Caravaggio (crater)

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MESSENGER NAC image, acquired on third flyby in September 2009
Feature typePeak-ring impact basin
LocationEminescu quadrangle, Mercury
Coordinates3°11′N 272°46′W / 3.18°N 272.76°W / 3.18; -272.76
Diameter185 km
EponymMichelangelo Merisi Caravaggio

Caravaggio is a large crater on Mercury. The crater was named after the Italian painter Caravaggio by the IAU in 2013.[1]

Caravaggio is one of 110 peak ring basins on Mercury.[2]

The scarps Blossom Rupes cut across the southern rim of Caravaggio and extend to the southeast a further 400 km to the crater Savage.[3]

  1. ^ "Caravaggio". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. IAU/NASA/USGS. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  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. ^ "Blossom Rupes". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. IAU/NASA/USGS. Retrieved 1 May 2024.