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Nostromo Chasma

Nostromo Chasma cuts vertically across the terrain in this New Horizons photo, with Ripley Crater in the center.
Feature type	Chasma
Location	Between Oz Terra and Vulcan Planum
Discoverer	New Horizons
Naming	Informal
Eponym	Spaceship in the Alien films

Nostromo Chasma /nɒsˈtroʊmoʊ ˈkæzmə/ is the unofficial name for a rift valley on Pluto's moon Charon. It was named after the fictional spacecraft in the science-fiction/horror film Alien, which in turn was named after the novel by Joseph Conrad.

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• https://web.archive.org/web/20160309101018/http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pdfs/Charon-Map-Annotated.pdf

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