Sōtatsu is a crater on
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:
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. Its name was adopted by the
IAU in 1976, after the Japanese artist
Tawaraya Sōtatsu.
The crater was first imaged by
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.
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in 1974.
The craters
Tintoretto and
Po Ya are to the northwest of Sōtatsu.
References
Impact craters on Mercury
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