The Danube Plateau ( lat. Danube Planum ) is a rift table mountain on the surface of Jupiter’s satellite Io [1] , located on the driven hemisphere, at coordinates 22.73 ° S 102.56 ° E, southwest of Pele volcano. The Danube was officially named the International Astronomical Union in 1985.
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The diameter of the Danube plateau is 244 km, the height is 5.5 km [2] . The mountain is divided by a canyon with a width of 15 to 25 km, going from the northeast to the southwest and dissecting the Danube into two main mountains, western and eastern; in addition, there are several more blocks on the southern edge [2] . The outer boundary of the plateau is marked by cliffs from 2.6 to 3.4 km high. Along the base of the western part of the plateau, traces of landslides in the form of deposits from landslides are visible [2] . On the northern and southern edges of the Danube are two pateras . In particular, the northern volcano Pele is one of the most active volcanoes of Io. One of the faults forming the Danube can act as a channel for magma rising to the surface of Pele [3] .
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- ↑ 1 2 Hargitai, Henrik Io Mountain Database - Mountain at: 258s22 . Io Mountain Database . Date of treatment February 14, 2010. (English)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Schenk, P .; et al. The Mountains of Io: Global and Geological Perspectives from Voyager and Galileo (English) // Journal of Geophysical Research : journal. - 2001. - Vol. 106 , no. E12 . - P. 33201-33222 . - DOI : 10.1029 / 2000JE001408 . - . (eng.)
- ↑ 1 2 Radebaugh, J .; et al. Observations and temperatures of Io's Pele Patera from Cassini and Galileo spacecraft images (English) // Icarus : journal. - Elsevier , 2004 .-- Vol. 169 . - P. 65-79 . - DOI : 10.1016 / j.icarus.2003.10.019 . - . (eng.)