Borealis quadrangle
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The Borealis quadrangle is a quadrangle on Mercury surrounding the north pole down to 65° latitude. It was mapped in its entirety by the MESSENGER spacecraft, which orbited the planet from 2008 to 201
Photomosaic of Mariner 10 images
Jókai (crater)
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Jókai is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. Jokai is named for the Hungarian novelist Mór Jókai, who lived from 1825 to 1904.
Borealis quadrangle
…advanced for the age of the Monteverdi Basin, 130 km in diameter, centered at lat 64° N., long 77° W. in the Victoria quadrangle. The younger craters Jókai and Verdi, which have prominent central peaks and ghostlike discontinuous inner rings, probably qualify as central-peak basins (Wood and Head, 1976…
MESSENGER WAC of Jókai
Central Jókai crater
Final image acquired by MESSENGER