Sher-Gil (crater)

Sher-Gil
	MESSENGER image
Planet	Mercury
Coordinates	45°16′S225°16′W / 45.26°S 225.26°W
Quadrangle	Neruda
Diameter	77 km (48 mi)
Eponym	Amrita Sher-Gil

Last updated August 01, 2025

Sher-Gil is a crater on Mercury, named by the International Astronomical Union in 2016 after the Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil.^[1] Hollows are present.^[2] To its southwest is Neruda crater.

Irregular depressions within the crater are evidence of explosive volcanism.^[3]

References

↑ "Sher-Gil". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA . Retrieved 18 January 2020.
↑ UNCOVERING A DARK PAST, MESSENGER Featured Image Database, 1 March 2012
↑ David Pegg, David Rothery, M.R. Balme, Susan Conway, 2021. Explosive vent sites on Mercury: Commonplace multiple eruptions and their implications. Icarus 365:114510. doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114510

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[1] "Sher-Gil". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA . Retrieved 18 January 2020.

[2] UNCOVERING A DARK PAST, MESSENGER Featured Image Database, 1 March 2012

[3] David Pegg, David Rothery, M.R. Balme, Susan Conway, 2021. Explosive vent sites on Mercury: Commonplace multiple eruptions and their implications. Icarus 365:114510. doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114510

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