Castiglione is a crater on
Mercury. Its name was adopted by the
International Astronomical Union
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(IAU) on September 25, 2015. Castiglione is named for the Italian painter
Giuseppe Castiglione.
In the southwest portion of Castiglione is a ''dark spot'' of low reflectance material (LRM), closely associated with
hollows.
[Zhiyong Xiao, Robert G. Strom, David T. Blewett, Paul K. Byrne, Sean C. Solomon, Scott L. Murchie, Ann L. Sprague, Deborah L. Domingue, Jörn Helbert, 2013. ''Dark spots on Mercury: A distinctive low-reflectance material and its relation to hollows''. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.]
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Castiglione lies on the south rim of the larger Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (; ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), mononymously known as Rembrandt was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and Drawing, draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in ...
basin.
References
Impact craters on Mercury
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