Unity Rupes (Mercury)

English vessel which took Edmond Halley to Saint Helena in 1676 to conduct a survey of the stars in the southern hemisphere. While there, Halley observed the 1677 transit of Mercury which enabled him to make one of the earliest calculations to estimate the size of the solar system.

A rupes is a scarp. On Mercury they are named after ships of discovery or scientific expeditions.

Image Source. Marker locations are approximate and may not always appear to align with image on map.

NW 505 km

Copland

MRV
7 Hours 54 Minutes
Walking
6 Days 8 Hours

N 145 km

Rustaveli(last)

MRV
2 Hours 15 Minutes
Walking
1 Day 19 Hours

NE 456 km

Fonteyn

MRV
7 Hours 7 Minutes
Walking
5 Days 17 Hours

W 633 km

Solitudo Aphrodites

MRV
9 Hours 54 Minutes
Walking
7 Days 22 Hours

Unity Rupes

27.06° N 84.88° E

E 691 km

Munkácsy

MRV
10 Hours 48 Minutes
Walking
8 Days 16 Hours

SW 226 km

Hafiz

MRV
3 Hours 32 Minutes
Walking
2 Days 20 Hours

S 120 km

Caravaggio(next)

MRV
1 Hour 53 Minutes
Walking
1 Day 12 Hours

SE 637 km

Sveinsdóttir

MRV
9 Hours 57 Minutes
Walking
8 Days

Tour so far: Visited 295 locations over 76,432 km. Next: Caravaggio
Return to Tour

Built by Inkleby based on data from the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.
This website uses cookies to see how many people visited (Learn More).