Castiglione_(crater)

Castiglione (crater)

Castiglione (crater)

Crater on Mercury

Castiglione is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on September 25, 2015. Castiglione is named for the Italian painter Giuseppe Castiglione.[1]

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In the southwest portion of Castiglione is a dark spot of low reflectance material (LRM), closely associated with hollows.[2]

Castiglione lies on the south rim of the larger Rembrandt basin.

References

  1. [1]
    "Castiglione". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  2. [2]
    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. doi.org/10.1002/jgre.20115


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