Dorsum Higazy
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Dorsum Higazy is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Imbrium
on the Moon
. It is 60 km long and was named after Riad Higazy
in 1976.
Mare Imbrium
Mare Imbrium, Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", is a vast lunar mare filling a basin on Earth's Moon and one of the larger craters in the Solar System. Mare Imbrium was created when lava flooded the giant crater formed when a very large object hit the Moon long ago...
on the Moon
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
. It is 60 km long and was named after Riad Higazy
Riad Higazy
Riad Abdel-Magid Higazy was an Egyptian earth scientist.The wrinkle ridge Dorsum Higazy on the Moon is named after him....
in 1976.