Shelley (crater)

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Shelley
Shelley crater EN0227297821M.jpg
MESSENGER NAC image
Planet Mercury
Coordinates 47°41′S128°16′W / 47.69°S 128.27°W / -47.69; -128.27
Quadrangle Michelangelo
Diameter 171 km
Eponym Percy Bysshe Shelley
Approximate color image of the surface of Mercury. The prominent crater at right is Hawthorne, and Shelley is above left of center. Hawthorne crater region MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg
Approximate color image of the surface of Mercury. The prominent crater at right is Hawthorne, and Shelley is above left of center.

Shelley is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the IAU in 1979, after the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lived from 1792 to 1822. [1] The crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974. [2]

Shelley is overlain by the slightly smaller and younger crater Delacroix, to the north.

References

  1. "Shelley". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA . Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  2. Davies, M. E.; Dwornik, S. E.; Gault, D. E.; Strom, R. G. (1978). Atlas of Mercury. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. pp. 1–128. ISBN   978-1-114-27448-8. Special Publication SP-423.