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Mercury's 280-mile (450-kilometer) Antoniadi Ridge, seen on the right side of this image, transects a large crater on the planet's surface. The ridge was named in honor of Eugenios Antoniadi, a French astronomer who in 1933 became the first to map the surface of Mercury in detail. Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/Northwestern University