Hals is a crater on

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. It has a diameter of 93 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the

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(IAU) in 1985. Hals is named for the Dutch painter

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

, who lived from 1581 to 1666. The crater

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is north of Hals. File:Hals crater EN1036363360M.jpg, Another MESSENGER NAC image File:Hawthorne crater region MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg, Approximate color image of the surface of Mercury including Hals crater. The prominent crater at right is

, and Hals is south of it. File:Michelangelo crater Hawthorne crater EW1026080636G.jpg, Oblique regional view with Hawthorne right of center and Hals next to it

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