Fuchi Patera

Fuchi Patera, in a screenshot taken in NASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.

Fuchi Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is approximately 66 kilometers in diameter and is located at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.. It is named after the Ainu fire goddess, Kamuy Fuchi. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.^[1] Manua Patera is located north-northeast, and Amaterasu Patera is located northeast.^[2]

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