Liberalia Mons

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Liberalia Mons
Feature typeMountain
Location Ceres
Coordinates 6°01′N48°59′W / 6.02°N 48.99°W / 6.02; -48.99 [1]
Diameter90km [1]
Discoverer Dawn spacecraft team
2015
Eponym Liberalia, festival for Ceres, Liber, and Libera in Ancient Rome. [2]

Liberalia Mons is a mountain on the surface of the dwarf planet and large asteroid Ceres. [3] It is located in Ceres's northern hemisphere; it is located north-west of Ahuna Mons, east of Samhain Catenae, and west of Rongo. [4] Liberalia Mons is the largest mountain on Ceres in terms of base area. It has a diameter of roughly 90 kilometres (56 mi).

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Etymology

Liberalia Mons is named after the ancient Roman festival, Liberalia, celebrated on 17 March 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 [5] [6]

Geology

Liberalia 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. [7] Additionally, some bright materials have been discovered from the mountain and have been unearthed due to the impact of craters. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Liberalia Mons". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program. (Center Latitude: 6.02°, Center Longitude: 311.01°; Planetocentric, +East)
  2. ↑ "Libera Mons Information". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Roatsch, Thomas (3 March 2021). "Ceres Map" (PDF). asc-planetarynames-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com.
  5. ↑ "Ceres - Liberalia Mons". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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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