Kinich Ahau Patera

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Kinich Ahau Patera, in a screenshot taken in NASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.
Kinich Ahau Patera, in a screenshot taken in NASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.

Kinich Ahau Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 45 kilometers in diameter and is located at 49.3°N, 311.1°W. It is named after the Mayan sun god Kinich Ahau.[1][2] Dazhbog Patera is located northeast, Amaterasu Patera is located south-southeast, and Manua Patera can be found southwest.[3]

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  1. ^ IO NOMENCLATURE. lnfm1.sai.msu.su. Retrieved on October 19, 2007.
  2. ^ USGS Astro: Planetary Nomenclature: Feature Data Search Results. USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Feature Information. Retrieved on October 19, 2007.
  3. ^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.