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Asha Patera

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Asha Patera, in a screenshot taken in NASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.

Asha Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is approximately 108 kilometers in diameter and located at 8°50′S 225°41′W / 8.84°S 225.69°W / -8.84; -225.69 (Asha Patera). It is named after asha, the Zoroastrian principle of Truth. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.[1] Reiden Patera and Kami-Nari Patera can both be found to the west.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Asha Patera". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  2. ^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.
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