- Svarog Patera
Svarog Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on
Jupiter 's moon Io. It is 124 kilometers in diameter and is located at 48.7°S, 265.7°W. It is named after theRussia n smith godSvarog . Its name was approved by theInternational Astronomical Union in1979 . [cite web
title=IO NOMENCLATURE | work=lnfm1.sai.msu.su
url=http://lnfm1.sai.msu.su/neb/rw/natsat/jup_sat/io/patera.htm
accessdate=October 20
accessyear=2007] [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=65950
accessdate=October 20
accessyear=2007] North of Svarog Patera isLyrcea Planum , north of which isBabbar Patera . To the south isSilpium Mons , and to the east isHermes Mensa . To the southeast arePyerun Patera andEpaphus Mensa . ["NASA World Wind " 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.] Svarog Patera is a Voyager spacecraft-detected hot spot. [cite web
title=Hot Spots on Io: Initial Results from Galileo’s Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer | work=trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov
url=http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/22712/1/97-1236.pdf
accessdate=October 20
accessyear=2007]References
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