Burns (crater)

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Burns is a 43-kilometer-wide impact crater on Mercury. It lies in the Shakespeare quadrangle near 54.1°N, 117.4°W. The crater was named by the International Astronomical Union in 1985 after the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796). Burns was first photographed by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. To the southeast of Burns lies the crater To Ngoc Van, which shows evidence of volcanic activity.