Traba is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the

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(IAU) on February 7, 2025. The crater is named for Argentinian-Colombian writer and art critic Marta Traba. The crater was first imaged by

Mariner 10 ''Mariner 10'' was an American Robotic spacecraft, robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury (planet), Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets. ''Marin ...

in 1974. Traba is to the northeast of the large crater Vieira da Silva.

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