The Chaotic Terrains of Mercury Reveal a History of Planetary Volatile Retention and Loss in the Innermost Solar System

Mercury’s images obtained by the 1974 Mariner 10 flybys show extensive cratered landscapes degraded into vast knob fields, known as chaotic terrain (AKA hilly and lineated terrain). For nearly half a century, it was considered that these terrains formed due to catastrophic quakes and ejecta fallout...

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Autores principales: Rodriguez, J. Alexis P., Leonard, Gregory J., Kargel, Jeffrey S., Domingue, Deborah, Berman, Daniel C., Banks, Maria, Zarroca, Mario, Linares, Rogelio, Marchi, Simone, Baker, Victor R., Webster, Kevin D., Sykes, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32179758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59885-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32179758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59885-5

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