Maria Celeste (crater)

{{short description|Crater on Venus}}

{{Infobox feature on celestial object

| name = Maria Celeste

| image = Maria Celeste crater on Venus.png

| caption = Radar image of Maria Celeste

| location = Venus

| coordinates = {{coord|23.4|N|140.4|E|globe:venus_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}{{cite journal |last1=Basilevsky |first1=Alexander T. |last2=Head |first2=James W. |title=Venus: Analysis of the degree of impact crater deposit degradation and assessment of its use for dating geological units and features |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |date=2002 |volume=107 |issue=E8 |page=5061 |url=http://www.planetary.brown.edu/pdfs/2712.pdf |accessdate=7 December 2019 |publisher=American Geophysical Union|doi=10.1029/2001JE001584 |bibcode=2002JGRE..107.5061B |doi-access=free }}

| diameter = 96.6 km

| eponym = Maria Celeste

}}

Maria Celeste is an impact crater on Venus named in honor of Maria Celeste, the daughter of Galileo Galilei.{{cite book |last1=Cattermole |first1=Peter |last2=Moore |first2=Patrick |title=Atlas of Venus |date=1997 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-49652-0 |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3hsaELH9bUC |accessdate=7 December 2019 |language=en}}