Laxness | |
Globe: | Mercury |
Coordinates: | 83.27°N -50.04°W |
Diameter: | 25.89 km |
Eponym: | Halldór Laxness |
Laxness is a crater on Mercury, located near the north pole. It was named by the IAU in 2013, after Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness.[1]
S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area along the southern interior of Laxness, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit, and lies within the permanently shadowed part of the crater.[2]
Fuller crater is southeast of Laxness. Both lie in the northern part of the Goethe Basin.