List of craters on Mercury

Distribution of named craters in the Solar System since 2017Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Template:Efn

This is a list of named craters on Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System (for other features, see list of geological features on Mercury). Most Mercurian craters are named after famous writers, artists and composers. According to the rules by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, all new craters must be named after an artist that was famous for more than fifty years, and dead for more than three years, before the date they are named. Craters larger than 250 km in diameter are referred to as "basins" (also see Template:Section link).

since 2021Template:Dated maintenance category (articles), there are 414 named Mercurian craters, a small fraction of the total number of named Solar System craters, most of which are lunar, Martian and Venerian craters.Template:Efn

Other, non-planetary bodies with numerous named craters include Callisto (141), Ganymede (131), Rhea (128), Vesta (90), Ceres (90), Dione (73), Iapetus (58), Enceladus (53), Tethys (50) and Europa (41). For a full list, see List of craters in the Solar System.

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Map of named mercury craters since 2022Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)

A

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Abedin		116.23	2009	Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter	Template:WGPSN
Abu Nuwas		117	1976	Abu Nuwas, Arabic poet	Template:WGPSN
Africanus Horton		140	1976	Africanus Horton, Sierra Leonean writer	Template:WGPSN
Ahmad Baba		126	1979	Ahmad Baba al Massufi, West African writer	Template:WGPSN
Ailey		23	2012	Alvin Ailey, American choreographer	Template:WGPSN
Aksakov		174	2012	Sergey Aksakov, Russian author	Template:WGPSN
Akutagawa		106	2015	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Al-Akhtal		94.29	1985	Akhtal, Arab poet	Template:WGPSN
Alencar		106	1979	José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist	Template:WGPSN
Al-Hamadhani		164	1979	Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani, Arab writer	Template:WGPSN
Al-Jāhiz		83	1976	Al-Jahiz, Arab author	Template:WGPSN
Alver		151	2013	Betti Alver, Estonian poet	Template:WGPSN
Amaral		105	2008	Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian artist	Template:WGPSN
Amru Al-Qays		47	1976	Imru Al-Qays Ibn Hujr, Arabic poet	Template:WGPSN
Andal		109	1976	Aandaal, Tamil writer	Template:WGPSN
Aneirin		467	2014	Aneirin, Welsh poet (6th century)	Template:WGPSN
Angelou		18	2019	Maya Angelou, American author and poet	Template:WGPSN
Anguissola		35	2017	Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Anyte		20	2017	Anyte of Tegea, Greek poet	Template:WGPSN
Apollodorus		41	2008	Apollodorus of Damascus, Ancient Greek architect	Template:WGPSN
Aristoxenus		52	1979	Aristoxenus, Ancient Greek writer	Template:WGPSN
Asawa		130	2024	Ruth Aiko Asawa, Japanese-American sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Aśvaghoṣa		88	1976	Aśvaghoṣa, Sanskrit, poet	Template:WGPSN
Atget		100	2008	Eugène Atget, French photographer	Template:WGPSN

B

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Bach		214.29	1976	Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Bagryana		101	2015	Elisaveta Bagryana, Bulgarian poet	Template:WGPSN
Balagtas		104	1976	Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet	Template:WGPSN
Balanchine		38	2012	George Balanchine, Georgian choreographer	Template:WGPSN
Baranauskas		36	2015	Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian poet	Template:WGPSN
Barney		29	2013	Natalie Clifford Barney, American-French playwright, poet, and novelist	Template:WGPSN
Balzac		67	1976	Honoré de Balzac, French writer	Template:WGPSN
Bartók		118	1979	Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer	Template:WGPSN
Barma		123	1982	Postnik "Barma" Yakovlev, Russian architect	Template:WGPSN
Bashō		75	1979	Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet	Template:WGPSN
Bechet		17.6	2013	Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician and composer	Template:WGPSN
Beckett		60	2008	Clarice Beckett, Australian painter	Template:WGPSN
Beethoven		630	1976	Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Bek		32	2010	Bek, Egyptian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Belinskij		70.67	1985	Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic	Template:WGPSN
Bellini		45	2019	Giovanni Bellini, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Bello		139	1976	Andrés Bello, Venezuelan writer	Template:WGPSN
Benoit		40	2009	Rigaud Benoit, Haitian artist	Template:WGPSN
Berkel		23	2009	Sabri Berkel, Turkish painter	Template:WGPSN
Berlioz		31.44	2013	Hector Berlioz, French composer	Template:WGPSN
Bernini		168.13	1976	Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Berry		25	2020	Chuck Berry, American singer and songwriter	Template:WGPSN
Bilokur		67	2024	Kateryna Bilokur, Ukrainian painter	Template:WGPSN
Bjornson		75.93	1985	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian poet	Template:WGPSN
Boccaccio		151.95	1976	Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer	Template:WGPSN
Boethius		114	1976	Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Roman philosopher	Template:WGPSN
Botticelli		136.35	1979	Sandro Botticelli, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
Boznańska		72	2015	Olga Boznańska, Polish painter	Template:WGPSN
Brahms		100	1979	Johannes Brahms, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Bramante		156	1976	Donato Bramante, Italian architect	Template:WGPSN
Brontë		68	1976	The Brontë family, English writers and artists	Template:WGPSN
Brooks		34	2015	Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet and novelist	Template:WGPSN
Bruegel		72	1985	Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter	Template:WGPSN
Brunelleschi		128.57	1976	Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect	Template:WGPSN
Bunin		37	2019	Ivan Bunin, Russian author	Template:WGPSN
Burke		28.5	2015	Billie Burke, American actress	Template:WGPSN
Burns		43	1985	Robert Burns, Scottish poet	Template:WGPSN
Byron		106.58	1976	Lord Byron, English poet	Template:WGPSN

C

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Calder		24	2013	Alexander Calder, American sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Callicrates		68	1976	Kallicrates, Ancient Greek architect	Template:WGPSN
Calvino		67	2009	Italo Calvino, Italian writer	Template:WGPSN
Camões		70	1976	Luís de Camões, Portuguese writer	Template:WGPSN
Canova		46	2018	Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Capote		88	2013	Truman Capote, American Author	Template:WGPSN
Caravaggio		185	2013	Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Carducci		108.19	1976	Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet	Template:WGPSN
Carleton		177	2018	William Carleton, Irish writer	Template:WGPSN
Carolan		24.34	2015	Turlough Carolan, Irish composer and performer	Template:WGPSN
Caruso		31	2013	Enrico Caruso, Italian singer	Template:WGPSN
Carvalho		90		Beth Carvalho, Brazilian musician	Template:WGPSN
Castiglione		80	2015	Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Catullus		100.2	2012	Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet	Template:WGPSN
Cervantes		213.16	1976	Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer	Template:WGPSN
Cézanne		67	1985	Paul Cézanne, French painter	Template:WGPSN
Chaikovskij		171	1976	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Chao Meng-Fu		140.73	1976	Zhao Mengfu, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Chekhov		194	1976	Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and writer	Template:WGPSN
Chesterton		37.23	2012	Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English author	Template:WGPSN
[[Chiang KTemplate:Wg-aposui (crater)|Chiang KTemplate:Wg-aposui]]		41	1976	Jiang Kui, Chinese poet	Template:WGPSN
[[Chŏng ChTemplate:Hamzaŏl (crater)|Chŏng ChTemplate:Hamzaŏl]]		143	1979	Chŏng Ch'ŏl, Korean poet	Template:WGPSN
Chopin		131	1976	Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer	Template:WGPSN
Chu Ta		100	1976	Zhu Da, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN
Codesido		64	2024	Julia Codesido, Peruvian painter	Template:WGPSN
Coleridge		112	1976	Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Copland		208	2010	Aaron Copland, American composer	Template:WGPSN
Copley		34	1976	John Singleton Copley, American painter	Template:WGPSN
Couperin		80	1979	The Couperin family of French musicians	Template:WGPSN
Cunningham		37	2008	Imogen Cunningham, American photographer	Template:WGPSN

D

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Dali		176	2008	Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter	Template:WGPSN
Damer		60	2013	Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Darío		151	1976	Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer	Template:WGPSN
David		23	2013	Jacques-Louis David, French painter	Template:WGPSN
de Graft		68	2009	Joe de Graft, Ghanaian playwright	Template:WGPSN
Debussy		81	2010	Claude Debussy, French composer	Template:WGPSN
Degas		54	1979	Edgar Degas, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Delacroix		158	1979	Eugène Delacroix, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Derain		167	2009	André Derain, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Derzhavin		156	1979	Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet	Template:WGPSN
Despréz		47.05	1979	Josquin des Prez, Franco-Flemish composer	Template:WGPSN
Dickens		77.31	1976	Charles Dickens, English novelist	Template:WGPSN
Disney		113	2012	Walt Disney, American animator	Template:WGPSN
Dominici		20	2010	Maria de Dominici, Maltese painter	Template:WGPSN
Donelaitis		85	2013	Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet	Template:WGPSN
Donne		86	1976	John Donne, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Dostoevskij		430.06	1979	Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist	Template:WGPSN
Dowland		158	1979	John Dowland, English composer	Template:WGPSN
Driscoll		30	2015	Clara Driscoll, American artist	Template:WGPSN
Duccio		132	2013	Duccio di Buoninsegna, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Du Fu		33	2015	Du Fu, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Dürer		195	1976	Albrecht Dürer, German artist	Template:WGPSN
Dvorák		75	1976	Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer	Template:WGPSN

E

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Eastman		67	2009	Charles Eastman, Sioux author	Template:WGPSN
Echegaray		63	1985	José Echegaray, Spanish dramatist	Template:WGPSN
Egonu		25	2012	Uzo Egonu, Nigerian artist	Template:WGPSN
Eitoku		101	1976	Kanō Eitoku, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN
El Husseini		87	2024	Jumana El Husseini, Palestinian painter and sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Ellington		216	2012	Duke Ellington, American musician	Template:WGPSN
Eminescu		129	2008	Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet	Template:WGPSN
Enheduanna		105	2015	Enheduanna, Sumerian poet	Template:WGPSN
Enwonwu		38	2008	Ben Enwonwu, Nigerian painter	Template:WGPSN
Ensor		24.92	2013	James Ensor, Belgian painter	Template:WGPSN
Equiano		102	1976	Olaudah Equiano, Benin writer	Template:WGPSN
Erté		48.5	2013	Erté, Russian-born French artist	Template:WGPSN

F

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Faulkner		168	2012	William Faulkner, American author	Template:WGPSN
Fet		79	1985	Afanasy Fet, Russian poet	Template:WGPSN
Firdousi		98	2010	Hakim Ferdowsi, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Flaubert		95	1985	Gustave Flaubert, French author	Template:WGPSN
Flaiano		43	2013	Ennio Flaiano, Italian author	Template:WGPSN
Fonteyn		29	2012	Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer	Template:WGPSN
Freire		51	2024	María Freire, Uruguayan painter	Template:WGPSN
Fuller		26.97	2013	Richard Buckminster Fuller, American engineer and architect	Template:WGPSN
Futabatei		57	1976	Futabatei Shimei, Japanese author	Template:WGPSN

G

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Gainsborough		95	1985	Thomas Gainsborough, English painter	Template:WGPSN
Gaudí		81	2012	Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, Spanish Catalan architect	Template:WGPSN
Gauguin		70	1979	Paul Gauguin, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Geddes		84	2010	Wilhelmina Geddes, Irish stained glass artist	Template:WGPSN
Ghiberti		110	1976	Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Giambologna		69	2013	Giambologna, Flemish sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Gibran		106	2009	Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American poet and artist	Template:WGPSN
Giotto		144	1976	Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Glinka		89	2008	Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Gluck		100	1979	Christoph Willibald Gluck, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Goethe		317.17	1979	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer	Template:WGPSN
Gogol		79	1985	Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright	Template:WGPSN
Gordimer		58	2019	Nadine Gordimer, South African writer	Template:WGPSN
Goya		138	1976	Francisco Goya, Spanish artist	Template:WGPSN
Grainger		113	2012	Percy Grainger, Australian composer	Template:WGPSN
Grieg		59	1985	Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer	Template:WGPSN
Grotell		48.25	2012	Maija Grotell, Finnish and American ceramist	Template:WGPSN
Guido d'Arezzo		58	1976	Guido of Arezzo, Italian music theorist	Template:WGPSN

H

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Hafiz		280	2014	Hafiz of Shiraz, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Halim		44	2024	Tahia Halim, Egyptian painter	Template:WGPSN
Hals		93	1985	Frans Hals, Dutch painter	Template:WGPSN
Han Kan		50	1985	Han Gan, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN
Handel		138	1976	George Frideric Handel, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Harunobu		107	1976	Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN
Hauptmann		118	1985	Gerhart Hauptmann, German playwright	Template:WGPSN
Hawthorne		120	1979	Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist	Template:WGPSN
Haydn		251	1976	Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Heaney		125	2017	Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright	Template:WGPSN
Heine		73	1979	Heinrich Heine, German poet	Template:WGPSN
Hemingway		126	2009	Ernest Hemingway, American writer	Template:WGPSN
Henri		163.8	2012	Robert Henri, American painter	Template:WGPSN
Hesiod		101	1976	Hesiod, Ancient Greek poet	Template:WGPSN
Hiroshige		138	1976	Andō Hiroshige, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN
Hitomaro		105	1976	Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japanese poet	Template:WGPSN
Hodgkins		19	2009	Frances Hodgkins, New Zealand painter	Template:WGPSN
Hokusai		114	2010	Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Holbein		115	1979	Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist	Template:WGPSN
Holberg		64	1976	Ludvig Holberg, Danish writer	Template:WGPSN
Holst		170	2012	Gustav Holst, British composer	Template:WGPSN
Homer		319	1976	Homer Simpson, Character in The Simpsons	Template:WGPSN
Hopper		36	2012	Edward Hopper, American painter	Template:WGPSN
Horace		56	1976	Horace, Roman poet	Template:WGPSN
Hovnatanian		34	2008	Hakob Hovnatanian, Armenian painter	Template:WGPSN
Hugo		206	1979	Victor Hugo, French writer	Template:WGPSN
Hun Kal		0.93	1976	'20' in the language of the Maya (serves as Mercury's a meridian reference point)	Template:WGPSN
Hurley		67	2013	Frank Hurley, Australian photographer	Template:WGPSN

I

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Ibsen		159	1976	Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright	Template:WGPSN
Ictinus		58.03	1976	Iktinos, Ancient Greek architect	Template:WGPSN
Imhotep		159	1976	Imhotep, Ancient Egyptian architect	Template:WGPSN
Ives		18	1979	Charles Ives, American composer	Template:WGPSN
Izquierdo		174	2009	María Izquierdo, Mexican painter	Template:WGPSN

J

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Janáček		47	1985	Leoš Janáček, Czech composer	Template:WGPSN
Jiménez		27	2019	Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and author	Template:WGPSN
Jókai		93	1979	Mór Jókai, Hungarian writer	Template:WGPSN
Jobim		167	2015	Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer	Template:WGPSN
Joplin		139	2012	Scott Joplin, American composer	Template:WGPSN
Josetsu		30	2019	Taikō Josetsu, Japanese ink painter	Template:WGPSN
Judah Ha-Levi		85	1976	Yehuda Halevi, Spanish-Jewish writer	Template:WGPSN

K

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Kandinsky		60	2012	Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter	Template:WGPSN
Karsh		58	2015	Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer	Template:WGPSN
Kālidāsā		160	1976	Kālidāsa, Sanskrit writer	Template:WGPSN
Keats		107.85	1976	John Keats, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Kenkō		105	1976	Yoshida Kenkō, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Kerouac		110	2015	Jack Kerouac, American writer	Template:WGPSN
Kertész		32	2008	André Kertész, Hungarian photographer	Template:WGPSN
Khansa		113	1976	Al-Khansa, Arabic poet	Template:WGPSN
Kipling		164	2010	Rudyard Kipling, English author	Template:WGPSN
Kirby		31	2019	Jack Kirby, American illustrator	Template:WGPSN
Kobro		54	2012	Katarzyna Kobro, Polish sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Kofi		136	2012	Vincent Kofi, Ghanaian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Komeda		54	2012	Krzysztof Komeda, Polish composer	Template:WGPSN
Kōshō		64	1985	Kōshō, Japanese sculptor	Template:WGPSN
[[Kuan Han-ChTemplate:Wg-aposing (crater)|Kuan Han-ChTemplate:Wg-aposing]]		143	1979	Guan Hanqing, Chinese playwright	Template:WGPSN
Kuiper		62	1976	Gerard Kuiper, American astronomer	Template:WGPSN
Kulthum		31	2015	Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer	Template:WGPSN
Kunisada		241.45	2009	Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese woodblock printmaker	Template:WGPSN
Kuniyoshi		27	2014	Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese painter and printmaker	Template:WGPSN
Kurosawa		152	1976	Kinko Kurosawa, Japanese musician	Template:WGPSN
Kyōsai		39	2012	Kawanabe Kyōsai, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN

L

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Lange		176.23	2009	Dorothea Lange, American photographer	Template:WGPSN
Larrocha		196	2013	Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist	Template:WGPSN
Laxness		25.89	2013	Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer	Template:WGPSN
Le Guin		61	2024	Ursula K. Le Guin, American author	Template:WGPSN
L'Engle		62	2013	Madeleine L'Engle, American author	Template:WGPSN
Lennon		95	2013	John Lennon, former Beatles member	Template:WGPSN
Lennon-Picasso Basin		1450	2018	John Lennon and Pablo Picasso
Leopardi		71.45	1976	Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer	Template:WGPSN
Lermontov		166	1976	Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer	Template:WGPSN
Lessing		95	1985	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German dramatist	Template:WGPSN
[[Li ChTemplate:Wg-aposing-Chao (crater)|Li ChTemplate:Wg-aposing-Chao]]		69	1976	Li Qingzhao, Chinese writer	Template:WGPSN
Li Po		126	1976	Li Bai, Chinese poet	Template:WGPSN
[[Liang KTemplate:Wg-aposai (crater)|Liang KTemplate:Wg-aposai]]		145	1979	Liang Kai, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Lismer		139.12	2012	Arthur Lismer, Canadian painter	Template:WGPSN
Liszt		79	1985	Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer	Template:WGPSN
Lorde		45	2022	Audre Lorde, American writer	Template:WGPSN
Lovecraft		51.97	2013	H. P. Lovecraft, American author	Template:WGPSN
Lu Hsun		96	1976	Lu Xun, Chinese writer	Template:WGPSN
Lysippus		155	1976	Lysippos, Ancient Greek sculptor	Template:WGPSN

M

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Ma Chih-Yuan		197	1976	Ma Zhiyuan, Chinese writer	Template:WGPSN
Machaut		104	1976	Guillaume de Machaut, French poet and composer	Template:WGPSN
MacNicol		42	2022	Bessie MacNicol, Scottish painter	Template:WGPSN
Magritte		149	2012	René Magritte, Belgian painter	Template:WGPSN
Mahler		104	1976	Gustav Mahler, Bohemian composer	Template:WGPSN
Mansart		84.97	1979	Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect	Template:WGPSN
Mansur		95	1979	Ustad Mansur, Mughal artist	Template:WGPSN
March		83	1979	Ausiàs March, Catalan poet	Template:WGPSN
Mark Twain		142	1976	Mark Twain, American novelist	Template:WGPSN
Martí		69.48	1976	José Martí, Cuban writer	Template:WGPSN
Martins		12.4	2019	Maria Martins, Brazilian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Martial		51	1979	Martial, Roman poet	Template:WGPSN
Matabei		24	2009	Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Matisse		189.04	1976	Henri Matisse, French painter	Template:WGPSN
Melville		146	1976	Herman Melville, American novelist	Template:WGPSN
Mena		15	1976	Juan de Mena, Spanish poet	Template:WGPSN
Mendelssohn		291	2012	Felix Mendelssohn, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Mendes Pinto		192	1976	Fernão Mendes Pinto, Portuguese writer	Template:WGPSN
Michelangelo		229.71	1979	Michelangelo, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
Mickiewicz		103	1976	Adam Mickiewicz, Polish writer	Template:WGPSN
Milton		180.85	1976	John Milton, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Mistral		102	1976	Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet	Template:WGPSN
Mofolo		103	1976	Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer	Template:WGPSN
Molière		139	1976	Molière, French playwright	Template:WGPSN
Monet		203	1979	Claude Monet, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Monk		12	2013	Thelonious Monk, American jazz musician	Template:WGPSN
Monteverdi		134	1979	Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer	Template:WGPSN
Moody		83	2008	Ronald Moody, Jamaican painter	Template:WGPSN
Morrison		35	2022	Toni Morrison; American author	Template:WGPSN
Mozart		241	1976	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Munch		57	2008	Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter	Template:WGPSN
Munkácsy		193	2009	Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter	Template:WGPSN
Murasaki		132	1976	Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Mussorgskij		115	1979	Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Myron		25	1979	Myron, Ancient Greek sculptor	Template:WGPSN

N

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Nabokov		166	2012	Vladimir Nabokov, Russian and American writer	Template:WGPSN
Nairne		56	2022	Carolina Nairne, Scottish songwriter	Template:WGPSN
Namatjira		34	2015	Albert Namatjira, Australian Aboriginal artist	Template:WGPSN
Nampeyo		49	1976	Nampeyo, Hopi potter	Template:WGPSN
Navoi		69	2008	Ali-Shir Nava'i, Uzbek poet	Template:WGPSN
Nāwahī		38	2008	Joseph Nāwahī, Hawaiian painter	Template:WGPSN
Neruda		112	2008	Jan Neruda, Czech poet and writer, and Johann Baptist Georg Neruda, Czech composer	Template:WGPSN
Nervo		66	1979	Amado Nervo, Mexican poet	Template:WGPSN
Neumann		122	1976	Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect	Template:WGPSN
Nizāmī		77	1979	Nizami, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Nureyev		16	2012	Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet and British ballet dancer	Template:WGPSN

O

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Ōkyo		66	1985	Maruyama Ōkyo, Japanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Oskison		122	2008	John Milton Oskison, Cherokee author	Template:WGPSN
Ovid		41	1976	Ovid, Roman poet	Template:WGPSN

P

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Pahinui		54	2013	Gabby Pahinui, Hawaiian slack-key guitarist and singer	Template:WGPSN
Pasch		37	2012	Ulrika Pasch, Swedish painter	Template:WGPSN
Petipa		12	2012	Marius Petipa, French and Russian choreographer and dancer	Template:WGPSN
Petőfi		61	2013	Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet	Template:WGPSN
Petrarch		167	1976	Petrarch, Italian poet	Template:WGPSN
Petronius		36	2012	Petronius, Roman author	Template:WGPSN
Phidias		168	1976	Phidias, Ancient Greek artist and architect	Template:WGPSN
Philoxenus		87	1976	Philoxenus of Cythera, Ancient Greek poet	Template:WGPSN
Piazzolla		38	2024	Astor Piazzolla, Argentinian tango composer	Template:WGPSN
Picasso		134	2010	Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter	Template:WGPSN
Pigalle		153	1976	Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Plath		35	2015	Sylvia Plath, American poet	Template:WGPSN
Po Chü-I		70	1976	Bai Juyi, Chinese poet	Template:WGPSN
Po Ya		101	1976	Bo Ya, Chinese musician	Template:WGPSN
Poe		77	2008	Edgar Allan Poe, American poet	Template:WGPSN
Polygnotus		124	1976	Polygnotus, Ancient Greek painter	Template:WGPSN
Popova		34	2012	Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and designer	Template:WGPSN
Praxiteles		198	1979	Praxiteles, Ancient Greek sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Prokofiev		112	2012	Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Proust		145	1976	Marcel Proust, French novelist	Template:WGPSN
Puccini		76	1976	Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer	Template:WGPSN
Purcell		87.67	1979	Henry Purcell, English composer	Template:WGPSN
Pushkin		232	1976	Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet	Template:WGPSN

Q

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Qi Baishi		15	2008	Qi Baishi, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN
Qiu Ying		20	2012	Qiu Ying, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN

R

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Rabelais		154	1976	François Rabelais, French writer	Template:WGPSN
Rachmaninoff		305	2010	Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Raden Saleh		23	2008	Raden Saleh, Javanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Raditladi		258	2008	Leetile Disang Raditladi, Botswanan writer	Template:WGPSN
Rajnis		80	1976	Rainis, Latvian writer	Template:WGPSN
Remarque		25.9	2013	Erich Maria Remarque, German author	Template:WGPSN
Rameau		58	1976	Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer	Template:WGPSN
Raphael		342	1976	Raphael, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
Ravel		78	1985	Maurice Ravel, French composer	Template:WGPSN
Rembrandt		716	2009	Rembrandt, Dutch artist	Template:WGPSN
Renoir		220	1976	Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Repin		95	1976	Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian artist	Template:WGPSN
Riemenschneider		183	1979	Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Rilke		82	1976	Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet	Template:WGPSN
Rimbaud		78	1985	Arthur Rimbaud, French poet	Template:WGPSN
Rikyū		22.4	2013	Sen no Rikyū, Japanese tea master	Template:WGPSN
Rivera		40	2015	Diego Rivera, Mexican painter	Template:WGPSN
Rizal		64	2019	José Rizal, Filipino writer	Template:WGPSN
Rodin		230	1976	Auguste Rodin, French sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Roerich		111.67	2013	Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter	Template:WGPSN
Rubens		158	1979	Peter Paul Rubens, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Rublev		129	1976	Andrei Rublev, Russian icon painter	Template:WGPSN
Rūdaki		124	1976	Rudaki, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Rude		68	1985	François Rude, French sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Rūmī		75	1985	Mawlana Rumi, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Rustaveli		200	2012	Shota Rustaveli, Georgian poet	Template:WGPSN
Ruysch		64	2013	Rachel Ruysch, Netherland painter	Template:WGPSN

S

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Sadī		66.54	1976	Saadi, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Saikaku		64	1979	Ihara Saikaku, Japanese poet	Template:WGPSN
Sander		47	2008	August Sander, German photographer	Template:WGPSN
Sanai		490	2014	Sanai, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Sapkota		27.4	2015	Mahananda Sapkota, Nepalese poet	Template:WGPSN
Sarmiento		95	1979	Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentinian writer	Template:WGPSN
Savage		93	2013	Augusta Savage, American sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Sayat-Nova		146	1979	Sayat-Nova, Armenian poet	Template:WGPSN
Scarlatti		132	1979	Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composers	Template:WGPSN
Schoenberg		28	1976	Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Schubert		190	1976	Franz Schubert, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Scopas		83.16	1976	Scopas, Ancient Greek sculptor and architect	Template:WGPSN
Sei		137	1976	Sei Shōnagon, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Seuss		64	2012	Theodor Seuss Geisel, American author and cartoonist	Template:WGPSN
Shakespeare		399	1979	William Shakespeare, English writer	Template:WGPSN
Shelley		171	1979	Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Sher-Gil		77	2008	Amrita Sher-Gil, Indian painter	Template:WGPSN
Shevchenko		143	1976	Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet	Template:WGPSN
Sholem Aleichem		196	1979	Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish writer	Template:WGPSN
Sibelius		94	1985	Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer	Template:WGPSN
Simonides		87	1985	Simonides of Ceos, Greek poet	Template:WGPSN
Sinan		134	1976	Mimar Sinan, Turkish architect	Template:WGPSN
Smetana		191	1985	Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer	Template:WGPSN
Snorri		21	1976	Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic poet	Template:WGPSN
Sophocles		142	1976	Sophocles, Ancient Greek dramatist	Template:WGPSN
Sor Juana		102	1979	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican writer	Template:WGPSN
Sōseki		92	1985	Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist	Template:WGPSN
Sōtatsu		157	1976	Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN
Sousa		138	2012	John Philip Sousa, American bandmaster and composer	Template:WGPSN
Spitteler		67	1976	Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet	Template:WGPSN
Steichen		196	2010	Edward Steichen, American photographer	Template:WGPSN
Stevenson		134	2012	Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author	Template:WGPSN
Stieglitz		100	2012	Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer	Template:WGPSN
Strauss		17	2019	Strauss family of musicians	Template:WGPSN
Stravinsky		129	1979	Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Strindberg		189	1979	August Strindberg, Swedish writer	Template:WGPSN
Sullivan		153.23	1976	Louis Sullivan, American architect	Template:WGPSN
Sūr Dās		131	1979	Sur, Hindu, poet	Template:WGPSN
Surikov		224	1979	Vasily Surikov, Russian artist	Template:WGPSN
Sveinsdóttir		212.79	2008	Júlíana Sveinsdóttir, Icelandic artist	Template:WGPSN

T

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Takanobu		72	1985	Fujiwara no Takanobu, Japanese poet	Template:WGPSN
Takayoshi		136	1979	Fujiwara no Takayoshi, Japanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Tansen		27	1976	Tansen, Hindustani composer	Template:WGPSN
Thākur		111	1976	Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer	Template:WGPSN
Theophanes		46	1976	Theophanes the Greek, icon painter	Template:WGPSN
Thoreau		72	1985	Henry David Thoreau, American poet	Template:WGPSN
Tintoretto		94	1976	Tintoretto, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
Titian		109	1976	Titian, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
To Ngoc Van		71	2009	To Ngoc Van, Vietnamese painter	Template:WGPSN
Tolkien		50	2012	J. R. R. Tolkien, English writer	Template:WGPSN
Tolstoj		355	1976	Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer	Template:WGPSN
Travers		164	2018	Pamela Lyndon Travers, British writer	Template:WGPSN
[[TsTemplate:Wg-aposai Wen-Chi (crater)|TsTemplate:Wg-aposai Wen-Chi]]		124	1976	Cai Wenji, Chinese poet and composer	Template:WGPSN
[[TsTemplate:Wg-aposao Chan (crater)|TsTemplate:Wg-aposao Chan]]		110	1976	Cao Xueqin, Chinese novelist	Template:WGPSN
Tsurayuki		83	1976	Ki no Tsurayuki, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Tung Yüan		60.46	1979	Dong Yuan, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Turgenev		136	1979	Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer	Template:WGPSN
Tyagaraja		97	1976	Tyāgarāja, Indian composer	Template:WGPSN
Tryggvadóttir		31	2012	Nína Tryggvadóttir, Icelandic artist	Template:WGPSN

U

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Unkei		121	1976	Unkei, Japanese sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Ustad Isa		138	1979	Ustad Isa, architect	Template:WGPSN

V

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Vālmiki		210	1976	Valmiki, Indian poet	Template:WGPSN
Van Dijck		101.53	1979	Anthony van Dyck, Flemish artist	Template:WGPSN
Van Eyck		271	1979	Jan van Eyck, Flemish artist	Template:WGPSN
Van Gogh		99	1976	Vincent van Gogh, Dutch artist	Template:WGPSN
Varma		30	2013	Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter	Template:WGPSN
Vazov		33	2020	Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet	Template:WGPSN
Velázquez		128	1979	Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter	Template:WGPSN
Verdi		145	1979	Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer	Template:WGPSN
Veronese		45	2021	Paolo Veronese, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Vieira da Silva		274	2013	Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French painter	Template:WGPSN
Villa-Lobos		67	2015	Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer	Template:WGPSN
Vincente		108	1979	Gil Vicente, Portuguese writer	Template:WGPSN
Vivaldi		213	1976	Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer	Template:WGPSN
Vlaminck		82	1985	Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter	Template:WGPSN
Vonnegut		26.61	2017	Kurt Vonnegut, American writer	Template:WGPSN
Vyāsa		297	1979	Vyasa, Indian poet	Template:WGPSN

W

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Wagner		134	1976	Richard Wagner, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Wang Meng		165	1976	Wang Meng, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Warhol		91	2012	Andy Warhol, American artist	Template:WGPSN
Waters		15	2012	Muddy Waters, American musician	Template:WGPSN
Wen Tianxiang		166.42	2020	Wen Tianxiang, Chinese poet	Template:WGPSN
Wergeland		42	1976	Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer	Template:WGPSN
Whitman		64	1985	Walt Whitman, American poet	Template:WGPSN
Wren		204	1979	Christopher Wren, English architect	Template:WGPSN
Wu Shujuan		109	2024	Wu Shujuan, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN

X

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Xiao Zhao		24	2008	Xiao Zhao, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN

Y

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Yamada		17.1	2015	Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor	Template:WGPSN
Yeats		92	1976	William Butler Yeats, Irish poet	Template:WGPSN
Yoshikawa		30	2012	Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist	Template:WGPSN
Yun Sŏn-Do		76	1976	Yun Sŏndo, Korean poet	Template:WGPSN

Z

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Zeami		129	1976	Zeami Motokiyo, Japanese playwright	Template:WGPSN
Zola		70	1979	Émile Zola, French novelist	Template:WGPSN

Terminology

As on the Moon and Mars, sequences of craters and basins of differing relative ages provide the best means of establishing stratigraphic order on Mercury. Overlap relations among many large mercurian craters and basins are clearer than those on the Moon. Therefore, as this map shows, we can build up many local stratigraphic columns involving both crater or basin materials and nearby plains materials.

Over all of Mercury, the crispness of crater rims and the morphology of their walls, central peaks, ejecta deposits, and secondary-crater fields have undergone systematic changes with time. The youngest craters or basins in a local stratigraphic sequence have the sharpest, crispest appearance. The oldest craters consist only of shallow depressions with slightly raised, rounded rims, some incomplete. On this basis, five age categories of craters and basins have been mapped; the characteristics of each are listed in the explanation. In addition, secondary crater fields are preserved around proportionally far more craters and basins on Mercury than on the Moon or Mars, and are particularly useful in determining overlap relations and degree of modification.

Because only limited photographic evidence was available from Mariner 10Template:'s three flybys of the planet, these divisions are often tentative. The five crater groups, from youngest to oldest, are:

• c5: Fresh-appearing, sharp-rimmed, rayed craters. Highest albedo in map area; haloes and rays may extend many crater diameters from rim crests. Superposed on all other map units. Generally smaller and fewer than older craters.
• c4: Fresh but slightly modified craters—Similar in morphology to c5 craters but without bright haloes or rays; sharp rim crests; continuous ejecta blankets; very few superposed secondary craters. Floors consist of crater or smooth plains materials.
• c3: Modified craters—Rim crest continuous but slightly rounded and subdued. Ejecta blanket generally less extensive than those of younger craters of similar size. Superposed craters and rays common; smooth plains and intermediate plains materials cover floors of many craters. Central peaks more common than in c4 craters, probably because of larger average size of c3 craters.
• c2: Subdued craters—Low-rimmed, relatively shallow craters, many with discontinuous rim crests. Floors covered by smooth plains and intermediate plains materials. Crater density of ejecta blankets similar to that of intermediate plains material.
• c1 Degraded craters—Similar to c2 crater material but more deteriorated; many superposed craters.

See also

• List of geological features on Mercury
• List of quadrangles on Mercury

References

• Batson R.M., Russell J.F. (1994), Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2129 [1]
• Davies M.E., Dwornik S.E., Gault D.E., Strom R.G. (1978), Atlas of Mercury, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office [2]

External links

• USGS: Mercury nomenclature
• USGS: Mercury Nomenclature: Craters
• Atlas of Mercury