Sander is a
crater on
Mercury within
Caloris Basin
Caloris Planitia is a plain within a large impact basin on Mercury, informally named Caloris, about in diameter. It is one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System. "Calor" is Latin for "heat" and the basin is so-named because the Sun ...
. It has dark walls and bright patches on its floor. Unlike the rays of
Bashō crater, the bright areas are not believed to be immature, but they are inherently bright. It is named after the German photographer
August Sander (1876–1964).
Hollows are present within Sander. A confirmed ''dark spot'' is present in Sander.
[Zhiyong Xiao, Robert G. Strom, David T. Blewett, Paul K. Byrne, Sean C. Solomon, Scott L. Murchie, Ann L. Sprague, Deborah L. Domingue, Jörn Helbert, 2013. ''Dark spots on Mercury: A distinctive low-reflectance material and its relation to hollows''. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.]
doi.org/10.1002/jgre.20115
/ref> This dark spot is associated with the hollows.
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File:Sander crater EN0217906385M.jpg, Sander crater, showing the hollows
File:Sander crater MESSENGER NAC mosaic.jpg, Western Sander crater, with detail of the hollows on the crater floor
File:PIA19421-Mercury-Craters-MunchSanderPoe-20150416.jpg, Enhanced-color mosaic showing the craters Munch (left), Sander (center), and Poe (right)
References
Impact craters on Mercury
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