Editing Planetary nomenclature (section)

==== [[Mars]] ====
[[Image:Karte Mars Schiaparelli MKL1888.png|thumb|200px|Early map of Mars by Giovanni Schiaparelli, which depicts classical albedo features]]

{| class="wikitable"
! Feature type
! Naming convention
|-
| Large craters
| Deceased scientists who have contributed to the study of Mars; writers and others who have contributed to the lore of Mars
|- 
| Small craters
| Villages of the world with a population of less than 100,000.
|- 
| Large valles
| Name for Mars/star in various languages
|- 
| Small valles
| Classical or modern names of rivers
|- 
| Other features
| From nearest named albedo feature on [[Giovanni Schiaparelli|Schiaparelli]] or [[Eugene Antoniadi|Antoniadi]] maps. See [[Classical albedo features on Mars]] for a list.
|}

When [[space probe]]s have landed on Mars, individual small features such as rocks, dunes, and hollows have often been given [[list of rocks on Mars|informal names]]. Many of these are frivolous: features have been named after [[ice cream]] (such as [[Cookies and Cream|Cookies N Cream]]); [[cartoon]] characters (such as [[SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob SquarePants]] and [[Patrick Star|Patrick]]); and 1970s music acts (such as [[ABBA]] and the [[Bee Gees]]).<ref>{{cite news |last=Chong |first=Jia-Rui |date=October 9, 2005 |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05282/584655.stm |title=Map of Mars fills up with strange names |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=April 18, 2008}}</ref>