Svarog Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on

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's moon Io. It is 124 kilometers in diameter and is located at . It is named after the

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n smith god Svarog. Its name was approved by the

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in 1979. Svarog Patera is a

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. North of Svarog Patera is Lyrcea Planum, north of which is

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. To the south is

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, and to the east is Hermes Mensa. To the southeast are Pyerun Patera and Epaphus Mensa.''

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'' 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.

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