Asha Patera Explained

Asha Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is approximately 108 kilometers in diameter and located at -8.84°N -225.69°W. It is named after asha, the Zoroastrian principle of Truth. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.[1] Reiden Patera and Kami-Nari Patera can both be found to the west.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Asha Patera . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature . 2019-08-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161222050049/https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/421. 2016-12-22. live.
  2. NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.