Monan Patera

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Highest resolution image of Monan Patera, acquired by Galileo during an encounter with Io in October 1999

Monan Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 137 kilometers in diameter and is located at

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19°49′N 104°49′W / 19.82°N 104.81°W / 19.82; -104.81[1]Coordinates: 19°49′N 104°49′W / 19.82°N 104.81°W / 19.82; -104.81[1]. It is named after , a god in Brazilian mythology that destroyed the world with fire and floods. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1997.[1]

Monan Patera forms an unusual worm-shaped depression at the north end of the elongate mountain , south of which is Ah Peku Patera. To the west is the eruptive center Amirani, and to the north is . To the east are Gish Bar Patera, , and Estan Patera.[2] Monan Patera's similar north and south margins indicate it may have formed as a pull-apart basin and subsequently was filled with lava.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Monan Patera". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
  2. ^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.
  3. ^ Jani Radebaugh; Laszlo P. Keszthelyi; Alfred S. McEwen; Elizabeth P. Turtle; et al. (2001). "Paterae on Io: A new type of volcanic caldera?" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research. 106: 33, 005–33, 020. Bibcode:2001JGR...106...33D. doi:10.1029/2000JA002010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2003-10-30.
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