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    Despréz is a crater on Mercury with a diameter of 47.05 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1979. Despréz...
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  • trouvère poet-composer Desprez (actor) (1759–1829), French actor Desprez Lake, a lake in Quebec, Canada Despréz (crater), a crater on Mercury Despres, also...
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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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    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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    the south of Morrison are the craters Mansart and Bjornson. To the north are Rizal and Josetsu. To the east is Despréz. "Morrison". Gazetteer of Planetary...
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    Darío is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 151 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Dario is...
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    Chao Meng-Fu is a 167 km (104 mi) diameter crater on Mercury named after the Chinese painter and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322). Due to its location...
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    Calder is a small crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2013. Calder is named for the American sculptor...
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    Callicrates is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Callicrates is named for the Greek architect...
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    Aristoxenus is an impact crater near the north pole on Mercury. It was named by the IAU in 1979 after the Greek philosopher Aristoxenus. Aristoxenus is...
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  • Ghost craters on the planet Mercury have tectonic features such as graben and wrinkle ridges. These features were formed by extensional and contractional...
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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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    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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    Du Fu is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on September 25, 2015. Du Fu is named for the Chinese...
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    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 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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    Caruso is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on December 16, 2013. Caruso is named for the Italian...
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  • geological features on Mercury is an itemization of mountains, valleys, craters and other landform features of the planet Mercury. Different types of features...
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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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    Bjornson is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1985. Bjornson is named for the Norwegian playwright...
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    Apollodorus is an impact crater on Mercury. Its unusual appearance, with radiating dark troughs, led to a nickname of "the Spider" by scientists before...
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    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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    Bellini is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2019, and is named for the Italian painter Giovanni...
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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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    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 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 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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  • Thumbnail for Driscoll (crater)
    Driscoll is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on September 25, 2015. Driscoll is named for the American...
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    Bulsara is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in May 2024, for British musician Farrokh Bulsara, better...
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    impact crater on Mercury, 90 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 10.4°, 21°W, south of the crater Abu Nuwas and southwest of the crater Molière...
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