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The Rupes Mercator is an escarpment located on the Moon. It is named after the neighboring Mercator crater, a name assigned to it in 1935 by the International Astronomical Union in honor of the Flemish geographer and mathematician Gérard Mercator.




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• Rupes Mercator
• Rupes Nigra
• Mercator (crater)
• List of escarpments
• List of lunar features
• Mercator 1569 world map
• Inventio Fortunata
• List of eponyms (L–Z)
• North Pole
• Transit of Mercury