Mendelssohn_(crater)

Mendelssohn (crater)

Mendelssohn (crater)

Crater on Mercury

Mendelssohn is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on April 24, 2012. Mendelssohn is named for the German composer Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn.[1]

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The floor of Mendelssohn is covered by smooth plains materials which are created by extrusive volcanism.[2]

A confirmed dark spot is present in north-central Mendelssohn, around a crater of 19 km diameter. The crater excavated low reflectance material (LRM).[3] Hollows are present within the crater.

On the east rim of Mendelssohn is the crater Berry.

  • Oblique view of Mendelssohn and Kofi craters from MESSENGER's first flyby in January 2008
  • Southern rim of Mendelssohn crater
  • Mendelssohn crater interior. The crater at top is associated with a dark spot and contains hollows
  • Hollows within the crater

References

  1. [1]
    "Mendelssohn". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS/NASA. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  2. [2]
    A Tale of Two Terrains, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. January 8, 2013.
  3. [3]
    Zhiyong Xiao, Robert G. Strom, David T. Blewett, Paul K. Byrne, Sean C. Solomon, Scott L. Murchie, Ann L. Sprague, Deborah L. Domingue, Jörn Helbert, 2013. Dark spots on Mercury: A distinctive low-reflectance material and its relation to hollows. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. doi.org/10.1002/jgre.20115
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