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has gloss | eng: Viracocha Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiters moon Io. It is about 59 kilometers in diameter and is located at . It is named after the Qechua sun god Viracocha. The name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. Viracocha Patera is a Voyager spacecraft-detected hot spot. To Viracocha Pateras east-northeast is Mithra Patera, and to the northeast is the mountain Silpium Mons. |
lexicalization | eng: Viracocha Patera |
instance of | c/Surface features of Io |
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