Shelley (crater)

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]

Shelley
MESSENGER NAC image
PlanetMercury
Coordinates47.69°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 overlain by the slightly smaller and younger crater Delacroix, to the north.

References
  1. "Shelley". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 8 August 2021.


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