Munch | |
Location: | Raditladi quadrangle, Mercury |
Type: | Impact crater |
Coordinates: | 40.48°N -207.18°W |
Diameter: | [1] |
Eponym: | Edvard Munch |
Munch is a crater on Mercury. It was discovered on the first flyby of Mercury by the MESSENGER spacecraft on 14 January 2008, and was named after Edvard Munch a Norwegian painter, printmaker, and draftsman (1863-1944) by the IAU in November of the same year.[2]
Munch is west of Sander and Poe craters, within the Caloris basin.