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Müller (Martian crater)

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Planet
  
Mars

Diameter
  
120.51 km

Müller (Martian crater)

Eponym
  
Hermann Joseph Muller and Carl H. Müller (German astronomer)

Müller is a 120.5 kilometer crater in the Martian southern hemisphere, at 25.74°S, 127.89°E, located in the Terra Cimmeria region of the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle of Mars. According to the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, Müller is jointly named for Hermann Joseph Muller, an American geneticist and anti-nuclear weapons activist, and Carl H. Müller, a German astronomer. Ejecta from the Müller crater divides two Noachian era drainage basins.

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Müller (Martian crater) Wikipedia