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Ugatame Corona
Ugatame Corona (also spelled Ugateme), a 370-km corona on Venus at 76.5°S, 255°E near the south pole, IAU-approved 1997, named for a Kapauku Great Mother goddess; its corona status is questioned.
Uilata Fluctus
Uilata Fluctus is a large lava flow field on Venus, about 700 km across, centered in the Guinevere Planitia quadrangle and intermingling with outflows from the volcano Tuli Mons.
Ukemochi Corona
Ukemochi Corona is a 300-km-wide corona on Venus at 39.0°S, 296.1°E in Themis Regio, named for a Japanese fertility goddess in 1994 and classified as geologically active.
Ulfrun Regio
Ulfrun Regio, a 3,954-km-wide regio on Venus at 27°N 225°E, IAU-approved 1982, named for a Norse giantess; contains western Hecate Chasma, Ozza Mons, Nazit Mons, and radiating graben systems.
Ulgen-ekhe Coronae
Ulgen-ekhe Coronae is a 300-km-wide corona (ring-shaped volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 14.2°S, 224°E, IAU-approved in 2003 and named for the Buryat Earth mother.
Umaga Valles
Umaga Valles is a 400 km valley system on Venus, centered at 49° south, 152° east, named by the IAU in 1997 from an old Tagal word for Venus.
Umay-ene Corona
Umay-ene Corona (Umay ene Corona) is a 370-km-diameter corona on Venus at 50.5°E, 27.5°S in quadrangle V-45, a double-ringed basin with nested ridges, named in 1997 for the Kazakh childcare goddess Umay.
Undine Planitia
Undine Planitia is a 2,800-km-diameter volcanic lowland plain on Venus at 13°N, 303°E, in the Guinevere Planitia (V-30) quadrangle; IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Lithuanian water nymph or mermaid.
Unelanuhi Dorsa
Unelanuhi Dorsa, a 2,600 km ridge belt (dorsum) on Venus at 12N 87E, IAU-named 1997 for the Cherokee sun goddess; second-longest Venus dorsa after Vedma Dorsa.
Uni Dorsa
Uni Dorsa is an 800-km-long ridge (dorsum) on Venus at 33.7°N, 114.3°E, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for an Etruscan goddess equated with Hera or Juno.
Unuk Dorsa
Unuk Dorsa is a 400 km ridge (dorsum) on Venus at 4.5°S, 351.5°E, IAU approved 1997, named for an Eskimo (Chukotka) night maiden; one of 99 named Venusian dorsa.
Uorsar Rupes
Uorsar Rupes is an 820 km scarp on Venus at 76.8N, 341.2E, the northern boundary of Ishtar Terra, IAU-approved 1985, named for an Adygan hearth goddess, interpreted as a fold-and-thrust or normal-fault margin.
Upunusa Tholus
Upunusa Tholus is a 223-km-wide tholus (domical hill) on Venus at 66.2N, 252.4E, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Earth goddess of Leti and Babar, eastern Indonesia; third-largest named Venusian tholus.
Urash Corona
Urash Corona, a 360-km-wide corona (circular volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 43.2°N, 282.0°E, named for the Sumerian-Akkadian earth goddess, wife of Anu; IAU-approved 2007.
Uretsete Mons
Uretsete Mons, a 500-km-diameter shield volcano on Venus at 12°S, 261°E near Phoebe Regio; IAU-named 1997 for a Keresan Pueblo ancestor goddess; 2.3 km high, domical, with postdating fractures and embaying flows.
Urkuk Dorsa
Urkuk Dorsa, a 600 km ridge (dorsum) on Venus at 12S 320E, IAU-approved 1997, named for a Nivkhi (Sakhalin Island) night maiden; distinct from the smaller Unuk Dorsa.
Urutonga Colles
Urutonga Colles is a 500-km-wide area of small hills on Venus, centered in the Rusalka Planitia quadrangle and named in 2003 for the Māori sea goddess Urutonga.
Ushas Mons
Ushas Mons is a large volcano on the planet Venus, centered at 24.30°S, 324.60°E and measuring 413 km across, named in 1982 for Ushas, the Indian goddess of dawn.
Ustrecha Tesserae
Ustrecha Tesserae is a 450 km-wide tessera on Venus, one of 65 named tile-like deformed terrains, among the planet's oldest exposed material, studied via Magellan radar roughness data.
Ut Rupes
Ut Rupes is a 676-km-wide scarp (rupes) on Venus at 55.3N, 321.9E, IAU-approved in 1982 and named for a Turco-Tatar hearth-fire goddess; it borders Lakshmi Planum's southern edge near Vesta Rupes.
Uti Hiata Mons
Uti Hiata Mons is a 500-km-diameter shield volcano on Venus at 16°N, 69°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Pawnee Mother Corn deity; a large radial-flow shield about 0.75 km high.
Utrenitsa Vallis
Utrenitsa Vallis is a 700-km valley system (vallis) on Venus at 55°N, 280°E in the Metis Regio quadrangle, named for an Old Russian name for Venus and adopted by the IAU in 1997.
Utset Corona
Utset Corona is a circular tectonic feature on Venus near Artemis Chasma, marked by concentric structures and two fracture suites; its classification as a corona is considered suspect by USGS mappers.
Uzume Fluctus
Uzume Fluctus is a large lava flow field on Venus at 28.6N, 220.3E, about 700 km across, IAU-named in 1997 for the Japanese goddess of cheerfulness, a post-regional-plains volcanic unit.
Vacuna Corona
Vacuna Corona is a 448-km-diameter corona on Venus at 60.4N, 96.0E, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Sabinian goddess of harvest; it lies near Fakahotu Corona.
Vaidilute Rupes
Vaidilute Rupes, a 2,000-km ridge belt and scarp on Venus at 43.5° S, 22° E in the Kaiwan Fluctus quadrangle, named 1997 for the Lithuanian hearth goddess; largest of Venus's 7 rupes.
Vaiva Dorsum
Vaiva Dorsum is a 520-km ridge belt (dorsum) on Venus at 53.2°S, 204°E in the Barrymore quadrangle, named in 1994 for the Lithuanian rainbow goddess and formed by east-west crustal compression.
Vakarine Vallis
Vakarine Vallis, a 625 km valley (vallis) on Venus at 5.00°N, 336.40°E, named from a Lithuanian word for Venus; IAU-approved in 1994 from a list by George Burba, Vernadsky Institute.
Vako-nana Tesserae
Vako-nana Tesserae is a region of tessera terrain, deformed ridges and grooves, on Venus, about 1,200 km across and named by the IAU in 1997.
Valkyrie Fossae
Valkyrie Fossae is a 357 km system of long, narrow tectonic depressions (fossae) on Venus at 58.2°N, 7.0°E, IAU-approved in 1991 and named for the Norse battle maidens.