Template:GeoTemplate/venus
| Coordinates on Venus | {latdegabs}° {latminint}′ {latsecdec}″ {latNS}, {londegabs}° {lonminint}′ {lonsecdec}″ {lonEW} ({latdegdec}°, {londegdec}°) | Type | {type} |
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Longitude
Longitudes on Venus are measured eastward from its prime meridian. The original prime meridian passed through the radar-bright spot at the center of the oval feature Eve, located south of Alpha Regio.[1] After the Venera missions were completed, the prime meridian was redefined to pass through the central peak in the crater Ariadne.[2][3]
- ^ Davies, M.E.; et al. (1994), "Report of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements of the Planets and Satellites", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 63 (2): 127, Bibcode:1996CeMDA..63..127D, doi:10.1007/BF00693410
- ^ "USGS Astrogeology: Rotation and pole position for the Sun and planets (IAU WGCCRE)". Retrieved 22 October 2009.
- ^ "The Magellan Venus Explorer's Guide". Retrieved 22 October 2009.
See also
External links
Template documentation | This template may have no transclusions, because this template is used by mw:GeoHack to display maps on pages linked from, but outside of, the English Wikipedia. The GeoTemplate family of templates is used by {{coord}} links on articles about places on Earth and on extraterrestrial bodies. See {{Surface features of space objects}} for links to many such articles.. |
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Microformat
The HTML markup produced by this template emits an Geo microformat, which makes the location's coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map. As yet, the standard for doing this for off-world bodies is still under development, but is supported in some microformat parsers (e.g. Swignition). For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.
Geo is usually produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:
- body
- geo
- latitude
- longitude
Please do not rename or remove these classes.
When giving coordinates, please don't be overly precise.