| Swift | |
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Moon/Planet of Origin |
Phobos |
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Eponym |
Jonathan Swift |
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Neighboring Named Geographical Features |
Voltaire crater |
Swift is a crater on the satellite of Mars, Deimos. This crater was named after Jonathan Swift, who made the hypothesis of the existence of the moons of Mars. It is one of the two craters on Deimos, the other one being the Voltaire crater. It is around three kilometers in width.
Formation[]
This crater was created by an impact with a meteor. This crater does not have an internal crater like Phobos, which has an internal crater inside of its Stickney crater.
Visibility from Earth[]
This crater is smaller than normal craters, so visibility is only possible with a telescope from Earth. This crater is better visible with a higher power telescope.
| Geology of Phobos and Deimos | ||
|---|---|---|
| Phobos | Craters | Clustril • D'Arrest • Drunlo • Flimnap • Grildrig • Gulliver • Hall • Limtoc • Öpik • Reldresal • Roche • Sharpless • Shklovsky • Skyresh • Stickney • Todd • Wendell |
| Other | Kepler Dorsum • Lagado Planitia • Laputa Regio • Phobos Monolith | |
| Deimos | Craters | Swift • Voltaire |