Neruda quadrangle

Named after the Neruda crater, it was mapped in detail for the first time after MESSENGER entered orbit around Mercury in 2011.

It had not been mapped prior to that point because it was one of the six quadrangles that was not illuminated (with the exception of a narrow strip along the eastern border with the Michelangelo quadrangle) when Mariner 10 made its flybys in 1974 and 1975.

[1][2] In addition to Neruda crater, the eastern half of the Rembrandt basin is within the quadrangle.

Rembrandt is the second-largest impact basin on Mercury, after Caloris.

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