Stevenson_(crater)

Stevenson (crater)

Stevenson (crater)

Crater on Mercury

Stevenson is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2012, after the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.[1]

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Mariner 10 image with Stevenson at lower right.

The crater is very old and is crisscrossed by chains of secondary impact craters.[2]

The crater Tyagaraja is to the west of Stevenson.

References

  1. [1]
    "Stevenson". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Catalog Page for PIA15781". photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2022-02-17.


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