Goeppert-Mayer (crater)

Goeppert-Mayer

Stereo radar images by Magellan
Planet Venus
Coordinates 59°42′N 26°48′E / 59.7°N 26.8°E / 59.7; 26.8Coordinates: 59°42′N 26°48′E / 59.7°N 26.8°E / 59.7; 26.8
Diameter 33.5 km
Eponym Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Goeppert-Mayer is a crater on the planet Venus. It is 35 kilometers (22 mi) in diameter and lies above an escarpment at the edge of a ridge belt in Southern Ishtar Terra. West of the crater the scarp has more than one kilometer (0.6 miles) of relief.

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