This is Rustaveli crater on Mercury. Now, like Rachmaninoff, you can see that it has a peak-ring. However, this peak-ring is composed of only a small number of isolated peaks and so it looks like it’s been buried by a great thickness of volcanism that erupted in the interior of the crater and buried the floor to a very great depth. Another thing about the crater is not apparent in the monochrome imagery but it has a crustal magnetic anomaly and it’s only by examining the crater in great detail that we might discover why this crater has a magnetic anomaly in its crustal material where most craters on Mercury do not.




