Mercury’s Caloris Basin is about 950 miles (1,525 kilometers) across. For comparison, the state of Texas is 773 miles (1,244 km) wide. The Moon has a similarly sized impact crater, Mare Orientale.

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Of Interest: This image shows a portion of the eastern edge of Caloris basin, one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System. The floor of the Caloris basin is filled with volcanic plains, while ...

The Caloris basin was flooded by lava, represented in orange in this mosaic. Understanding the crustal structure of large impact basins and the study of differences in the gravitational field in large ...

Once upon a time, the Caloris basin on Mercury was flooded with lava, forming a volcanic layer 2.5 to 3.5 kilometers thick with an occasional fresh crater punching through to the original basin floor.

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On the list of places in our Solar System that may have been habitable at one point, this chaotic, burning hot planet probably comes in last. Time to think again. In a counterintuitive new study, ...

Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System. It is also the smallest, and its orbit is the most eccentric (that is, the least perfectly circular) of the eight planets.[a] It orbits the&nbsp… ...

As NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft prepares for its second flyby of Mercury, new analyses of data from the first flyby was presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Münster September 23. Dr.