Manua Patera

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

Manua Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is 110.5 kilometers in diameter and is located at 35.8°N, 321.7°W. It is named after the Hawaiian sun god Manua. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.[1][2] To the southwest is Fuchi Patera, and to the east is Amaterasu Patera.[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.