Engelier

Engelier is a 310-mile (500-kilometers) large crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus in Saragossa Terra.[3][4] It partially obscures the slightly smaller crater Gerin.

Engelier
Engelier (lower left) within Saragossa Terra.
Diameter503 km (303 mi)[1]
Depth8-9 km[2]
EponymEngelier, character from the Song of Roland

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Notes

  1. Barnett, Amanda; et al. (December 1, 2017). "Global View of Iapetus' Dichotomy". Solar System Exploration. NASA. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
  2. Robuchon, Guillaume; Nimmo, Francis; Roberts, James; Kirchoff, Michelle (July 2011). "Impact basin relaxation at Iapetus". Icarus. Elsevier. 214 (1): 82–90. Bibcode:2011Icar..214...82R. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.011.
  3. Wilkinson, John (March 2016). The Solar System in Close-Up (1st ed.). Springer. p. 209. ISBN 978-3319276274.
  4. Greeley, Ronald (February 2013). Introduction to Planetary Geomorphology. Cambridge University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0521867115. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
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