Asha Patera

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

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 8.8°S, 225.7°W. It is named after asha, the Zoroastrian principle of Truth. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.[1][2] Reiden Patera and Kami-Nari Patera can both be found to the west.[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 18, 2007.
  3. ^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.