- Ah Peku Patera
Ah Peku Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on
Jupiter 's moon Io. It is 84 kilometers in diameter and is located at 10.3°N, 107°W. It is named after the Mayan thunder godAh Peku . Its name was adopted by theInternational Astronomical Union in2006 . [cite web
title=USGS Astro: Planetary Nomenclature: Feature Data Search Results | work=USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Feature Information
url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/FeatureNameDetail.jsp?feature=60265
accessdate=October 20
accessyear=2007] Ah Peku Patera is located on the south end ofMonan Mons , north of which isMonan Patera . The eruptive centers Amirani and Maui can be found northwest, as well asMaui Patera .Gish Bar Patera is located toward the northeast. ["NASA World Wind " 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.] Ah Peku Patera was first detected by the spacecraft Galileo's Solid State Imager and Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. It is considered an active hot spot. [cite web
title=Geologic mapping of the Amirani–Gish Bar region of Io: Implications for the global geologic mapping of Io | work=europa.la.asu.edu
url=http://europa.la.asu.edu/pgg/associates/members/williams/gw/pdf/2007WKCJS.pdf
accessdate=October 20
accessyear=2007]References
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