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Lermontov (crater)

Crater on Mercury

Summary

Crater on Mercury

Field	Value
name	Lermontov
image	Lermontov crater MESSENGER.png
caption	MESSENGER image from its second flyby in October 2008
location	Kuiper quadrangle, Mercury
type	Impact crater
coordinates
diameter	166 km
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.

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.

To the north of Lermontov are Proust and Bek craters. To the south is Chaikovskij, and to the southwest is Giotto.

Views

Mariner 10 image 0027253.png|Mariner 10 image with Lermontov in upper right corner Lermontov crater MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg|Lermontov in approximate color Lermontov crater EN1063940039M.jpg|Oblique view of the interior of Lermontov. Bright spots are hollows. Lermontov crater hollows EN0258631468M.jpg|Hollows in northern Lermontov crater Depression in Lermontov crater EN0254051725M.jpg|One of the depressions in Lermontov

References

"Lermontov". [[IAU]]/[[NASA]]/[[USGS]].
''[[NASA World Wind]]'' 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.
Blewett, D. T., B. R. Hawke, P. G. Lucey, and M. S. Robinson (2007), [http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006JE002713.shtml A Mariner 10 color study of Mercurian craters] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-02-18 , J. Geophys. Res., 112, E02005, {{doi). 10.1029/2006JE002713.
David Pegg, David Rothery, M.R. Balme, Susan Conway, 2021. Explosive vent sites on Mercury: Commonplace multiple eruptions and their implications. Icarus 365:114510. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114510 doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114510]
"MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging".

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