page_title: Pickering (Martian crater)
hierarchical_section_title: Pickering (Martian crater)
caption_attribution_description: English: Pickering Crater lobate flow, as seen by hirise. Location is 33.1 degrees south latitude and 227.5 degrees east longitude. Image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona. Image courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
context_page_description: Pickering Crater is a crater in the Phaethontis quadrangle on Mars, located at 33.1° south latitude and 132.5° west longitude. It is 115 kilometres in diameter.
  Lava flow fronts are visible within the crater, and the source of the lava is Arsia Mons. The lava has flowed around the central peak of the crater.
  The crater was named after several people: Edward Charles Pickering, American astronomer; his brother William Henry Pickering, American astronomer; and Sir William Hayward Pickering, New Zealand-American engineer.
context_section_description: Pickering Crater is a crater in the Phaethontis quadrangle on Mars, located at 33.1° south latitude and 132.5° west longitude.  It is 115 kilometres (71 mi) in diameter.
  Lava flow fronts are visible within the crater, and the source of the lava is Arsia Mons.  The lava has flowed around the central peak of the crater.
  The crater was named after several people: Edward Charles Pickering,  American astronomer (1846–1919); his brother William Henry Pickering, American astronomer (1858–1938); and Sir William Hayward Pickering (unrelated), New Zealand-American engineer (1910–2004).
caption: Pickering Crater lava flow, as seen by HiRISE.  Click on image to see details at edge of flow
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