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Engelier
Engelier (lower left) within Saragossa Terra.
Diameter503 km (303 mi) [1]
Depth8-9 km [2]
EponymEngelier, character from the Song of Roland

Engelier is a 310-mile (500-kilometers) large crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus in Saragossa Terra. [3] [4] It partially obscures the slightly smaller crater Gerin.

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Notes

  1. ^ Barnett, Amanda; et al. (December 1, 2017). "Global View of Iapetus' Dichotomy". Solar System Exploration. NASA. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
  2. ^ Robuchon, Guillaume; Nimmo, Francis; Roberts, James; Kirchoff, Michelle (July 2011). "Impact basin relaxation at Iapetus". Icarus. 214 (1). Elsevier: 82–90. Bibcode: 2011Icar..214...82R. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.011.
  3. ^ Wilkinson, John (March 2016). The Solar System in Close-Up (1st ed.). Springer. p. 209. ISBN  978-3319276274.
  4. ^ Greeley, Ronald (February 2013). Introduction to Planetary Geomorphology. Cambridge University Press. p. 196. ISBN  978-0521867115. Retrieved 24 April 2017.