Daryabar Fossa: Difference between revisions

'''Daryabar Fossa''' is an east-west trending [[Trough (geology)|trough]] on [[Saturn]]'s moon [[Enceladus (moon)|Enceladus]]. Daryabar Fossa was first seen in ''[[Voyager 2]]'' images, though a small section was seen at much higher resolution by ''[[Cassini-Huygens Mission|Cassini]]''. It is centered at 9.7° North [[Latitude]], 359.1° West [[Longitude]] and is approximately 201 kilometers long. Based on limb profiles of ''Voyager 2'' images, Daryabar Fossa was determined to be a 400-meter deep and 4 kilometers wide (Kargel and Pozio 1996). Daryabar Fossa runs perpendicular to the scarp [[Isbanir Fossa]] and is right-laterally offset 15–20 km by the scarp, suggesting [[Isbanir]] is a [[Geologic fault#Strike-slip faults|strike-slip]] or [[transform fault]] (Rothery 1999).

[[Daryabar]] Fossa is named for the land from which Princess Daryabar came in ''[[One Thousand and One Nights]]''. The word Daryabar is [[Persian language|Persian]] دریابار and means "Seaside".

==References==

*{{cite journal | author=Jeff Kargel and Stefania Poxio | title=The Volcanic and Tectonic History of Enceladus | journal=Icarus | year=1996 | volume=119 | pages=385–404 | doi=10.1006/icar.1996.0026 | issue=2 | bibcode=1996Icar..119..385K}}

*{{cite book | author=Rothery, David A. | title=Satellites of the Outer Planets: Worlds in their own right | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | year=1999 | isbn=0-19-512555-X}}

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