Renoir (crater)

Renoir is a crater on the planet Mercury. Its name, after the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.[1]

Renoir
Renoir crater as seen by the MESSENGER spacecraft
PlanetMercury
Coordinates18.29°S 51.89°W / -18.29; -51.89
QuadrangleKuiper quadrangle
Diameter220 km
EponymPierre-Auguste Renoir

Renoir is a peak-ring basin on Mercury, one of several, including Raditladi Basin and Rachmaninoff. Though these basins are relatively young geologic features, Renoir is one of the oldest of its type. Because of its greater age, Renoir displays more of the effects of tectonics and later impact events than the other peak ring impact basins.[2] It is thought to have formed at the end of the period with the highest meteor impact rates in Mercury's history. It is located in the Kuiper quadrangle.[3] Renoir also has an area of high reflectance, classified as a plain, resulting from previous volcanic activity on the planet.[4] Like Rachmaninoff, it is a basin with a high-reflectance plain located entirely within the central peak ring.[5]

Renoir has a concentric ring structure, meaning that it is also called a "concentric ring basin".[6] Its interior rim is distinct, however, similar basins usually have a more distinct outer rim than inner rim. Basins like Renoir are known for having deep valleys in and around them. Mercury's lower radius and mass compared to other bodies like Mars mean that its basins - including Renoir and Rodin - have a greater diameter; consequently, the multi-ring basins on bodies like the Moon, including basins like Hertzsprung and Mare Orientale, are even larger than those on Mercury.[6]

Views
  • Regional approximate color image with Renoir below center
  • Central Renoir - note the dark parts of the peak ring
  • Oblique view of southern Renoir

References
  1. "Renoir". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. International Astronomical Union and Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  2. "Peak-Ringed Renoir". NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. 17 August 2012. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  3. De Hon, R.A.; Scott, D.H.; Underwood, J.R., Jr. (1981). "Geologic Map of the Kuiper (H-6) Quadrangle of Mercury". NASA, US Geologic Survey. Retrieved 7 May 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Lakdawalla, Emily (12 March 2010). "LPSC: Wrapping up Tuesday: The Moon, Mars, Mercury, Vesta, and back to Mars". The Planetary Society. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  5. Prockter, Louise M.; Ernst, Carolyn M.; Denevi, Brett W.; Chapman, Clark R.; Head, James W., III (6 August 2010). Sean C. Solomon, Thomas R. Watters, Robert G. Strom, Gabriele Cremonese, Simone Marchi, Matteo Massironi. "Evidence for Young Volcanism on Mercury from the Third MESSENGER Flyby". Science. 329 (5992): 668–671. Bibcode:2010Sci...329..668P. doi:10.1126/science.1188186. PMID 20647421. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  6. Rodionova, Z.F.; Skobeleva, T.P. (1980). "Multi-Ring Basins on the Moon, Mars and Mercury". Lunar and Planetary Science: 949–951. Bibcode:1980LPI....11..949R.
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