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Hodgkins Asymmetric Rays
The rayed crater near the bottom of this image is Hodgkins, named in July 2009 in honor of the New Zealand painter Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947). In this image captured on March 31, 2011, north is approximately toward the upper right corner. Hodgkins has an asymmetric pattern of rays, which provides information about the impact event that formed the crater. Hodgkins' asymmetric rays were formed when an object, traveling in either a northeastern or southwestern direction, struck Mercury at a low angle to the surface.
(Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)