Tags: Crater.

Matabei is an impact crater on Mercury. It has a set of dark rays. Dark rays are rare on Mercury but other occurrences have been identified such as at Mozart crater (imaged during MESSENGER’s first Mercury flyby). Mozart crater is interpreted to have excavated dark material from depth during the impact event creating dark streamers. The dark rays from Matabei may have a similar origin.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Matabei (crater)"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.