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    Danilova is an impact crater on Venus. It is named after the Russian ballet dancer Maria Danilova. Image Russell, Joel F. (May 1994). Gazetteer of Venusian...
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    the Moon, and Mars. Some impact craters are present, but Venus is similar to Earth in that there are fewer craters than on the other rocky planets that...
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    between and around large craters. The plains predate the heavily cratered terrain, and have obliterated many of the early craters and basins of Mercury;...
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  • toll on her health. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 17. The Danilova crater on Venus is named in her honor. "Beginnings of Russian Ballet". Andros...
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  • 1,624 craters (31.2%)   Venusian: 900 craters (17.3%)   Mercurian: 397 craters (7.6%)   Martian: 1,092 craters (21.0%)   Others: 1,198 craters (23.0%)...
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    Wheatley is a crater on Venus at latitude 16.6, longitude 268 in Asteria Regio. It is 74.8 km in diameter and was named after Phillis Wheatley, the first...
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    Barton crater is a 54-km (32-mi) diameter crater on Venus. It is the size at which craters on Venus begin to possess peak-rings instead of a single central...
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    Meitner is a multiring impact crater on Venus. This impact crater was named after the female Austrian-Swedish physicist, Lise Meitner, in her honour....
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    Ariadne is a crater on Venus. Its central peak serves as the prime meridian of the planet, a status formerly held by Eve Crater until relocated. JPL "What's...
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    crater on Venus. In 1997 it was named for a common female Japanese first name, in accordance with planetary nomenclature rules for Venusian craters under...
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  • Thumbnail for Aurelia (crater)
    Aurelia is a crater on Venus. It has a large dark surface up range from the crater; lobate flows emanating from crater ejecta, and very radar-bright ejecta...
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    Mead is an impact crater on Venus named in honor of the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead crater is the largest impact crater on Venus, with a...
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    Yablochkina is an impact crater on Venus. It was named after Aleksandra Yablochkina. Guide to Magellan Image Interpretation. Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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    Adivar is an impact crater on Venus, named in honor of Turkish writer Halide Edib Adıvar. The crater is located just north of the western Aphrodite highland...
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    Balanchine with his wife, Tamara Geva, and several other dancers (Alexandra Danilova, Nicholas Efimov) went to Germany, but all performances in Berlin were...
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  • Ruth is an impact crater on Venus. The crater, based on data provided by the Magellan spacecraft, has an estimated diameter of 18.5 kilometres (11.5 mi)...
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    Crater Isabella is the second largest impact crater on Venus. The feature is named in honor of the 15th Century queen of Spain, Isabella I of Castile...
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  • Agnesi is a crater on the planet Venus. It was named after Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Italian mathematician; Venusian craters are named after notable women...
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  • Thumbnail for Merit Ptah (crater)
    Merit Ptah is an impact crater on Venus, named in honor of alleged ancient Egyptian chief physician Merit Ptah whose existence was later exposed as a hoax...
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  • Thumbnail for Wanda (crater)
    Wanda is a crater in the Akna Montes on Venus first mapped first by the Soviet Venera 15/16 mission in 1984. It was formed by the impact of an asteroid...
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  • Gregory is a crater on Venus named after Irish playwright Isabella Augusta Gregory by the IAU in 1994. It lies in northern Ovada Regio. Gregory, Gazetteer...
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  • Thumbnail for Addams (crater)
    Addams is a crater on Venus. It was named after Jane Addams. "Addams". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program. Olin, Norma...
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    Cleopatra (initially called Cleopatra Patera) is an impact crater on Venus, in Maxwell Montes. Cleopatra is a double-ring impact basin about 100 kilometers...
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    Riley is a crater on Venus. The crater is 25 kilometres (16 mi) in diameter. The floor of the crater is 580 metres (1,900 feet) below the plains surrounding...
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  • Thumbnail for Maria Celeste (crater)
    Maria Celeste is an impact crater on Venus named in honor of Maria Celeste, the daughter of Galileo Galilei. Basilevsky, Alexander T.; Head, James W. (2002)...
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    Mona Lisa is a crater on Venus at latitude 25.6, longitude 25.1. It is 79.4 km in diameter and was named after Lisa Giacondo, Leonardo da Vinci's model...
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  • Thumbnail for Surface features of Venus
    is dominated by geologic features that include volcanoes, large impact craters, and aeolian erosion and sedimentation landforms. Venus has a topography...
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  • Thumbnail for Buck (crater)
    is a crater in the Navka region of Venus. It has the terraced walls, flat radar-dark floor, and central peak that are characteristic of craters classified...
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  • planet Earth. They may be designated mons (mountain), patera (an irregular crater) or tholus (small mountain or hill) in accordance with the International...
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    Grimke is a crater on Venus at latitude 17.2, longitude 215.3. It is 34.8 km in diameter and is named after Sarah Grimké. v t e...
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