Canso (crater)
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| The crater Canso on Mars | |
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| Planet | Mars |
| Coordinates | 21°36′N 60°42′W / 21.6°N 60.7°WCoordinates: 21°36′N 60°42′W / 21.6°N 60.7°W |
| Diameter | 27.4 km |
| Eponym | Canso, Nova Scotia |
Canso is a Martian crater. It lies about 450 kilometres west of the Viking 1 lander, slightly northeast of Lunae Planum, and west of Chryse Planitia, in the Lunae Palus quadrangle. The crater is named after Canso, a fishing town in Nova Scotia. The name was officially adopted in 1988 by the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (IAU/WGPSN).
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Canso Crater North Wall and Floor, as seen by HiRISE.
[edit] References
[1] IAU/WGPSN Planetary Feature Gazetteer Database. USGS Branch of Astrogeology, Flagstaff, Arizona.
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