Shelley (crater)
MESSENGER NAC image | |
| Planet | Mercury |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 47°41′S 128°16′W / 47.69°S 128.27°W |
| Quadrangle | Michelangelo |
| Diameter | 171 km |
| Eponym | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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. The crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974.
Shelley is overlain by the slightly smaller and younger crater Delacroix, to the north.