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Degas (crater)

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Degas is a rayed crater on Mercury at latitude 37.5 N, longitude 127 W. It is 54 km (27 mi) wide and was named after the French impressionist painter Edgar Degas. [1]

14 relations: Brontë (Mercurian crater), Copyright status of work by the U.S. government, Damer (crater), Edgar Degas, Gibran (crater), Heine (crater), Impact crater, International Astronomical Union, Mariner 10, Mercury (planet), MESSENGER, Public domain, Ray system, Sobkou Planitia.

Brontë (Mercurian crater)

Brontë is a crater on Mercury.

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Copyright status of work by the U.S. government

A work of the United States government, as defined by the United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee" of the federal government "as part of that person's official duties." "A 'work of the United States Government' is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties." In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain.

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Damer (crater)

Damer is a crater on Mercury at latitude 36.36 N, longitude 115.81 W and is inside the Shakespeare quadrangle.

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Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas (or; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas,; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.

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Gibran (crater)

Gibran is a crater on Mercury and is in the east of the Shakespeare quadrangle.

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Heine (crater)

Heine is a crater on Mercury.

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Impact crater

An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet, moon, or other solid body in the Solar System or elsewhere, formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.

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Mariner 10

Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3, 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

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MESSENGER

Messenger (stylized as MESSENGER, whose backronym is "MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging", and which is a reference to the messenger of the same name from Roman mythology) was a NASA robotic spacecraft that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Ray system

A ray system comprises radial streaks of fine ejecta thrown out during the formation of an impact crater, looking somewhat like many thin spokes coming from the hub of a wheel.

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Sobkou Planitia

Sobkou Planitia is a large basin on Mercury.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degas_(crater)

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