Mercury’s surface is filled with astonishing craters. One of them is named, Balanchine, after the 20th-century choreographer George Balanchine. He was well-known for his work on the Christmas ballet “The Nutcracker. The crater has an area of dispersed blue ejecta which bore a similarity to Balanchine’s ballet “Serenade” where all the dancers wore blue-lavender tutus. This inspired the scientists to name the crater after him. There are other craters on Mercury which are named after Romanian poet Mihail Eminescu, Leetile Disang Raditladi, a Botswanan poet and playwright, and Júlíana Sveinsdóttir, one of Iceland’s first woman painters and textile artists.