Turgis (crater)

Turgis /ˈtɜːrdʒɪs/ is the largest known crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus.[1][2] It is 580 km in diameter,[3] 40% of the moon's diameter and one of the larger craters in the Solar System. It is named after a Saracen baron, Turgis of Turtelose (Tortosa).[3]

The 580km Turgis crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus.

It is located in Cassini Regio at 16.9°N 28.4°W / 16.9; -28.4.[3] The rim has a scarp about 15 km high that generated a landslide.[4] It is overlain by Malun, the 13th-largest crater on Iapetus.

Gallery

Landslide in Malun crater
Cassini Regio

See also

List of geological features on Iapetus

References

"Turgis". We Name The Stars. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
"Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations: The Iapetus Atlas". Retrieved 2021-03-17.
"Iapetus: Turgis". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
"PIA06171: Giant Landslide on Iapetus". NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute (photojournal). 2004-12-31. Retrieved 2009-01-10.

Regions	Cassini Regio
Terrae	Roncevaux Terra Saragossa Terra
Craters	Abisme Turgis Engelier Gerin
Mountains	Equatorial ridge

Discovery

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Exploration

Past	Pioneer 11 Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Cassini–Huygens
Proposed	Titan Saturn System Mission

Other

Fiction

Moons of Saturn

Listed in approximately increasing distance from Saturn

Ring shepherds

Co-orbitals

Aegaeon

Inner large
(with trojans)

Outer large

Rhea
Titan
Hyperion
Iapetus

Inuit group (13)

Kiviuq group (5)	S/2019 S 1 Kiviuq S/2005 S 4 S/2020 S 1 Ijiraq
Paaliaq group (1)	Paaliaq
Siarnaq group (7)	S/2004 S 31 Tarqeq Siarnaq S/2019 S 14 S/2020 S 3 S/2019 S 6 S/2020 S 5

Gallic group (7)

Norse group (100)

Phoebe group (2)	Phoebe S/2006 S 20

Other prograde moons

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