Liberalia Mons Explained

Liberalia Mons
Type:	Mountain
Location:	Ceres
Coordinates:	-6.02°N 311.01°W
Discoverer:	Dawn spacecraft team 2015
Eponym:	Liberalia, festival for Ceres, Liber, and Libera in Ancient Rome.^[1]

Liberalia Mons is a mountain on the surface of the dwarf-planet Ceres.^[2]

Liberalia Mons is located in the north-western hemisphere of Ceres. It is to the north-west of Ahuna Mons, the east of Samhain Catenae, and west of Rongo.^[3] Liberalia Mons is the largest mountain on Ceres in terms of base area. It has a diameter of roughly .

Etymology

Liberalia Mons is named after the ancient Roman festival, Liberalia, celebrated on March 17th which celebrates Liber, Libera, and Ceres, the fertility gods. It was informally named such when it was discovered by the Dawn Spacecraft in March 2015 and its name was adopted by the IAU on 14 December 2015^{[4] [5]}

Geology

Liberalia Mons is associated with having a great amount of Sodium carbonate (Na₂CO₃) because the area of an around it was upwelled from beneath the surface of Ceres.^[6] Additionally, some bright materials have been discovered from the mountain and have been unearthed due to the impact of craters.^[7]

See also

• List of geological features on Ceres
• Geology of Ceres

Notes and References

1. Web site: Libera Mons Information. plantarynames.w.usgs.gov.
2. Book: Marchi . Simone . Vesta and Ceres: Insights from the Dawn Mission for the Origin of the Solar System . Raymond . Carol A. . Russell . Christopher T. . 2022-03-31 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-108-47973-8 . en.
3. Web site: Ceres Map. asc-planetarynames-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com. Thomas. Roatsch. 3 March 2021.
4. Web site: Ceres - Liberalia Mons. planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov.
5. Zambon . F. . Raponi . A. . Tosi . F. . De Sanctis . M. C. . McFadden . L. A. . Carrozzo . F. G. . Longobardo . A. . Ciarniello . M. . Krohn . K. . Stephan . K. . Palomba . E. . Pieters . C. M. . Ammannito . E. . Russell . C. T. . Raymond . C. A. . Spectral analysis of Ahuna Mons from Dawn mission's visible-infrared spectrometer . Geophysical Research Letters . 16 January 2017 . 44 . 1 . 97–104 . 10.1002/2016GL071303 . 2017GeoRL..44...97Z . 22 July 2024.
6. Carrozzo . Filippo Giacomo . De Sanctis . Maria Cristina . Raponi . Andrea . Ammannito . Eleonora . Castillo-Rogez . Julie . Ehlmann . Bethany L. . Marchi . Simone . Stein . Nathaniel . Ciarniello . Mauro . Tosi . Federico . Capaccioni . Fabrizio . Capria . Maria Teresa . Fonte . Sergio . Formisano . Michelangelo . Frigeri . Alessandro . Giardino . Marco . Longobardo . Andrea . Magni . Gianfranco . Palomba . Ernesto . Zambon . Francesca . Raymond . Carol A. . Russell . Christopher T. . Nature, formation, and distribution of carbonates on Ceres . Science Advances . 2 March 2018 . 4 . 3 . e1701645 . 10.1126/sciadv.1701645 . 29546235 . 5851657 . 2018SciA....4.1645C .
7. Thangjam . G. . Nathues . A. . Platz . T. . Hoffmann . M. . Cloutis . E. A. . Mengel . K. . Izawa . M. R. M. . Applin . D. M. . September 2018 . Spectral properties and geology of bright and dark material on dwarf planet Ceres . Meteoritics & Planetary Science . en . 53 . 9 . 1961–1982 . 1712.05203 . 10.1111/maps.13044 . 2018M&PS...53.1961T . 1086-9379 . 22 July 2024.