• Thumbnail for Raden Saleh (crater)
    Raden Saleh is a crater on Mercury. Its name was approved by the IAU in 2008, and it is named after a famous Indonesian painter named Raden Saleh. Oblique...
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    Petrarch is a crater on Mercury. This crater is located within the distorted terrain on the opposite side of the planet from the Caloris Basin. It was...
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    A permanently shadowed crater is a depression on a body in the Solar System within which lies a point that is always in darkness. As of 2019, there are...
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    Mercurian: 414 craters (7.9%)   Lunar: 1,624 craters (31.1%)   Martian: 1,092 craters (20.9%)   Venusian: 900 craters (17.2%)   Others: 1,198 craters (22.9%)...
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  • Thumbnail for Delacroix (crater)
    Delacroix is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. Delacroix is named for the French painter Eugène...
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    Dostoevskij (sometimes Dostoevskii) is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 430 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical...
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    Caloris Planitia (category Impact craters on Mercury)
    the crater could not be imaged. Later, on January 15, 2008, one of the first photos of the planet taken by the MESSENGER probe revealed the crater in its...
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    from relatively fresh rayed-craters, to highly degraded crater remnants. Mercurian craters differ subtly from Lunar craters – the extent of their ejecta...
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  • Thumbnail for Dvorák (crater)
    Dvorák is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 75 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Dvorak is...
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  • Thumbnail for Berry (crater)
    Berry is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on September 28, 2020. Berry is named for the American...
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    Mercury is heavily cratered, as a result of countless impact events that have accumulated over billions of years. Its largest crater, Caloris Planitia...
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  • Thumbnail for Velázquez (crater)
    Velázquez is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 128 kilometres (80 miles). Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in...
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  • Thumbnail for Donelaitis (crater)
    Donelaitis is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on May 15, 2013. Donelaitis is named for the Lithuanian...
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  • Thumbnail for Dürer (crater)
    Dürer is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 195 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Durer is...
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  • Thumbnail for Balanchine (crater)
    Balanchine is a crater on the planet Mercury. It possesses a ray system of slightly bluish rays. These rays inspired the name of the crater due to their...
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  • Thumbnail for Tsʽai Wen-Chi (crater)
    Tsʻai Wen-Chi is an impact crater on the planet Mercury. It is located northwest of the larger Rodin crater. It is named for the Chinese composer Cai Yan...
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  • Thumbnail for Barma (crater)
    Barma is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 128 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1982. Barma is named...
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  • Thumbnail for Brooks (crater)
    Brooks is a crater on the southwestern part Mercury. It has a diameter of 34 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in...
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  • Thumbnail for Bunin (crater)
    Bunin is a crater on Mercury, located near the north pole. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2019. It is named for...
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  • Thumbnail for Aneirin (crater)
    Aneirin is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 467 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on June 13, 2014...
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  • Thumbnail for Burke (crater)
    actress Billie Burke. Northeast rim of Burke crater Oblique view of Burke crater (upper left) and Gordimer crater (lower left) Moore, Patrick (2000). The Data...
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  • Thumbnail for Al-Jāhiz (crater)
    Al-Jāhiz is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 83 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Al-Jāhiz...
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  • Thumbnail for Bek (crater)
    Bek is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 32 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2010. Bek is named...
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  • Thumbnail for Beethoven (crater)
    Beethoven is a crater at latitude 20°S, longitude 124°W on Mercury. It is 630 km in diameter and was named after Ludwig van Beethoven. It is the eleventh...
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  • Thumbnail for Bruegel (crater)
    Bruegel is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 72 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1985. Bruegel is named...
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  • Thumbnail for Degas (crater)
    material blasted out during the crater's formation. Craters older than Degas are covered by the ray material, while younger craters are seen superimposed on...
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  • Thumbnail for Chaikovskij (crater)
    Chaikovskij (sometimes Tchaikovsky) is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 171 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical...
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  • Thumbnail for Dali (crater)
    Dali is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 176 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2008. Dali is named for...
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  • Thumbnail for Alencar (crater)
    Alencar is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 120 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1979. Alencar...
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  • Thumbnail for Catullus (crater)
    Catullus is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on December 19, 2012. Catullus is named for the Roman...
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