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Impact crater Mead on Venus seen by Magellan spacecraft

by

Nasa/JPL/Novapix

Reference

a-ven06-00041

Date

2006-09-30

This Magellan image mosaic shows the largest (275 kilometers in diameter [170 miles]) impact crater on Venus. The crater is located north of Aphrodite Terra and east of Eistla Regio at latitude 12.5 degrees north and longitude 57.4 degrees east, and was imaged during Magellan orbit 804 on November 12, 1990.