Pan ( Latin Pan ) is the largest impact crater of Amalthea , the satellite of Jupiter . It is about 100 km in diameter [1] , and its minimum depth is 8 km . It occupies a significant part of the satellite. The approximate coordinates of the center are [1] . Crater Pan was discovered in images of the Voyager-1 spacecraft in 1979, and later it was removed by the Galileo spacecraft, which operated in the Jupiter system from 1995 to 2003.
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 Crater Pan (in the upper right corner) on the image of the Galileo spacecraft (1997) | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 100 km |
| Deepest | about 8000 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Pan - god of forests, patron of hunters and shepherds |
| Location | |
Crater Pan in the picture of Voyager 1 (1979)
The crater is named after Pan - the god of forests, the patron saint of hunters and shepherds, the son of Amalthea and Hermes. This name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1979 [1] .
See also
- Amalthea Surface Parts List
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Pan crater . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature . International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) (September 10, 2014). Date of treatment March 29, 2015. Archived March 29, 2015.