Ah Peku Patera

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Highest resolution image of Ah Peku Patera, taken by Galileo during an encounter with Io in October 1999

Ah Peku Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is 85 kilometers in diameter and is located at

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10°18′N 107°00′W / 10.3°N 107°W / 10.3; -107Coordinates: 10°18′N 107°00′W / 10.3°N 107°W / 10.3; -107. It is named after the Mayan thunder god Ah Peku. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2006.[1] Ah Peku Patera is located on the south end of , north of which is Monan Patera. The eruptive centers Amirani and can be found northwest, as well as Maui Patera. Gish Bar Patera is located toward the northeast.[2] Ah Peku Patera was first detected by the spacecraft Galileo's Solid State Imager and Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. It is considered an active hot spot.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ah Peku Patera". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Archived from the original on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  2. ^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.
  3. ^ "Geologic mapping of the Amirani–Gish Bar region of Io: Implications for the global geologic mapping of Io" (PDF). europa.la.asu.edu. Retrieved October 20, 2007.[dead link]
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