Renoir (crater)

Information

Renoir is a peak ring basin, one of 110 on Mercury, including Raditladi and Rachmaninoff. Though these basins are relatively young geologic features, Renoir is one of the oldest of its type. Because of its greater age, Renoir displays more of the effects of tectonics and later impact events than the other peak ring impact basins. It is thought to have formed at the end of the period with the highest meteor impact rates in Mercury's history. It is located in the Kuiper quadrangle. Renoir also has an area of high reflectance, classified as a plain, resulting from previous volcanic activity on the planet. Like Rachmaninoff, it is a basin with a high-reflectance plain located entirely within the central peak ring.

Structure

Renoir has a concentric ring structure, meaning that it is also called a "concentric ring basin". Its interior rim is distinct, however, similar basins usually have a more distinct outer rim than inner rim. Basins like Renoir are known for having deep valleys in and around them. Mercury's lower radius and mass compared to other bodies like Mars mean that its basins - including Renoir and Rodin - have a greater diameter; consequently, the multi-ring basins on bodies like the Moon, including basins like Hertzsprung and Mare Orientale, are even larger than those on Mercury.

Views

File:Mariner 10 image 0027229.png|Mariner 10 image with Renoir at bottom Renoir crater to Sihtu Planitia MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg|Regional approximate color image with Renoir below center Renoir crater interior EN0241249151M.jpg|Central Renoir - note the dark parts of the peak ring Renoir crater EN1033864633M.jpg|Oblique view of southern Renoir Renoir crater EN0239756726M.jpg|Another oblique view

References

References

1. (7 March 2011). "Renoir". International Astronomical Union and Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.
2. Chapman, C. R., Baker, D. M. H., Barnouin, O. S., Fassett, C. I., Marchie, S., Merline, W. J., Ostrach, L. R., Prockter, L. M., and Strom, R. G., 2018. Impact Cratering of Mercury. In ''Mercury: The View After [[MESSENGER]]'' edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 9.
3. (17 August 2012). "Peak-Ringed Renoir". NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington.
4. (1981). "Geologic Map of the Kuiper (H-6) Quadrangle of Mercury". NASA, US Geologic Survey.
5. Lakdawalla, Emily. (12 March 2010). "LPSC: The Moon, Mars, Mercury, Vesta, and back to Mars". The Planetary Society.
6. (2023-03-02). "Mercury – the innermost planet".
7. (6 August 2010). "Evidence for Young Volcanism on Mercury from the Third MESSENGER Flyby". Science.
8. (1980). "Multi-Ring Basins on the Moon, Mars and Mercury". Lunar and Planetary Science.