Barton crater

Författare/Upphovsman:

Magellan Team (NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Kreditera:

pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/captions/venus/barton.htm/

Kort länk:

https://sewiki.info/b/23db1

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Wikimedia Commons

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Beskrivning:

This 54-km (32-mi) diameter crater is the size at which craters on Venus begin to possess peak-rings instead of a single central peak. The floor of Barton crater is flat and radar-dark, indicating possible infilling by lava flows sometime following the impact. Barton's central peak-ring is discontinuous and appears to have been disrupted or separated during or following the cratering process. The name Barton has been proposed by the Magellan Science Team, after Clara Barton, founder of the U. S. Red Cross; the name is tentative pending approval by the IAU.

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