Caloris Planitia (Mercury)
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Name (Latin)
Caloris Planitia (Mercury)
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Mercury (Planet)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1027437
Library of congress:
sh2007010860
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Shaded relief map of the Caloris Planitia area of Mercury, 1979.
- Gazetteer of planetary nomenclature.
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The Mighty Caloris (PIA19213)
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Wikipedia description:
Caloris Planitia (also known as the Caloris Basin) is a plain within a large impact basin on Mercury, informally named Caloris, about 1,550 km (960 mi) in diameter. It is one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System. "Calor" is Latin for "heat" and the basin is so-named because the Sun is almost directly overhead every second time Mercury passes perihelion. The crater, discovered in 1974, is surrounded by the Caloris Montes, a ring of mountains approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) tall.
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