Hurley (crater)

Hurley is a crater on Mercury, located near the south pole. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2013, after Australian photographer Frank Hurley.

Hurley has a crater floor that is in permanent shadow.ILLUMINATION MAP OF MERCURY'S SOUTH POLE, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington So do nearby craters Chao Meng-Fu (at the south pole), Lovecraft, and L'Engle.

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