Viracocha Patera
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A screenshot of an area including Viracocha Patera, from NASA World Wind.
Viracocha Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 59 kilometers in diameter and is located at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. It is named after the Quechua creator god Viracocha. The name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.[1][2] Viracocha Patera is a Voyager spacecraft-detected hot spot.[3] To Viracocha Patera's east-northeast is Mithra Patera, and to the northeast is the mountain Silpium Mons.[4]
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