Vega Terra (Pluto)
Data as of 2026-10-23
What it is
- Type
- Terra, terrae
- IAU definition
Extensive land mass
- Diameter
- 1,614 km, 136 % of the radius of its body
- Centre
- 33.96° N, 85.49° east (planetocentric latitude, east longitude from 0 to 360°, the IAU convention)
- Name adopted
- May 30, 2019
- Origin of the name
A pair of the Soviet Union’s Vega 1 and Vega 2 spacecraft launched in 1984 that were the first ones to fly balloons on another planet (Venus, 1985) and then the first ones to image the nucleus of a comet (1P/Halley, 1986).
Quoted in English, as the IAU publishes it.
In Galaxy
Opens its body in the application, the camera turned towards Vega Terra.
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 Vega Terra.
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/15841
Type definitions: IAU Descriptor Terms, read on October 17, 2026. https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/DescriptorTerms