Damer is a

crater Crater may refer to: Landforms *Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet *Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surfac ...

Mercury Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun * Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg * Mercury (mythology), a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to: Companies * Merc ...

in the

Shakespeare quadrangle The Shakespeare quadrangle is a region of Mercury running from 90 to 180° longitude and 20 to 70° latitude. It is also called Caduceata. The Borealis quadrangle is north of Shakespeare quadrangle. To the west is Raditladi quadrangle, and to t ...

. Its diameter is 60 km. It was named after the English sculptor

Anne Seymour Damer Anne Seymour Damer, ''née'' Conway, (26 October 1748 – 28 May 1828) was an English sculptor. Once described as a 'female genius' by Horace Walpole, she was trained in sculpture by Giuseppe Ceracchi and John Bacon. Influenced by the Enlighten ...

in 2013.

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Mariner 10 ''Mariner 10'' was an American Robotic spacecraft, robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury (planet), Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets. ''Ma ...

image with Damer in lower left Damer crater MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg, Approximate color image by MESSENGER Damer crater central peak EN1006465230M.jpg, Central peak complex of Damer, showing abundant hollows Damer crater hollow EN1067153134M.jpg, High-resolution image of one of the hollows (upper right) on the east side of the central peak. The image is about 2.8 km wide. Damer crater walls EN1026687033M.jpg, Close-up of the west wall

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