Lermontov (crater)
| File:Lermontov crater MESSENGER.png
MESSENGER image from its second flyby in October 2008
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| Feature type | Impact crater |
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| Location | Kuiper quadrangle, Mercury |
| Diameter | 166 km (103 mi) |
| Eponym | Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov |
Lermontov is an impact crater on the planet Mercury. The crater is named after Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a 19th-century Russian poet. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.[1][2][3]
The crater floor is somewhat brighter than the exterior surface and is smooth with several irregularly shaped depressions. Such features, similar to those found on the floor of Praxiteles, may be evidence of past explosive volcanic activity on the crater floor. Lermontov appears reddish in enhanced-color views, suggesting that it has a different composition from the surrounding surface.[4]
To the north of Lermontov are Proust and Bek craters. To the south is Chaikovskij, and to the southwest is Giotto.
Views
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Mariner 10 image 0027253.png
Mariner 10 image with Lermontov in upper right corner
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Lermontov crater MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg
Lermontov in approximate color
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Lermontov crater EN1063940039M.jpg
Oblique view of the interior of Lermontov. Bright spots are hollows.
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Lermontov crater hollows EN0258631468M.jpg
Hollows in northern Lermontov crater
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Depression in Lermontov crater EN0254051725M.jpg
One of the depressions in Lermontov
References
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- ↑ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.
- ↑ Blewett, D. T., B. R. Hawke, P. G. Lucey, and M. S. Robinson (2007), A Mariner 10 color study of Mercurian craters, J. Geophys. Res., 112, E02005, doi:10.1029/2006JE002713.
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