Shelley (crater)

Shelley
MESSENGER NAC image
PlanetMercury
Coordinates47°41′S 128°16′W / 47.69°S 128.27°W / -47.69; -128.27
QuadrangleMichelangelo
Diameter171 km
EponymPercy Bysshe Shelley
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.


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