Occator (crater)
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Occator imaged by Dawn from LAMO. Fractures are associated with the bright spots and some other areas.
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Location | Ceres |
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Diameter | 92 kilometres (57 mi) |
Depth | 4 km |
Naming | After Occator, a helper God of Ceres |
Occator /ɒˈkeɪtər/ is an impact crater located on Ceres that contains "Spot 5", the brightest of the bright spots observed by the Dawn spacecraft. It was known as "Region A" in ground-based images taken by the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea.[1]
The crater was named after Occator, the Roman god of the harrow and a helper to Ceres.[2][3]
On 9 December 2015, scientists reported that the bright spots on Ceres, including those in Occator crater, may be related to a type of salt, particularly a form of brine containing magnesium sulfate hexahydrite (MgSO4·6H2O); the spots were also found to be associated with ammonia-rich clays.[4]
Contents
Views
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Occator PIA19890.jpg
View rendered from
topographic data -
Occator topograpy Dawn CERES Oct 2015.jpg
Topographic map
(October 2015) -
PIA20132-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-Dawn-3rdMapOrbit-HAMO-image69-20151018-crop.jpg
Oblique view
(October 2015) -
PIA20181-Ceres-OccatorCrater-LateralView-20151209.jpg
Lateral view
(December 2015) -
PIA20180-Ceres-OccatorCrater-FalseColors-20151209.jpg
False colors
(December 2015) -
PIA20179-Ceres-OccatorCrater-20151209.jpg
3D-like perspective
(December 2015)
Animations
See also
References
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