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Rilke (crater)
Rilke is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Rilke is named for the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. There is an irregular depression near the center of the crater. Such depressions in similar craters (for example Glinka, Gibran, or Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...) are thought to be caused by explosive volcanism.David Pegg, David Rothery, M.R. Balme, Susan Conway, 2021. Explosive vent sites on Mercury: Commonplace multiple eruptions and their implications. Icarus 365:114510doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114510/ref> To the north of Rilke are Matabei and Pigalle craters. To the southwest are Po Ya and Sōtatsu. Matabei crater MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg, Exaggerated color view with R ...
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MESSENGER
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Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an Idiosyncrasy, idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language.Biography: Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926
Poetry Foundation website. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of Subjectivity, subjective experience and disbelief. His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, several volumes of correspondence and a few early novellas. Rilke traveled extensively throughout Europe, finally settling in Switzerland, which provided the inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is best ...
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Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun. It is a rocky planet with a trace atmosphere. While it is the List of Solar System objects by size, smallest and least massive planet of the Solar System, its surface gravity is slightly higher than that of Mars. The surface of Mercury is similar to Earth's Moon, heavily Impact crater, cratered, with expansive rupes system, generated from thrust faults, and bright ray systems, formed by ejecta. Its largest crater, Caloris Planitia, has a diameter of , which is about one-third the diameter of the planet (). Being the most inferior planet, inferior orbiting planet it appears in Earth's sky, always close to the Sun, either as a "morning star" or an "evening star". It stays most of the time the closest to all other planets and is the planet with the highest delta-v needed to travel to from all other planets of the Solar System. Mercury's sidereal year (88.0 Earth days) and sidereal day (58.65 Earth days) are in a 3:2 ratio. This relation ...
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; , UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation. It was founded on 28 July 1919 in Brussels, Belgium and is based in Paris, France. The IAU is composed of individual members, who include both professional astronomers and junior scientists, and national members, such as professional associations, national societies, or academic institutions. Individual members are organised into divisions, committees, and working groups centered on particular subdisciplines, subjects, or initiatives. the Union had 85 national members and 12,734 individual members, spanning 90 countries and territories. Among the key activities of the IAU is serving as a forum for scientific conferences. It sponsors nine annual symposia and holds a triannual General Assembly that sets policy ...
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States's civil list of government space agencies, space program, aeronautics research and outer space, space research. National Aeronautics and Space Act, Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion (spacecraft), Orion spacecraft and the Sp ...
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Glinka (crater)
Glinka is a pit-floored crater on Mercury, which was discovered in 1974 by ''Mariner 10'' spacecraft. It was named by the IAU in 2008, after Russian composer Mikhail Glinka. Its floor is covered by the smooth plain material and displays a kidney-shaped collapse feature, which is also called a central pit. The size of the pit, which was first noticed in ''MESSENGER'' images obtained in January 2008, is . It is surrounded by a bright pyroclastic deposit. Such a feature may have resulted from collapse of a magma chamber underlying the central part of the crater. The collapse feature is an analog of Earth's volcanic caldera A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption. An eruption that ejects large volumes of magma over a short period of time can cause significant detriment to the str ...s. File:Glinka crater EW1006407109G.jpg, Glinka crater File:Glinka crater EN0262402263M.map.jpg, Closeup of th ...
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Gibran (crater)
Gibran is a crater on Mercury and is in the east of the Shakespeare quadrangle. It was named after Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran in 2009. Gibran is located east of the rayed crater of Degas and nearby Damer. The crater was discovered by the ''Mariner 10'' spacecraft in 1974, but was not named until 2009. It contains a large (), nearly circular pit crater. See unnamed feature 2. Multiple examples of pit craters have been observed on Mercury on the floors of impact craters, leading to the name pit-floor craters for the impact structures that host these features (see also Beckett, Glinka, and Picasso). Unlike impact craters, pit craters are rimless, often irregularly shaped, steep-sided, and often display no associated ejecta or lava flows. These pit craters are thought to be evidence of shallow volcanic activity and may have formed when retreating magma caused an unsupported area of the surface to collapse, creating a pit. They are analogs of Earth's volcanic calderas. P ...
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Picasso (crater)
Picasso is a crater on Mercury. It has drawn scientific attention because of the large, arc-shaped pit crater located on the eastern side of its floor. Similar pits have been discovered on the floors of several other Mercury craters, such as Beckett, Glinka, and Gibran. These pits are postulated to have formed when subsurface magma subsided or drained, causing the surface to collapse into the resulting void. If this interpretation is correct, pit-floor craters such as Picasso provide evidence of shallow magmatic activity in Mercury's history. The crater was named after the Spanish painter and modern artist Pablo Picasso by the IAU in 2010. The bright area surrounding the irregular pit was named Serp Facula by the IAU on 5 February 2025. ''Serp'' is the Catalan word for snake. Picasso lies on the north rim of the ancient Lennon-Picasso Basin The Lennon-Picasso Basin is an ancient (Pre-Tolstoj (crater), Tolstojan) impact basin on Mercury (planet), Mercury, discovered f ...
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Matabei (crater)
Matabei is an impact crater on Mercury. It has a set of dark rays. Dark rays are rare on Mercury, but other occurrences have been identified, such as at Mozart crater. Mozart crater is interpreted to have excavated dark material from depth during the impact event, creating dark streamers. The dark rays from Matabei may have a similar origin. Matabei was named by the IAU in 2009 after Japanese painter Iwasa Matabei. To the northeast of Matabei is the crater Pigalle. To the south is Rilke, and to the northwest is Guido d'Arezzo. Matabei crater MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg, Exaggerated color view with Matabei at center Matabei crater EN0131773885M.png, Oblique image acquired by MESSENGER Messenger, Messengers, The Messenger or The Messengers may refer to: People * Courier, a person or company that delivers messages, packages, or mail * Messenger (surname) * Bicycle messenger, a bicyclist who transports packages through cities * M ... on its second flyby in October 2008 Re ...
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Pigalle (crater)
Pigalle is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Pigalle is named for the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. To the southwest of Pigalle is the crater Matabei, and to the west is Guido d'Arezzo Guido of Arezzo (; – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a massive influence on .... Matabei crater MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg, Exaggerated color view with Pigalle at upper right Pigalle crater EN1015190453M.jpg, Most of the interior of Pigalle References Impact craters on Mercury {{Mercury-planet-stub ...
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Po Ya (crater)
Po Ya is a crater on Mercury (planet), Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union, IAU in 1976, after Bo Ya, a Chinese musician who lived in 8th century B.C. The crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974. Po Ya is northwest of the larger crater Sōtatsu (crater), Sōtatsu and northeast of Tintoretto (crater), Tintoretto crater. References

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