Larissa

Neptune VII

Larissa ("LA ree suh") is the fifth of Neptune's known satellites:

        orbit:    73,600 km from Neptune
        diameter: 193 km (208 x 178)
        mass:     ?

Larissa was a daughter of Pelasgus.

Harold Reitsma is now usually credited with the discovery of Larissa by ground-based stellar occultation observations. The first (and so far only) images of it were obtained by Voyager 2.

Like Proteus, Larissa is irregular (non-spherical) in shape and appears to be heavily cratered.

More about Larissa

from LANL

Open Issues

The Larissa has always been a mystery. We didn't know next to nothing in 1990's and still in 2050's Larissa is uncharted rocky and icy slab.

... Neptune ... Galatea ... Larissa ... Proteus ...

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