The crater Erte, the pseudonym of Romain de Tirtoff was a Russian-born French artist and designer who passed away in 1990. The crater that bears his name is a complex crater that is 48.5 km in diameter (30 miles). Here the flat floor of the crater meets the crater rim and the surrounding ejecta blanket.
Date acquired: April 20, 2013
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 8771355
Image ID: 3917367
Instrument: Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
Center Latitude: 28.14°
Center Longitude: 242.8° E
Resolution: 29 meters/pixel
Scale: The image is 44 km (27 miles) across.
Incidence Angle: 40.8°
Emission Angle: 20.4°
Phase Angle: 61.3°
Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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