Peri-Banu is a

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in the northern hemisphere of

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's moon

Enceladus Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn and the 18th-largest in the Solar System. It is about in diameter, about a tenth of that of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It is covered by clean, freshly deposited snow hundreds of meters thick, ...

. Peri-Banu was first discovered in ''

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'' images but was seen at much higher resolution, though near the terminator, by '' Cassini''. It is located at 62° North

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, 322.9° West

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and is 18 kilometers across. The western portion of the crater is largely absent, either buried or disrupted by the eastern margin of

Samarkand Sulci Samarkand Sulci is a region of grooved terrain on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The feature is centered at 30.5° North Latitude, 326.8° West Longitude, and is approximately 383 kilometers long. Samarkand Sulci consists of three part ...

. A large, dome-like structure occupies the interior of the crater, caused by infill of material from Samarkand Sulci or from viscous relaxation. The name comes from Pari-Banou, a genie-woman from one of the tales of the ''

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''; she is an incarnation of beauty who marries

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and helps him fulfill the demands of his father.

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PIA12783: The Enceladus Atlas
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