Stationes on The Moon
6 named features carry the IAU descriptor Statio — a landing site — the only class named after a human arrival on The Moon. Nowhere else in the mapped Solar System carries the term.
Named
6
of 2,023 named places on The Moon — 0.3%
Largest
0.1 km
Guang Han Gong
Median size
0 km
Across the 4 with a measured diameter
Named between
1970–2024
IAU approval dates
How stationes on The Moon get their names
The IAU assigns each feature class on each world a naming theme. Across the 6 stationes with a recorded origin, 3 categories appear, led by China.
China4India1Latin1
All 6 stationes on The Moon
Every one has its own page, on the surface it sits on.