Pan is the largest
crater
Crater may refer to:
Landforms
*Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet
*Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surfac ...
on
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but ...
's
moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
Amalthea. It is kilometers across and at least 8 kilometers deep, with its center's coordinates being 30°N, 30°W.
[
] It is named after
Pan, the
Greek god of shepherds and the countryside, or the son of
Amalthea and Hermes in some legends.
References
Amalthea (moon)
Impact craters on Jupiter's moons
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