Liberalia Mons is a mountain on the surface of the dwarf-planet Ceres.[2]
| Feature type | Mountain |
|---|---|
| Location | Ceres |
| Coordinates | 6°01′S 311°01′E / 6.02°S 311.01°E |
| Discoverer | Dawn spacecraft team 2015 |
| Eponym | Liberalia, festival for Ceres, Liber, and Libera in Ancient Rome.[1] |
Liberalia Mons is located in the north-western hemisphere of Ceres. It is to the north-west of Ahuna Mons, the east of Samhain Catenae, and west of Rongo.[3] Liberalia Mons is the largest mountain on Ceres in terms of base area. It has a diameter of roughly 90 kilometres (56 mi).
Etymology
editLiberalia Mons is named after the ancient Roman festival, Liberalia, celebrated on March 17th which celebrates Liber, Libera, and Ceres, the fertility gods. It was informally named such when it was discovered by the Dawn Spacecraft in March 2015 and its name was adopted by the IAU on 14 December 2015[4][5]
Geology
editLiberalia Mons is associated with having a great amount of Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) because the area of an around it was upwelled from beneath the surface of Ceres.[6] Additionally, some bright materials have been discovered from the mountain and have been unearthed due to the impact of craters.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Libera Mons Information". plantarynames.w.usgs.gov.
- ^ Marchi, Simone; Raymond, Carol A.; Russell, Christopher T. (31 March 2022). Vesta and Ceres: Insights from the Dawn Mission for the Origin of the Solar System. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-47973-8.
- ^ Roatsch, Thomas (3 March 2021). "Ceres Map" (PDF). asc-planetarynames-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com.
- ^ "Ceres - Liberalia Mons". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov.
- ^ Zambon, F.; Raponi, A.; Tosi, F.; De Sanctis, M. C.; McFadden, L. A.; Carrozzo, F. G.; Longobardo, A.; Ciarniello, M.; Krohn, K.; Stephan, K.; Palomba, E.; Pieters, C. M.; Ammannito, E.; Russell, C. T.; Raymond, C. A. (16 January 2017). "Spectral analysis of Ahuna Mons from Dawn mission's visible-infrared spectrometer". Geophysical Research Letters. 44 (1): 97–104. Bibcode:2017GeoRL..44...97Z. doi:10.1002/2016GL071303. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ Carrozzo, Filippo Giacomo; De Sanctis, Maria Cristina; Raponi, Andrea; Ammannito, Eleonora; Castillo-Rogez, Julie; Ehlmann, Bethany L.; Marchi, Simone; Stein, Nathaniel; Ciarniello, Mauro; Tosi, Federico; Capaccioni, Fabrizio; Capria, Maria Teresa; Fonte, Sergio; Formisano, Michelangelo; Frigeri, Alessandro; Giardino, Marco; Longobardo, Andrea; Magni, Gianfranco; Palomba, Ernesto; Zambon, Francesca; Raymond, Carol A.; Russell, Christopher T. (2 March 2018). "Nature, formation, and distribution of carbonates on Ceres". Science Advances. 4 (3): e1701645. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.1645C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1701645. PMC 5851657. PMID 29546235.
- ^ Thangjam, G.; Nathues, A.; Platz, T.; Hoffmann, M.; Cloutis, E. A.; Mengel, K.; Izawa, M. R. M.; Applin, D. M. (September 2018). "Spectral properties and geology of bright and dark material on dwarf planet Ceres". Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 53 (9): 1961–1982. arXiv:1712.05203. Bibcode:2018M&PS...53.1961T. doi:10.1111/maps.13044. ISSN 1086-9379. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
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