Munkácsy (crater)

Munkácsy
Planet Mercury
Coordinates 21°54′N 259°06′W / 21.9°N 259.1°W / 21.9; -259.1Coordinates: 21°54′N 259°06′W / 21.9°N 259.1°W / 21.9; -259.1
Diameter 180 km
Eponym Mihály Munkácsy

Munkácsy is a crater on Mercury. Munkácsy originally had a double-ring basin structure, but most of the inner ring was buried when the basin was flooded with volcanic lava. Only a few remnants of the ring poke up through the lava, although low ridges in the lava seem to trace out much of the rest of the ring’s circumference.[1]

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