Caravaggio is a large
crater
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on
Mercury. The crater was named after the Italian painter
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fina ...
by the
IAU
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in 2013.
Caravaggio is one of 110
peak ring basins on Mercury.
The scarps
Blossom Rupes
Different types of geological features on the planet Mercury are named after different things: Mercurian ridges are called dorsa, and are named after astronomers who made detailed studies of the planet; valleys are called valles, and are named ...
cut across the southern rim of Caravaggio and extend to the southeast a further 400 km to the crater
Savage
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.
References
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Impact craters on Mercury
Caravaggio