Al-Mustazi (crater)
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 Al-Mustazi (center) as seen by the Cassini spacecraft on July 14, 2005 |
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| Location | 20.8°S, 198.4°W |
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| Diameter | 10.0 km |
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| Discoverer | Cassini |
| Naming | Az-Zahir; Abbasid Caliph |
Al-Mustazi is an impact crater located on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Al-Mustazi was first observed in Cassini images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 20.8° South Latitude, 198.4° West Longitude, and is ten kilometers across. Cassini observed numerous southwest-northeast trending fractures cutting across the southwest rim of Al-Mustazi, forming canyons several hundred meters deep. These fractures were deflected by the weakened regolith produced by the Al-Mustazi impact.[1] This deflection produced the pattern of radiating fractures seen along the northeastern rim of Al-Mustazi.
Al-Mustazi is named after Az-Zahir, an 13th-century Abbasid caliph and a character in the "The Hunchback’s Tale" from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.
[edit] References
- ^ A. N. Barnash et al. (2006). "Interactions Between Impact Craters and Tectonic Fractures on Enceladus". Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 38 (3): Presentation Num. 24.06.
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