Verdi is a relatively young impact crater on the planet Mercury. It was named after Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) in 1979, as recognized by the International Astronomical Union. The crater's extensive ejecta blanket and secondary crater field are superposed on plains materials and older craters. Verdi was first captured by Mariner 10, a robotic space probe launched in the early 1970s to survey Venus and Mercury. Verdi and most of the planet's other craters were photographed in 2011 by the Messenger mission, a probe sent by NASA to orbit and photograph the planet.