Yalode (crater)

Yalode (/jəˈloʊdi/)[2] is the second-largest confirmed impact basin on the dwarf planet Ceres, after Kerwan.

It is located adjacent to another large crater, Urvara, and serves as the namesake for the Yalode Quadrange.

[1] Yalode is a heavily degraded impact basin, hosting numerous smaller craters such as Besua.

[3] Yalode is itself superimposed by the Urvara basin, the third-largest crater on Ceres; both are surrounded by extensive ejecta deposits.

The parallel nature of the fractures are possibly representative of horst and graben faulting from extensional stresses and tilted crust blocks.