page_title: Sapkota (crater)
hierarchical_section_title: Sapkota (crater)
caption_attribution_description: English: Sapkota crater on Mercury. Approximate north is at bottom. Emission Angle: 24.5 Incidence Angle: 89.4 Latitude: 86.4 Longitude: 224.8 Phase Angle: 89.5
context_page_description: Sapkota is a crater on Mercury, located near the north pole. It was named by the IAU in 2015, after Nepalese poet Mahananda Sapkota.
  S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a lack of a radar-bright area within the interior of Sapkota, despite the fact that the floor of the crater is in permanent shadow. Many nearby craters do have radar-bright areas which likely indicate water ice deposits.
context_section_description: Sapkota is a crater on Mercury, located near the north pole.  It was named by the IAU in 2015, after Nepalese poet Mahananda Sapkota.
  S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a lack of a radar-bright area within the interior of Sapkota, despite the fact that the floor of the crater is in permanent shadow.  Many nearby craters do have radar-bright areas which likely indicate water ice deposits.
caption: MESSENGER image
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