CLEOPATRA CRATER ON VENUS - VENERA 15/16 DATA AND IMPACT VOLCANIC ORIGIN CONTROVERSY

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BASILEVSKY, AT [1 ]
IVANOV, BA [1 ]
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[1] OY SCHMIDT EARTH PHYS INST,MOSCOW 123810,USSR
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10.1029/GL017i002p00175
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P [天文学、地球科学];
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Cleopatra structure is a 100–km diameter feature having a morphology similar to that of double–ring basins of the Moon and Mercury and dissimilar to that of volcanic calderas on Mars, Earth, and Venus. The 2.4–km depth of Cleopatra is anomalously large compared to venusian and terrestrial impact craters of equivalent diameters. An impartial summary of the situation is as follows: if Cleopatra is a volcanic caldera, it is a strange caldera; if Cleopatra is an impact crater, it is a strange crater. © 1990 by the Chinese Geophysical Society
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