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PIA00479: Venus - Complex Crater 'Dickinson' in NE Atalanta Region
 Target Name:  Venus
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Magellan
 Spacecraft:  Magellan
 Instrument:  Imaging Radar
 Product Size:  2500 x 2950 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P39716
 Addition Date:  1996-11-26
 Primary Data Set:  Magellan MIDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00479.tif (6.043 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00479.jpg (1.881 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This Magellan image is centered at 74.6 degrees north latitude and 177.3 east longitude, in the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus. The image is approximately 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide at the base and shows Dickinson, an impact crater 69 kilometers (43 miles) in diameter. The crater is complex, characterized by a partial central ring and a floor flooded by radar-dark and radar-bright materials. Hummocky, rough-textured ejecta extend all around the crater, except to the west. The lack of ejecta to the west may indicate that the impactor that produced the crater was an oblique impact from the west. Extensive radar-bright flows that emanate from the crater's eastern walls may represent large volumes of impact melt, or they may be the result of volcanic material released from the subsurface during the cratering event.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-11-26