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Cat's Eye
This crater, located on the eastern margin of Rembrandt basin, has a distinctive, elongate depression oriented north-south on its floor. The depression was previously imaged in mosaics of Rembrandt (it is barely visible near the center of this color image), and morphologically resembles depressions interpreted as volcanic vents elsewhere on Mercury. That this vent is aligned with where we would expect Rembrandt's rim to lie (were it not removed by this crater) suggests that the larger basin may have structurally controlled the location and development of this pit.
Date acquired: July 29, 2012
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington