Dorsa Dana

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Dorsa Dana
Dorsa Dana (moon equatorial region)
Dorsa Dana
position 2.26 °  N , 89.6 °  E Coordinates: 2 ° 15 '36 "  N , 89 ° 36' 0"  E
diameter 82 km
Named after James Dwight Dana
See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

The Dorsa Dana is a group of ridges of the sea on the Earth's moon , named after the American geoscientist James Dwight Dana in 1976 . It has the coordinates 3 ° N / 90 ° E and a mean diameter of 79 km.

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