Tintoretto (crater)
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Tintoretto 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: Companies * Merc ...
. Its name was adopted by the IAU in 1976, after the Italian painter Tintoretto. 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. ''Ma ...
in 1974. Tintoretto is west of the larger crater Sōtatsu and southwest of Po Ya crater.


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