Delacroix
MESSENGER NAC image
PlanetMercury
Coordinates44°19′S 129°31′W / 44.32°S 129.51°W / -44.32; -129.51
QuadrangleMichelangelo
Diameter158 km
EponymEugène Delacroix
Approximate color image of the surface of Mercury. The prominent crater at right is Hawthorne, and Delacroix is along upper left edge.

Delacroix is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. Delacroix is named for the French painter Eugène Delacroix, who lived from 1798 to 1863.[1]

Delacroix overlies the slightly larger and older crater Shelley, to the south.

References

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


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