Amaterasu Patera

Amaterasu Patera is a patera, a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is one of the darkest features on Io, and the measurement of its thermal spectrum (its temperature was estimated in 1979 to be 281 K) helped to support an anticorrelation between albedo and temperature for Ionian hotspots.^[1] The feature has darkened further since the first orbit around Jupiter by the Galileo spacecraft.^[2] It is 100 kilometers in diameter and located at 38°06′N 306°30′W / 38.1°N 306.5°W / 38.1; -306.5.^[3] It was named after the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu.^[3] To the north are Kinich Ahau Patera and Dazhbog Patera, and to the west are Manua Patera and Fuchi Patera.^[4]

References

^ J. C. Pearl (1985). "Io: Amaterasu Patera is Hot". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 17: 691. Bibcode:1985BAAS...17..691P.
^ "Galileo". xtec.es. Archived from the original on December 19, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Amaterasu Patera". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.

Lists	Regions Mountains Volcanic Features Quadrangles
Paterae	Ah Peku Amaterasu Asha Babbar Dazhbog Estan Fuchi Gish Bar Kami-Nari Kinich Ahau Loki Manua Maui Mithra Monan Pillan Prometheus Pyerun Ra Reiden Shango Svarog Tawhaki Thomagata Tupan Tvashtar Viracocha
Mountains	Egypt Euboea Silpium Tohil
Lava flows or channels	Tawhaki
Volcanism / Volcanoes	Amirani Masubi Pele Prometheus Surt Thor Zamama
Fluctūs	Kanehekili Fluctus
Plains and plateaus	Danube Planum

Past	Pioneer program Pioneer 10 Pioneer 11 Voyager program Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Galileo Cassini New Horizons
Current	Juno
Planned / On-route	Europa Clipper Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
Proposed	Io Volcano Observer
Cancelled / Concepts	Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Jupiter Europa Orbiter Jupiter Magnetospheric Orbiter FIRE

Other

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