Fuchi Patera is a

patera In the material culture of classical antiquity, a ''patera'' () or ''phiale'' ( ) is a shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl. It often has a bulbous indentation ('' omphalos'', "belly button") in the center underside to facilitate holding it, ...

, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on

Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...

's moon Io. It is approximately 66 kilometers in diameter and is located at . It is named after the Ainu fire goddess,

Kamuy Fuchi Kamuy-huci (カムイフチ, ''Kamui Fuchi'') is the Ainu '' kamuy'' (''goddess'') of the hearth. Her full name is Apemerukoyan-mat Unamerukoyan-mat (''Rising Fire Sparks Woman/ Rising Cinder Sparks Woman''), and she is also known as Iresu Kamuy ( ...

. Its name was adopted by the

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in 1979.

Manua Patera Manua Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 110 kilometers in diameter and is located at . It is named after the Hawaiian sun god Manua. Its name was adopted by the International Astrono ...

is located north-northeast, and

Amaterasu Patera Amaterasu Patera is a ''patera'', a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is one of the darkest features on Io, and the measurement of its thermal spectrum (its temperature was estimated in 1979 to be 281 K) helped to sup ...

is located northeast.''

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'' 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.

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