Stevenson (crater)

{{short description|Crater on Mercury}}

{{Infobox crater data

| title = Stevenson

| image = Stevenson crater (MESSENGER).png

| caption = MESSENGER image

| globe = Mercury

| coordinates = {{coord|2.05|N|143.88|W|globe:mercury_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| diameter = {{cvt|134|km}}

| eponym = Robert Louis Stevenson

}}

File:Mariner 10 image 0000214.png image with Stevenson at lower right.]]

Stevenson is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2012, after the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.{{cite web |url = http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/14974 |title = Stevenson |publisher = NASA |work = Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature |accessdate = 14 January 2020}} The crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974.{{Davies Dwornik Gault Strom 1978}}

The crater is very old and is crisscrossed by chains of secondary impact craters.{{Cite web|title=Catalog Page for PIA15781|url=https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15781|access-date=2022-02-17|website=photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov}}

The crater Tyagaraja is to the west of Stevenson.