Beckett (crater)
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Photo of Beckett crater (center) by MESSENGER
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| Planet | Mercury |
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| Diameter | 55 km[1] |
| Eponym | Clarice Beckett |
Beckett is a pit-floored crater on Mercury, which was discovered in January 2008 during the first flyby of the planet by MESSENGER spacecraft.[2] Its floor is not smooth and displays a telephone or arc-shaped collapse feature, which is also called a central pit. The size of the pit is 35 × 7.5 km.[1] Such a feature may have resulted from the collapse of a magma chamber underlying the central part of the crater.[1] The collapse feature is an analog of Earth's volcanic calderas.[3]
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