Pan (crater)

Pan seems huge compared to Amalthea.

Coordinates: 80 ° 0 ′ 0.7 ″  S , 89 ° 59 ′ 35.2 ″  W.

Pan is the largest impact crater on Jupiter's moon Amalthea .

Its diameter is in the range of 100 km and the depth is 8 km. The approximate coordinates of the center are -80.000000, -90.000000. Pan was spotted in the images of the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979 and was later photographed in greater detail by Galileo .

Naming

The crater was named by the IAU in 1979 after Pan the shepherd god .

See also

• Gaea (crater)
• Ida Facula
• Lyctos Facula
• Amalthea (moon)

Web links

• Pan in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS