List of geological features on Enceladus

This is a list of named geological features on Enceladus. Geological features on Enceladus are named after people and places from Burton's translation of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, also known as .

Planitiae[]

Enceladean plains are called planitiae. They are named after the locations of events in the Arabian Nights.

Planitia	Named after
Diyar Planitia
Sarandib Planitia	Serendib

Dorsa[]

Enceladean ridges are called dorsa. They are named after the locations of events in the Arabian Nights.

Dorsum	Named after
	Cufa

Sulci[]

Sulci are long, parallel grooves. Enceladean sulci are named after the locations of events in the Arabian Nights.

Sulcus	Named after
	Alexandria, Egypt
	Medina, Saudi Arabia
	Yemen
	Al-Andalus
	Baghdad, Iraq
	Boulaq, Egypt
	Cairo, Egypt
	Camphor
	Kashmir
	Damascus, Syria
	Hama, Syria
Harran Sulci	Harran, Turkey
Labtayt Sulci	, possibly Leptis Magna
	Lahij, Yemen
	Makran, Pakistan
	Egypt
	Mosul, Iraq
Samarkand Sulci	Samarkand, Uzbekistan
	Shiraz, Iran
	Sindh, Pakistan

Fossae[]

Fossae are ditches or trenches. Enceladean fossae are named after the locations of events in the Arabian Nights.

Fossa	Named after
	Anbar, Iraq
Bassorah Fossa	Basra, Iraq
	Bishangarh
Daryabar Fossa
Isbanir Fossa

	Khorasan

Rupes[]

On Enceladus, escarpments are called rupes.

Rupes	Named after
	Samaria, from Khudadad and His Brothers

Craters[]

Enceladean craters are named after characters in the Arabian Nights.

Crater	Named after
Ahmad	Ahmad
	Brother of Gharib in "The History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib."
Al-Bakbuk	Al-Bakbuk
Al-Fakik	Al-Fakik
Al-Haddar	Al-Haddar
Al-Kuz	Al-Kuz
Al-Mustazi	Al-Mustazi
Aladdin	Aladdin
Ali Baba	Ali Baba
Ayyub
	Aziz
	Oldest prince in "The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette"
Behram
Dalilah	Dalilah
Duban	Duban
Dunyazad	Dunyazad
Fitnah	Fitnah
Ghanim	Ghanim
Gharib	Gharib in "The History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib."
	Harun al-Rashid
Hassan	Hassan
	Caliph in "The Caliph Hisham and the Arab Youth"
	Character in "Isaac of Mosul and the Merchant"
	Jaʻfar ibn Yahya
Jansha
Julnar	and Her Son King Badr Basim of Persia
	Kamar al-Akmár in "The Ebony Horse"
	Brother of Ali Baba
Khusrau	Sassanid ruler Khosrau II
	Hero of "Maʽaruf the Cobbler and His Wife Fatimah"
Marjanah
	Eunuch in "Nur al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis al-Jalis"
	Slave girl in "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"
Musa	Musa
	Mustafa in Aladdin

Otbah	Otbah and Rayya
	Second prince in "The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette"
Peri-Banu	Peri-Banu
	Youngest princess in "The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette"
Rayya	Otbah and Rayya
	King of Persia in "The Ebony Horse"
Salih	Salih
Samad
Shahrazad	Shahrazad
Shahryar	Shahryar
Shakashik
Sharrkan
Shirin	Shirin
Sindbad	Sindbad
	King of Persian city in "The Tale of the Vizier and the Sage Duban"
	Daughter of Dalilah in "The Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty and Her Daughter Zaynab the Coney-Catcher"
Zumurrud	Zumurrud