Venus - Complex Crater 'Dickinson' in NE Atalanta Region
This Magellan image is centered at 74.6 degrees north latitude and 177.3 east longitude, in the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus. The image is approximately 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide at the base and shows Dickinson, an impact crater 69 kilometers (43 miles) in diameter. The crater is complex, characterized by a partial central ring and a floor flooded by radar-dark and radar-bright materials. Hummocky, rough-textured ejecta extend all around the crater, except to the west. The lack of ejecta to the west may indicate that the impactor that produced the crater was an oblique impact from the west. Extensive radar-bright flows that emanate from the crater's eastern walls may represent large volumes of impact melt, or they may be the result of volcanic material released from the subsurface during the cratering event.
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Image details
ID#:
PIA00479
Date added:
1996-11-26
Target:
Venus
Mission:
Magellan
Spacecraft:
Magellan
Instruments:
Radar System
Size:
2500 x 2950 pixels (width x height)
Rating:
Views:
2,019
Full-Res TIFF:
PIA00479.tif (6.04 MB)
Full-Res JPG:
PIA00479.jpg (1.88 MB)
Image credit:
NASA/JPL
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