Remarque (crater)

{{short description|Crater on Mercury}}

{{Infobox crater data

| title = Remarque

| image = Remarque crater EW0251746030F.jpg

| caption = MESSENGER WAC

| globe = Mercury

| coordinates = {{coord|84.94|N|6.46|W|globe:mercury_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| diameter = {{cvt|25.9|km}}

| eponym = Erich Maria Remarque

}}

File:Remarque crater EW1017383411I.jpg

Remarque is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on December 16, 2013. Remarque is named for the German author Erich Maria Remarque.{{cite web |url =https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15193|title = Remarque|publisher = NASA |work = Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature |accessdate = 16 June 2020}}

Remarque has a region of permanent shadow on much of its floor, which has a bright radar signature. This is interpreted to represent a deposit of water ice.[https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19411 PIA19411: Water Ice on Mercury], NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of WashingtonJohn K. Harmon, Martin A. Slade, Melissa S. Rice, 2011. Radar imagery of Mercury’s putative polar ice: 1999–2005 Arecibo results. Icarus, 211, p37-50. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2010.08.007 doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2010.08.007]

File:Radar-bright Deposits near Mercury's North Pole messenger orbit image20120322.jpg

Remarque is on the Borealis Planitia and is located northeast of the ghost crater Aristoxenus.