Gold (crater)

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Template:Infobox Mars crater Gold is a crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 20.2° N and 31.3° W. It is 9.0 km in diameter and was named after a town in Pennsylvania, USA.[1]

Gold is famous as being one of several craters showing clear evidence that it was affected by floods of water from Maja Valles on Mars.

References

  1. ^ "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | Gold". usgs.gov. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 4 March 2015.