Viracocha Patera

Viracocha Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 59 kilometers in diameter and is located at 61.8°S, 280.1°W. It is named after the Qechua sun god Viracocha. The name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. [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=66567
accessdate=October 20
accessyear=2007] Viracocha 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] To Viracocha Patera's east-northeast is Mithra Patera, and to the northeast is the mountain Silpium Mons. ["NASA World Wind" 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.]

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