10 biggest Mercury craters.

"Mercury Craters" is a free online race game, used to study 10 of the biggest craters on the Planet Mercury. A small arcade game for desktop computers, laptops and tablets, which may be played in the web browser. The Astronomy Knowledge Board include 10 crater pictures to find on the surface. Part of the Interactive Astronomy Observatory educational tools.

This interactive lesson may answer some of the following questions:

• What does Mercury surface looks like?
  
• Is Mercury covered with many craters ?
  
• What's the density of craters on Mercury's surface ?
  
• Which are the 10 biggest craters of Mercury?
  
• How Mercury craters are named?
  
• Where can I drive a Mercury lander craft ?

How to play Mercury Craters

Move the lander craft with the arrow keys and cross the surface of Mercury to find information about 10 of the biggest craters there. The lander have 2 abilities - Speed and Range. They will be increased for a limited time by the bonuses hovering over the surface. When a crater is found, it will become visible and rolling over the picture will give information for its approximate size and its name. Find all 10 craters and win the game.

Knowledge Achievements:
Know the name of at least one crater of Mercury. The surface of Mercury is covered with thousands of craters and many of them have already been named. The player may find out what kind of names are given and even memorize some of them, by just having some fun with the lander craft hovering over the surface.
Winning the game rewards +1 Knowledge Level on planeta42.com website.
Stand Alone version include an executable file for Windows OS with local levels only.

Application Content:

Some of the included in this game craters of Mercury:

Copland Crater	Beethoven Crater	Goethe Crater	Dostoevskij Crater	Kunisada Crater	Matisse Crater	Michelangelo Crater	Monet Crater
208 km.	643 km.	384 km.	411 km.	241 km.	210 km.	216 km.	303 km.