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Context image credit: NASA/JPL/MOLA
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This THEMIS Image of the Day was first released as part of a look at Martian nomenclature.

Apollinaris Patera

Patera: an irregular crater, or a complex one with scalloped edges. Apollinaris: The Aquae Apollinares is a hot springs northwest of Rome in Etruria. This hot springs location was known to both the Etruscans and the Romans.

Apollonaris Patera is the remains of a caldera located on the top of an old volcano near Gusev Crater. The imageis a mosaic of daytime IR frames.

Nomenclature Fact of the Day:On Europa, another moon of Jupiter,linear features are named for Celtic stone rows, while ring features are named for Celtic stone circles.