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Matisse (crater)
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Matisse is an impact crater
on the Southern hemisphere of Mercury
. Matisse takes its name from the French artist Henri Matisse.
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...
on the Southern hemisphere of Mercury
Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits...
. Matisse takes its name from the French artist Henri Matisse.