Viracocha Patera
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Viracocha Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 61 kilometers in diameter and is located at Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. It is named after the Quechua creator god Viracocha. The name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.[1] Viracocha Patera is a Voyager spacecraft-detected hot spot.[2] To Viracocha Patera's east-northeast is Mithra Patera, and to the northeast is the mountain Silpium Mons.[3]
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