Estan Patera

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A screenshot of an area on Io including Estan Patera, from NASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.
A screenshot of an area on Io including Estan Patera, from NASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.

Estan Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is 95 kilometers in diameter and located at 21.6°N, 87.7°W. It is named after the Hittite sun god Estan. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2006.[1] It is located at the northern base of the 11-kilometer mountain Gish Bar Mons. Located west-northwest is Skythia Mons, and to the southwest is Monan Mons, at the northern and southern ends of which are Monan Patera and Ah Peku Patera.[2]

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  1. ^ USGS Astro: Planetary Nomenclature: Feature Data Search Results. USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Feature Information. Retrieved on October 20, 2007.
  2. ^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.