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volcanopele
post Aug 6 2008, 07:27 AM
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Hell freezes over as Iapetus receives new feature names:

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/HotTopics/ind...e-Features.html


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post Aug 6 2008, 10:34 AM
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Thanks VP - nice to see Iapetus becoming Terra Cognita.
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post Aug 6 2008, 04:42 PM
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So the equatorial ridge is now named, but it's broken up into segments and individual peaks. In order of longitude:

Name CLAT CLON DIAM
Tortelosa Montes 0.0 64.7 294.0 ridge west of "Landslide Crater," (Malun)
Toledo Montes 0.0 136.0 1,100.0 Main part of ridge in mid Cassini
Gayne Mons 0.0 176.0 65.0 \
Valterne Mons 0.0 170.6 50.0 \
Haltile Mons 0.0 190.4 45.0 ----- Individual Voyager Mountains ?
Sorence Mons 0.0 193.7 46.0 /
Cordova Mons 0.0 206.2 85.0 /
Carcassone Montes 0.0 216.7 740.0 Voyager Mountain group?
Seville Mons 0.0 346.3 69.0 Mountain in far Eastern Cassini/Western Roncevaux
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- volcanopele   Iapetus Feature Names   Aug 6 2008, 07:27 AM
- - volcanopele   Working on a quick map with names. Won't hav...   Aug 6 2008, 08:00 AM
- - volcanopele   Here be the map:   Aug 6 2008, 08:11 AM
- - jasedm   Thanks VP - nice to see Iapetus becoming Terra Cog...   Aug 6 2008, 10:34 AM
|- - Michael Capobianco   So the equatorial ridge is now named, but it's...   Aug 6 2008, 04:42 PM
- - Rob Pinnegar   They also seem to have split Roncevaux Terra into ...   Aug 7 2008, 12:21 AM
- - Phil Stooke   I haven't seen this yet, but I expect the ...   Aug 7 2008, 01:06 AM
- - scalbers   Nice to see the annotated map. Interesting to see ...   Aug 17 2008, 03:58 PM

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