Barton - Venusian Crater and American Red Cross Founder - Pedricktown, NJ - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

A service plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike is named in honor of Clara Barton who founded the American Red Cross and was its first President. Barton Crater is a 54-km (32-mi) diameter crater on Venus also named for her.

"Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973." (Source: Wikipedia)

A service plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike (Southbound) is named in her honor. It is located near mile marker 5 between Exits 1 and 2.

Approved in 1991, Barton Crater is a named crater on Venus. "During orbits 404 through 414 on 19-20 September 1990, Magellan imaged a peak-ring crater that is 50 kilometers in diameter located at latitude 27.4 degrees north and longitude 337.5 degrees east. The name Barton [was] proposed by the Magellan Science Team for this crater, after Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross...

Barton is just at the diameter size that Venus craters appear to begin to possess peak-rings instead of a single central peak or central peak complex like 75 percent of the craters with diameters between 50 and about 15 kilometers. The floor of the crater is flat and radar-dark, indicating possible infilling by volcanic deposits sometime following the impact event. Barton's central peak ring is discontinuous and appears to have been disrupted or separated during or following the cratering process. The extremely blocky crater deposits (ejecta) surrounding Barton appear to be most extensive on the southwest to southeast (lower left to right) side of the crater." (Source: NASA/JPL)

Spacecraft: Magellan; Instrument: Radar System

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