Lennon-Picasso_Basin

Lennon-Picasso Basin

Lennon-Picasso Basin

Crater on Mercury

The Lennon-Picasso Basin is an ancient (Pre-Tolstojan) impact basin on Mercury, discovered from topographic mapping of the surface by the MESSENGER spacecraft. It is approximately 1450 km in diameter and spans the region between Picasso crater on the north rim to Lennon crater on the south rim, and the crater Holst is near the center. The basin is heavily eroded by subsequent impacts and is not obvious on the surface. A topographic low is present near the center, and scarps representing a remnant of the eastern basin rim are intact. The scarps include the highest point on the planet.[1]

Topographic map of the Lennon-Picasso Basin

The northern part of the basin is within the Derain quadrangle and the southern part is within the Debussy quadrangle.

References

  1. [1]
    Denevi, B. W., Ernst, C. M., Prockter, L. M., and Robinson, M. S., 2018. The Geologic History of Mercury. In Mercury: The View After MESSENGER edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 6.


Stub icon

This article about the planet Mercury is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Lennon-Picasso_Basin, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.