Charon tectonics

New Horizons images of Pluto’s companion Charon show a variety of terrains that display extensional tectonic features, with relief surprising for this relatively small world. These features suggest a global extensional areal strain of order 1% early in Charon’s history. Such extension is consistent...

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Autores principales: Beyer, Ross A., Nimmo, Francis, McKinnon, William B., Moore, Jeffrey M., Binzel, Richard P., Conrad, Jack W., Cheng, Andy, Ennico, K., Lauer, Tod R., Olkin, C.B., Robbins, Stuart, Schenk, Paul, Singer, Kelsi, Spencer, John R., Stern, S. Alan, Weaver, H.A., Young, L.A., Zangari, Amanda M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5599803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28919640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.018
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Sumario:New Horizons images of Pluto’s companion Charon show a variety of terrains that display extensional tectonic features, with relief surprising for this relatively small world. These features suggest a global extensional areal strain of order 1% early in Charon’s history. Such extension is consistent with the presence of an ancient global ocean, now frozen.

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