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Radar image of Dickinson crater |
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| Coordinates | 74. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. 6° N, 177. 2° E |
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| Diameter | 69 km |
| Eponym | Emily Dickinson |
Dickinson crater is located at 74. Geometry, a diameter of a Circle is any straight Line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose Endpoints are on the In the broadest sense the term impact crater can be applied to any depression natural or manmade resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with larger body 6 degrees north latitude and 177. 2 east longitude, in the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus. The VENUS ( V ictoria E xperimental N etwork U nder the S ea project is a cabled sea floor observatory operated by the University It is 69 kilometers (43 miles) in diameter. The crater is complex, characterized by a partial central ring and a floor flooded by radar-dark and radar-bright materials. Hummocky, rough-textured ejecta extend all around the crater, except to the west. The lack of ejecta to the west may indicate that the impactor that produced the crater was an oblique impact from the west. Extensive radar-bright flows that emanate from the crater's eastern walls may represent large volumes of impact melt, or they may be the result of volcanic material released from the subsurface during the cratering event.
The crater was named after Emily Dickinson, an American poet.