1. Charon tectonics.
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Beyer RA, Nimmo F, McKinnon WB, Moore JM, Binzel RP, Conrad JW, Cheng A, Ennico K, Lauer TR, Olkin CB, Robbins S, Schenk P, Singer K, Spencer JR, Stern SA, Weaver HA, Young LA, and Zangari AM
- Abstract
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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- 2017
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