Mithra Patera

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A screenshot of an area including Mithra Patera, from NASA World Wind.

Mithra Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 34 kilometers in diameter and is located at Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. It is named after the Persian god of light, Mithra. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1985.[1] To the north is Silpian Mons, and to the east is Pyerun Patera. Located southwest is Viracocha Patera.[2]

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  2. NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.

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