Mercury has a crater Liubov Popova

One of the craters on Mercury was named after the Russian painter Liubov Popova. This decision was made by the International Astronomical Union on a proposal from a group of scientists working with the probe NASA «Messenger».

Lyubov Popova was born in 1889 in Moscow Province, studied in Moscow, and then went abroad, where he completed his education. In Italy and France, Popov took lessons in painting and subsequently became involved in the fashion beginning of XX century. avant-garde trends, including the Cubo-Futurism and Suprematism. Popov worked together with Kazimir Malevich, and in the early 1920s, designed the performances of the theater Meyerhold. She died in 1924 in Moscow by scarlet fever.



He told reporters scientific director of the "Messenger" Sean Solomon, they decided to pay tribute to cultural figures around the world. Also Popova, craters on Mercury was given the names of Japanese cartoonist Kavanabe Kiosai, the Polish sculptor Katarzyna Kobro, the American painter Edward Hopper and animator Walt Disney. Even remember the classic Latin poetry of the first century BC, Gaius Valerius Catullus. Musicians, too, have not been bypassed: several craters have appropriated the names of the American bluesman Muddy Waters, jazz musician Scott Joplin, the Polish composer Krzysztof Komeda's bands.

via factroom.ru