E, approved July 1, 2013 for Russian cosmophysicist Konstantin I. Gringauz (1918–1993); its layered, channel-bearing floor indicates sedimentary fill.
Grjótá Valles
Grjótá Valles is a 343.77-km-long valley system in Elysium Planitia, Mars, one of four Amazonian-aged fissure-headed catastrophic flood channels, IAU-named in 2006 for an Icelandic river, formed by repeated flooding from Cerberus Fossa.
Grönland Rupes
Grönland Rupes (Gronland Rupes) is a 276-km lobate scarp on Mercury near the equator, IAU-approved August 18, 2026, named for the German research ship Grönland of the 1868 first German arctic expedition.
Gruemberger (lunar crater)
Gruemberger is a 91.50-km-wide IAU-named impact crater on the Moon's southern highlands, centered at 67.04°S, 10.30°W, near Moretus, Short, Cysatus, and Newton; named via Blagg and Müller's 1935 Named Lunar Formations.
Grumman Labyrinthus
Grumman Labyrinthus, a Titan labyrinth terrain, largest of 25 named labyrinthi at 540 km, in south Xanadu at 35.3S 106.8W; IAU-named 2017 after a Dune planet; karst-like organic plateau with closed valleys.
Guaraci Fluctus
Guaraci Fluctus is a 92-km lava flow field on Jupiter's moon Io at 17.57°S, 22.64°W, first seen active by Juno JIRAM in February 2019, named for the Guarani sun god in 2025, with two ~100-km flows imaged in 2024.
Gui Ye Chasma
Gui Ye Chasma: a 210 km chasma (rift canyon) on Venus at 9.0S, 337.1E, IAU-named in 1997 for a Chinese moon fairy; among the smallest of Venus's 63 named chasmata.
Guinevere Planitia
Guinevere Planitia is a large lowland plain on Venus, one of the planet's major planitiae, named after King Arthur's wife Guinevere; Magellan radar showed its plains are volcanic.
Gula Mons
Gula Mons is a large shield volcano on Venus in western Eistla Regio, about 3 km high and 276 km across, IAU-named in 1982 for a Babylonian earth mother, with summit calderas at either end of a summit rift.
Gulaim Fossae
Gulaim Fossae, a Venusian fossa system (long, narrow tectonic depressions), 800 km across, centered at 5°S, 329°E; IAU-approved 1997, named for a Karakalpak amazon leader.
Gunda Planitia
Gunda Planitia is a 1,200 km wide lowland plain (planitia) on Venus at 16°S, 267°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for an Abkhazian epic heroine; the Gunda Formation volcanic plains unit is named after it.
Gunntro Catena
Gunntro Catena, a 149 km crater chain (catena) on Jupiter's moon Callisto, IAU-named in 1997 for a Norse river, likely formed by a comet tidally disrupted by Jupiter like Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Gurshi Mons
Gurshi Mons is a 210-km-diameter mons on Venus at 47.5°S, 58.5°E in the Agnesi quadrangle (V-45), named for a Buryatian fishing deity and adopted by the IAU in 1997; it is domical, type B, and one of few V-45 montes not adjacent to ribbon tessera.
Gusev (crater)
Gusev is a 160 km wide impact crater on Mars at the outlet of Ma'adim Vallis, and the landing site of NASA's Spirit rover from 2004 to 2010.