Fuller (crater)
Crater on Mercury / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fuller is a crater on Mercury, located near the north pole. It was named by the IAU in 2013, after American engineer and architect Richard Buckminster Fuller.[1]
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Planet | Mercury |
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Coordinates | 82.63°N 42.65°W / 82.63; -42.65 |
Quadrangle | Borealis |
Diameter | 26.97 km |
Eponym | Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area along the southern interior of Fuller, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit, and lies within the permanently shadowed part of the crater.[2]
Laxness crater is northwest of Fuller. Both lie in the northern part of the Goethe Basin.