Svarog Patera
{{Short description|Complex crater with scalloped edges on Jupiter's moon Io}}
Svarog Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is 124 kilometers in diameter and is located at {{coord|48.66|S|265.74|W|globe:io|name=Svarog Patera}}. It is named after the Russian smith god Svarog. Its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.{{cite web |
title=IO NOMENCLATURE |
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accessdate=October 20, 2007 }} Svarog Patera is a Voyager spacecraft-detected hot spot.{{cite web |
title=Hot Spots on Io: Initial Results from Galileo's Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer |
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accessdate=October 20, 2007 }} North of Svarog Patera is Lyrcea Planum, north of which is Babbar Patera. To the south is Silpium Mons, and to the east is Hermes Mensa. To the southeast are Pyerun Patera and Epaphus Mensa.NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.