Shirin (Enceladus)

Wife of King Khusrau in the tale "Khusrau and Shirin and the Fisherman"

Shirin is an impact crater located on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Cassini observed several, narrow, southwest-northeast trending fractures cutting across Shirin, forming canyons up to a hundred metres deep along the crater's rim. Several wider fractures are seen nearby, however these appeared to form before the Shirin impact since the crater appears to cover these fractures as they appear it. (wikipedia entry)

A crater is a circular depression likely created by an impact event. On Enceladus they are named after people and places from Burton's Arabian Nights.

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Andalús Sulci

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Khusrau

Shirin

-2.27° N 187.18° E

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