Peace Vallis [SEP] located on astronomical body
Peace Vallis
Peace Vallis is an valley network in Gale Crater in the Aeolis quadrangle on the planet Mars; it appears to have been carved by fluids, perhaps water. The valley 'flows' southeast down out of the hills of "Gale Crater" to Aeolis Palus below near "Mount Sharp" and is centered . "Peace Vallis" is near the landing site ("Bradbury Landing") of the "Curiosity" rover which started studying the valley in 2012. The name, "Peace Vallis", was
and the Amor-type 1036 Ganymed.
Honors.
Awards
- Foreign membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1953)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1954)
- Bruce Medal (1955)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1958)
Named after him
- Asteroid 1501 Baade
- The crater Baade on the Moon
- Vallis Baade, a vallis (valley) on the Moon
- One of the two Magellan telescopes