PIA00466: Venus - Large Impact Crater in the Eistla Region

Target Name: Venus Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun) Mission: Magellan Spacecraft: Magellan Instrument: Imaging Radar Product Size: 390 samples x 600 lines Produced By: JPL Producer ID: P38691 Addition Date: 1996-09-26 Primary Data Set: Magellan MIDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA00466.tif (224.1 kB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA00466.jpg (76.46 kB)

Original Caption Released with Image: This Magellan image shows an impact crater in the central Eistla Region of the equatorial highlands of Venus. It is centered at 15 degrees north latitude and 5 degrees east longitude. The image is 76.8 kilometers (48 miles) wide. The crater is slightly irregular in planform and approximately 6 kilometers (4 miles) in diameter. The walls appear terraced. Five or six lobes of radar-bright ejecta radiate up to 13.2 kilometers (8 miles) from the crater rim. These lobes are up to 3.5 kilometers (2 miles) in width and form a "starfish" pattern against the underlying radar-dark plains. The asymmetric pattern of the ejecta suggests the angle of impact was oblique. The alignment of two of the ejecta lobes along fractures in the underlying plains is apparently coincidental. Image Credit: NASA/JPL