![]() ![]() ![]() The ray system of Debussy is the second most prominent on Mercury after that of Hokusai. It has a diameter of about 85 km, while the rays extend hundreds of kilometers, covering much of the southern hemisphere. ĭebussy is named after Claude Debussy (1862–1918), one of the most important French composers, who worked in the field of the impressionist music. The bright appearance of rays in the radar images indicates that the crater is geologically young, because fresh and rough surfaces of young impact craters are good scatterers of radio waves. The crater was initially known as the feature A. Later in 1990–2005 it was imaged in more detail by the Arecibo Observatory. Debussy crater, from MESSENGER's second flyby in October 2008ģ3★4′S 347☃0′W / 33.9°S 347.5°W / -33.9 -347.5 Coordinates: 33★4′S 347☃0′W / 33.9°S 347.5°W / -33.9 -347.5ĭebussy is a rayed impact crater on Mercury, which was discovered in 1969 by low resolution ground-based radar observations obtained by the Goldstone Observatory. ![]()
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