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Unidentified 500 km crater on Oberon moon ??

Widdekind
in Astronomy and Cosmology

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As seen on this site, the Oberon moon of Uranus shows a 6 km peak, protruding from the (lower-left) limb of its Voyager 2 photograph:

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This image of Oberon shows several large impact craters towards the center of the picture. Many of the crater floors are covered by an unknown dark material.
On the bottom-left limb, a high mountain rises 6 kilometers (4 miles) above its surroundings
. Bright rays similar to those seen on Jupiter's moon Callisto, can be found on Oberon's surface.
(Copyright Calvin J. Hamilton)

 

 

 

CONCLUSION (??): This 6 km peak, is actually the central peak (140° east, 25° south), of a crater, which is roughly as wide, as the Mommur Chasma is long — to wit, roughly 500-550 km — and to which there could, conceivably, be some kind of connection (cf. Mercury's Weird Terrain is antipodal to its Caloris Basin).

 

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