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Patera on Io
Babbar Patera, located in the top-left corner of a screenshot from NASA World Wind.
Babbar Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 86 kilometers in diameter and is located at 39°48′S 272°00′W / 39.8°S 272°W / -39.8; -272. It is named after a Sumerian sun god, and its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.[1] Some scarps near Babbar Patera may represent faults.[2] Immediately south of Babbar Patera is the plateau Lyrcea Planum, and further south is Svarog Patera. To the east is the mountain Egypt Mons.[3]
- ^ "Babbar Patera". USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Feature Information. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
- ^ "io.pdf" (PDF). astrogeology.usgs.gov. Retrieved October 20, 2007.
- ^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.
