Munkácsy (crater)

Munkácsy

Image from MESSENGER's first flyby in January 2008
Feature type	Peak-ring impact basin
Location	Raditladi quadrangle, Mercury
Coordinates	21°57′N 258°52′W / 21.95°N 258.86°W / 21.95; -258.86
Diameter	193 km (120 mi)
Eponym	Mihály Munkácsy

Munkácsy, named after Mihály 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] Munkácsy is one of 110 peak ring basins on Mercury.^[2]

The name of the crater was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2009. Munkácsy is named for the Hungarian painter Mihály Munkácsy.^[3]

The crater Fonteyn is to the northwest of Munkácsy, and the crater Raditladi is to the northeast.

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  Most of the crater
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  Mosaic across the central crater

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