Yunan ( lat. and eng. Yunan ) - 20-km impact crater on the surface of the moon of Saturn - Enceladus . The coordinates of the center are [1] The crater was detected in the Voyager-2 spacecraft photographs, and after some time it was taken down in detail by a Cassini-Huygens probe. This crater is the thirteenth largest on Enceladus, its diameter is 19.7 km [1] . The inside of the crater is not a large dome-shaped structure. It represents its central hill (caused by the relaxation of the surface after an impact). Next to it there are two large craters: Hisham and Duban . The name of the crater received official approval in 2009 [1] .
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 Crater Yunan (center), shot by the Cassini-Huygens space station. The left is the crater Musa , and just below and to the left - Duban | |
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| Diameter | about 19.7 km |
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| Eponym | Yunan |
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Named in honor of Yunan , the character described in the Thousand and One Nights collection of folk tales [1] .
See also
- List of details of the relief of Enceladus
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Enceldus: Yunan crater (English) . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature . International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) (6 November 2014).