Venus - Multi-Floor Irregular Crater
This Magellan image shows an irregular crater of approximately 14- kilometer (8.7-mile) mean diameter. The crater is actually a cluster of four separate craters that are in rim contact. The noncircular rims and multiple, hummocky floors are probably the result of the breakup and dispersion of an incoming meteoroid during passage through the dense Venusian atmosphere. After breaking up, the meteoroid fragments impacted nearly simultaneously, creating the crater cluster. The area shown is 40 kilometers (25 miles) in width and 76 kilometers (47 miles) in length, it is centered at -21.4 degrees latitude, 335.2 degrees longitude in the northern Lavinia Region of Venus.
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Image details
ID#:
PIA00476
Date added:
1996-11-22
Target:
Venus
Mission:
Magellan
Spacecraft:
Magellan
Instruments:
Radar System
Size:
517 x 592 pixels (width x height)
Rating:
Views:
1,197
Full-Res TIFF:
PIA00476.tif (0.29 MB)
Full-Res JPG:
PIA00476.jpg (0.11 MB)
Image credit:
NASA/JPL
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