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Mead Crater

Target Name:  Venus
Spacecraft:  Magellan
Produced by:  Calvin J. Hamilton
Copyright: © Calvin J. Hamilton
(Publisher Permission Request)

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mead.gifGIF988 x 1030819K

Location12.50° Latitude, 57.20° Longitude
Diameter280 kilometer (174 mile)
TypeMulti-ring crater

Mead crater is the largest impact crater on Venus, with a diameter of 280 kilometers (174 miles). The crater has an inner and an outer ring and a small ejecta blanket surrounding the outer ring. The crater floor looks very similar in morphology to the surrounding plain. The dark vertical bands running through the image are artifacts associated with processing the synthetic aperature radar (SAR) data. Illumination is from the left at an incidence angle of 45 deg.

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