An index of Martian place names, with links to photos and short articles about Mars after terraforming.

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS

• Chaos = land so jumbled it's indescribable. Mars has a lot of it.
• Chasma = chasm, a canyon carved by catastrophic floods
• Dorsa, dorsae = ridge, ridges
• Fossa, fossae = cracks, straight canyons caused by bulging or shrinkage.
• Mensa, mensae = mesas and cliffy islands
• Mons = mountain
• Planum = plain, plateau
• Planitia = low plain or basin, mostly seas now.
• Patera = wide volcano with a large caldera (crater)
• Regio = region (often dropped from names)
• Sulcus, sulci: folds, wrinkles
• Terra = land (often dropped from names)
• Tholus = conical volcano, steeper than a patera
• Vallis, valles = valley, valleys

1. ACIDALIA, a northern plain, now a lobe of the North Sea
2. AEOLIA, terraforming's triumph
3. ALBA PATERA, a low, broad, northern volcano
4. AMAZONIS, heart of the Martian rainforest
5. AMAZONIS SEA, warm shallow lobe of the North Sea
6. AMPHITRITE PATERA, a volcano on the south shore of Hellas
7. ANTONIADI, a crater-oasis on the Araby-Syrtis border
8. AONIA, Red Mars preserved
9. APOLLINARIS PATERA, a large equatorial volcano, south of Elysium
10. ARABY, the great northern desert once called Arabia Terra
11. ARCADIA, Oregon on Mars
12. ARCTICA, the new polar continent
13. ARES VALLEY, a long desert river
14. ARGYRE SEA, a mammoth basin
15. AROMATUM CHAOS, a water-maze
16. ARSIA MONS, a volcano of Tharsis, rivaling Oympus
17. ARSINOES CHAOS, a water-maze
18. ASCRAEUS MONS, a volcano of Tharsis, rivaling Oympus
19. CANDOR CHASMA, in the north-center of the Mariner complex; now flooded and full of islands;
20. CAPRI CHASMA, a wide, chaotic eastern part of the Mariner canyon complex; now a sound full of islands
21. CASSINI, a great crater in Araby, now an oasis
22. CERAUNIUS THOLUS and CERAUNIUS PATERA, large volcanoes in north Tharsis, by Lake Uranius
23. CERBERUS FOSSAE, a range of canyons and hills in southeast Elysium
24. the CHAOTIC TERRAINS, a fractal landscape
25. CHARITIUM MONTES, the radial mountains south and east of the Argyre Sea
26. CHASMA BOREALE, an ice-covered sound cutting into Arctica almost to the pole.
27. CHRYSE GULF, a shallow sea north of the Mariner canyons
28. CIMMERIA, Red Mars preserved
29. CLARITAS FOSSAE, the unrecognized Andes
30. COPRATES CHASMA, the deepest part of Mariner Canyon, east of Melas
31. CYDONIA, the coast of desert isles
32. the DAEDALUS PLATEAU, cursed by altitude
33. the DELTA, lenticular heaven
34. DEUTERONILUS MENSAE, a Siberian coast
35. DUDEMAN, a crater by Mariner Canyon, now a lake
36. ECHUS CHASMA, a two-mile-high cliff, now a flyers' mecca
37. ELYSIUM, the one true continent
38. EOS CHASMA, southeastern stretch of Mariner Canyon, now wide sound full of islands
39. GANGES CHASMA, a dead-end arm of lower Mariner Canyon, now a wide, deep sound
40. GREAT ESCARPMENT: cliffs roughly girdling Mars, dropping from the Southern Highlands to the North Sea basin. Particularly visible around Isidis Bay and the Amazonis coast
41. GUSEV CRATER, in Aeolia, is now a lake... again.
42. HEBES CHASMA, a deep pit with a central mesa southeast of Echus Chasma and Kasei; the source of the Kasei outbreak. Now a cliffwalled valley with lakes.
43. the HELLAS SEA, a thick-aired basin, now a Terran terrarium
44. HERSCHEL, a large crater, now an oasis northeast of Hellas
45. HESPERIA, a steppe revived at last
46. HUYGENS, a huge crater, now an oasis with a central lake, northwest of Hellas
47. the IAPYGIAN SINK, a fertile mystery
48. ISIDIS BAY, an old impact basin, now a coral sea
49. IUS CHASMA, in the upper Mariner complex; a straight canyon linking Noctis Labyrinthus and Melas Chasma
50. JUVENTA CHASM, a cliffwalled sink in southern Xanthe
51. KASEI VALLEY, prezebra heaven
52. KEPLER, a large crater, now an oasis east of Hellas
53. LOMONOSOV, a large northern crater, now a tundra island
54. LOWELL, a deep double-walled crater, now a large southern oasis
55. LUCUS FOSSAE, now a ridged and grooved equatorial cape
56. the LUNAE PLANUM, a tropical plain--but wet or dry?
57. the LYCUS SULCI, a wrinkled lava coast
58. LYOT, biggest crater of the north, now an island
59. MA'ADIM RIVER, a long southern stream, flowing into Gusev Crater
60. MAJA VALLEY, a canyon in Xanthe, draining Juventa Chasm
61. MALEA PLAIN, a steppe southwest of Hellas; a migration corridor to Argyre
62. MANGALA VALLEY, a river on the edge of life
63. MAREOTIS FOSSAE, a mountain range in Tempe with more ridges than grooves, despite its name
64. MARGARITIFER CHAOS, a large, indescribable mess
65. MARINER CANYONS, less certain than you think
66. the MARINER DELTA, lenticular heaven
67. MAWRTH RIVER, a winding, seasonal stream
68. MEDUSA VALLEY, east end of the Martian jungle
69. MELAS CHASMA, the center of the Mariner canyon complex, now flooded and full of islands.
70. MERIDIA, Terra Meridiani, now an equatorial grass-belt
71. MIE, a northern crater, now a cool, rainy island
72. MTS OF MITCHEL, an icy extension of the South Polar Cap
73. NEPENTHE VALLEY, an equatorial floodplain--the Martian Eden
74. NEREIDIM MONTES, the radial mountains northwest of the Argyre Sea
75. NILI PATERA, a volcano in Syrtis creating a rainshadow
76. the NILO COAST, a vast, cool coastal forest
77. NILOSYRTIS MENSAE, a stormy archipelago
78. the NIRGAL VALLEY, a dry prairie
79. NOACHIA, impact chaos
80. NOCTIS LABYRINTHUS, the Maze of Night at the head of Mariner Canyon
81. NORTH SEA, Mars's mother ocean
82. OLYMPUS, quickly glaciating monster
83. OPHIR CHASMA, north-central arm of Mariner Canyon, now a small sound full of islands
84. ORCUS PATERA, a shattered volcano, now twin islands
85. the OUTFLOW CHANNELS, Mariner Canyon's delta
86. OXIA PALLIS, a crater worn away by the Mariner flood
87. PAVONIS MONS, a volcano of Tharsis, rivaling Oympus
88. PHLEGRA PENINSULA, a rugged peninsula of northern Elysium
89. PROTONILUS MENSAE, a Siberian archipelago
90. SCHIAPARELLI, a great crater in Meridia, now an oasis
91. SHALBATANA VALLEY, an old outflow channel just north of Ganges Chasma; now a river valley
92. SIMUD VALLEY, an outflow channel, now the mouth of Mariner Sound
93. SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS: Noachia, Aonia and Sirena, Cimmeria, Promethea, Hesperia
94. SYRTIS, a green coast rising to dark Mt Nili
95. TEMPE, a Martian Siberia, north of Tharsis
96. THARSIS, a huge plateau rising into space
97. THARSIS THOLUS or MT THARSIS, a large volcano near the east edge of Tharsis where it drops into the Kasei Valleys
98. TITHONIUS CHASMA, a dead-end branch of Mariner Canyon, now much enlarged
99. TIU VALLEY, an outflow channel, now an equatorial sound
100. TRIVIUM CHARONTIS, eastern Elysium's fertile plain
101. TYRRHENA, an equatorial yet alpine plateau
102. UTOPIA PLANITIA, a northern basin, now the Sea of Utopia
103. URANIUS PATERA, a large volcanic vent in north-central Tharsis, now a high-altitude crater lake
104. VASTITAS BOREALIS, the northern sea-basin, now refilled
105. XANTHE, a channeled plain--warm, but how fertile?

Index of Martian place names

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