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Pasteur Crater is a crater in the Arabia quadrangle of Mars, located at 19.4° north latitude and 335.5° west longitude. It is in diameter and was named after Louis Pasteur, a French chemist. Dark sand dunes are clustered in the southwest of the crater. The orientation of the barchan dunes suggest that they were generated by northeasterly winds. The source of the dune's sand appears to be local. Upwind of the dunes there is a small crater, Euphrates, within Pasteur crater that may have excavated sediments. The dark sediments have formed a patch at Euphrates' base. HiRISE imagery of the intracrater dunes within Pasteur crater over 1 martian year indicate that the dunes are active with sand movement in a southwesterly direction. File:Wikigillmap.jpg|MOLA map, showing Pasteur crater and other nearby craters. Colors indicate elevations. Image:Arabia map.JPG|Map of Arabia quadrangle with major craters. Image:Pasteur Crater Floor.JPG|Pasteur crater floor, as seen by HiRISE. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pasteur (Martian crater)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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