Hemingway (crater)
 Hemingway is in the lower right corner of this MESSENGER image, from its second flyby in October 2008 | |
| Planet | Mercury |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 17°30′N 2°54′W / 17.5°N 2.9°W / 17.5; -2.9 |
| Quadrangle | Kuiper |
| Diameter | 126 km (78 mi) |
| Eponym | Ernest Hemingway |
Hemingway is a crater on Mercury. It has a patch of very dark material located near its center. The dark color is likely due to rocks that have a different mineralogical composition from that of the surrounding surface.[1]
The crater's name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2009. It is named for the American author Ernest Hemingway.[2][why?]
Dark interior crater
The dark impact crater near the center of Hemingway is truly black, and due to its superposition over the other structures in the crater, it is a young feature. The dark material is probably abundant in the subsurface of the crater and is being exposed by mass wasting processes and the formation of hollows.[3]
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Approximate color view
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Oblique view facing east with the dark interior crater near center, showing that the dark crater is adjacent to a complex depression
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Oblique view facing west with the dark interior crater near center
References
- ^ A Patch of Black (2009), NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
- ^ "Hemingway". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ^ Xiao, Z., Xu, R., Wang, Y., Chang, Y., Xu, R., & Cui, J. (2021). Recent dark pyroclastic deposits on Mercury. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092532. doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092532
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