PIA00476: Venus - Multi-Floor Irregular Crater
 Target Name:  Venus
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Magellan
 Spacecraft:  Magellan
 Instrument:  Imaging Radar
 Product Size:  517 x 592 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P38290
 Addition Date:  1996-11-22
 Primary Data Set:  Magellan MIDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00476.tif (294.2 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00476.jpg (109.8 kB)

Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format (possibly reduced in size from original)

Original Caption Released with Image:

This Magellan image shows an irregular crater of approximately 14- kilometer (8.7-mile) mean diameter. The crater is actually a cluster of four separate craters that are in rim contact. The noncircular rims and multiple, hummocky floors are probably the result of the breakup and dispersion of an incoming meteoroid during passage through the dense Venusian atmosphere. After breaking up, the meteoroid fragments impacted nearly simultaneously, creating the crater cluster. The area shown is 40 kilometers (25 miles) in width and 76 kilometers (47 miles) in length, it is centered at -21.4 degrees latitude, 335.2 degrees longitude in the northern Lavinia Region of Venus.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-11-22