Mark Twain - Crater on Mercury; Statue in Angels Camp, CA
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Bernd das Brot Team
N 38° 04.320 W 120° 32.549
10S E 715568 N 4216655
The Mark Twain Crater is located in the southern hemisphere of Mercury. This Mark Twain statue is in a park in Angels Camp, California.
Waymark Code: WM43G2
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/01/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member WayExplorer
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is one of the most popular American writers and maybe the most famous of them all. Everybody knows his celebrated novels, featuringthe adventures of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer".

This Statue is located in Angels Camp, California where Mark Twain found the inspiration for his first famous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

Many of the craters on Mercury are named after artists and Mark Twain is one of the many writers so honored.

Mark Twain Crater (center).
Picture taken by Mariner 10.		 Here it is a lot colder than on Mercury.

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