Mendelssohn (crater)

Mendelssohn

MESSENGER WAC mosaic
Planet	Mercury
Coordinates	70°19′N257°41′W / 70.31°N 257.68°W / 70.31; -257.68
Quadrangle	Borealis
Diameter	291 km (181 mi)
Eponym	Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn

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]

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.

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

References

1. "Mendelssohn". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS/NASA . Retrieved 5 November 2020.
2. A Tale of Two Terrains, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. January 8, 2013.
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