Lagado Planitia (Phobos)
Data as of 2026-10-23
What it is
- Type
- Planitia, planitiae
- IAU definition
Low plain
- Diameter
- 4 km, 36 % of the radius of its body
- Centre
- 19° N, 129° east (planetocentric latitude, east longitude from 0 to 360°, the IAU convention)
- Name adopted
- July 28, 2011
- Origin of the name
Fictional city in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, ruled by a tyrannical king from the flying island Laputa.
Quoted in English, as the IAU publishes it.
In Galaxy
Opens its body in the application, the camera turned towards Lagado Planitia.
Missions to its body
No observation record of this formation is crossed here. These are the missions the Planetary Data System declares for its body; none is claimed to have observed Lagado Planitia.
Sources
International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, read on October 23, 2026. Feature page: https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/14867
Type definitions: IAU Descriptor Terms, read on October 17, 2026. https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/DescriptorTerms