Stickney (crater)

Stickney (crater)
}
Heavily saturated false color image of Stickney with the smaller crater Limtoc within it, as seen by MRO on 23 March 2008.
Feature typeImpact crater
Location1°N 49°W / 1°N 49°W / 1; -49[1]
Diameter9 km (5.6 mi)
DiscovererAsaph Hall
NamingChloe Angeline Stickney Hall
Stickney on Phobos (at left)
(Viking orbiter, 10 June 1977)

Stickney is the largest crater on Phobos, which is a satellite of Mars. It is 9 km (5.6 mi) in diameter, taking up a substantial proportion of the moon's surface.

  1. ^ "Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Stickney on Phobos". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. International Astronomical Union. November 29, 2006.