Artynia Catena [SEP] located on astronomical body
Artynia Catena
Artynia Catena is a feature in the Arcadia quadrangle of Mars, located at . It is long and was named after a classical albedo feature at The term "Catena" refers to a chain of craters.
Crater chain
A crater chain is a line of craters along the surface of an astronomical body. The descriptor term for crater chains is catena, plural catenae (Latin for "chain"), as specified by the International Astronomical Union's rules on planetary nomenclature.
Many examples of such chains are thought to have been formed by the impact of a body that was broken up by tidal forces into a string of smaller objects following roughly the same orbit. An example of such a tidally disrupted body that was observed prior