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Seven New Names Approved for Paterae on Mars
16 October 2017
The IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature approved names for seven features on Mars:
Olympus Paterae
,
Apollo Patera
,
Athena Patera
,
Dionysus Patera
,
Hermes Patera
,
Hera Patera
, and
Zeus Patera
. For more information, see the map of
MC-9
in the
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.
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