Astronomy:Argentea Planum

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Short description: Plateau on Mars
Argentea Planum
Aregntea Planum, as seen by a NASA probe
Feature typePlateau
Diameter1,370 km

The Argentea Planum is a plateau on the surface of Mars, located with the planetocentric coordinate system at -63.86 north latitude and 337.89° east longitude, measuring 1,370.64 km in diameter. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 2003 and refers to one of the albedo characteristics on Mars.[1][2][3]

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References

  1. Argentea Planum Diccionario geográfico de nomenclatura planetaria. Programa de Investigación de Astrogeología del USGS.
  2. Antoniadi, EM. Librairie Scientifique, Hermann et Cie.. Mapa de características de albedo de Marte, (láminas 2-5), en La Planète Mars, 1930.
  3. "Argentea Planum" (in en-US). https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia21794-argentea-planum/.