Hamlet of Oberon

What's in a name? Since 1919, the International Astronomical Union
has been charged with the task of establishing "conventional" nomenclature for planets,
satellites, and surface features. For the remote Uranian system of moons, namesakes
from Shakespearean works have been chosen. Thus Oberon, king of the mid-summer
night fairies, is also Uranus' most distant and second largest moon and Hamlet is a
tragically large and princely crater on its surface. The above image represents known
surface features of Oberon and was constructed by the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) based on data from NASA's robot explorer Voyager 2. Hamlet is the large
dark crater to the right of center. In 1986, Voyager 2 flew through the Uranian system -
so far it has been the only spacecraft to do so.