Sadī (crater)

Sadī is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976, after Persian poet Saadi Shirazi.^[1]

Sadī

MESSENGER NAC image. North is to the left.
Planet	Mercury
Coordinates	79.24°S 51.26°W / -79.24; -51.26
Quadrangle	Bach
Diameter	66.54 km
Eponym	Saadi Shirazi

Sadī is right of center in this MESSENGER image. Li Ch'ing-Chao is at top center, and Roerich is in lower left.

The northern rim of Sadī is in permanent shadow.^[2]

References

1. "Sadī". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
2. ILLUMINATION MAP OF MERCURY'S SOUTH POLE, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington