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Engelier
Engelier (lower left) within Saragossa Terra.
Feature type	Central peak impact basin
Location	Saragossa Terra, Iapetus
Coordinates	40°30′S 96°42′E / 40.500°S 96.700°E / -40.500; 96.700^[1]
Diameter	503 km (303 mi)^[2]
Depth	8-9 km^[3]
Eponym	Engelier, character from the Song of Roland

Engelier is a 310-mile (500-kilometers) large crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus in Saragossa Terra.^[4]^[5] It partially obscures the slightly smaller crater Gerin.

References

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^ "Engelier". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program. (Center Latitude: -40.50°, Center Longitude: 264.70°)
^ Barnett, Amanda; et al. (December 1, 2017). "Global View of Iapetus' Dichotomy". Solar System Exploration. NASA. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
^ Robuchon, Guillaume; Nimmo, Francis; Roberts, James; Kirchoff, Michelle (July 2011). "Impact basin relaxation at Iapetus". Icarus. 214 (1). Elsevier: 82–90. Bibcode:2011Icar..214...82R. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.011.
^ Wilkinson, John (March 2016). The Solar System in Close-Up (1st ed.). Springer. p. 209. ISBN 978-3319276274.
^ Greeley, Ronald (February 2013). Introduction to Planetary Geomorphology. Cambridge University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0521867115. Retrieved 24 April 2017.

Iapetus

Geography

Regions	Cassini Regio Roncevaux Terra Saragossa Terra
Craters	Abisme Engelier Gerin Roland Turgis
Mountains	Equatorial ridge

Discovery

Exploration

Past	Pioneer 11 Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Cassini–Huygens
Proposed	Titan Saturn System Mission

Moons of Saturn

Listed in approximately increasing distance from Saturn

Ring moonlets

Ring shepherds

Other inner moons

Alkyonides

Large moons
(with trojans)

Inuit group (12)

Kiviuq subgroup	S/2019 S 1 Kiviuq S/2005 S 4 S/2020 S 1 Ijiraq
Paaliaq subgroup	Paaliaq
Siarnaq subgroup	S/2004 S 31 Tarqeq Siarnaq S/2019 S 14 S/2020 S 3 S/2020 S 5