Calvino (crater)

Calvino

Mosaic of MESSENGER NAC images focused on Calvino
Feature type	Impact crater
Location	Kuiper quadrangle, Mercury
Coordinates	3°59′S56°02′W / 3.99°S 56.03°W / -3.99; -56.03
Diameter	67 km
Eponym	Italo Calvino

Calvino is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the IAU in 2016, after the Italian writer Italo Calvino. ^[1] The crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974. ^[2]

Calvino lies in the center of Sihtu Planitia, and Rūdaki crater is to the east.

Views

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  Calvino crater at center of each image. The left image was created by combining WAC images from three narrow-band color filters to approximate Mercury's color as it would be seen by the human eye. The right image used a statistical analysis of all 11 WAC filters to highlight subtle color differences on the surface. ^[3]

References

1. Calvino, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)
2. Davies, M. E.; Dwornik, S. E.; Gault, D. E.; Strom, R. G. (1978). Atlas of Mercury. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. pp. 1–128. ISBN   978-1-114-27448-8. Special Publication SP-423.
3. "MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2010-05-02.