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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]
References
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"Babbar Patera". USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Feature Information. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
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"io.pdf" (PDF). astrogeology.usgs.gov. Retrieved October 20, 2007.
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NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.
