Evolution of the rembrandt impact basin on Mercury

Thomas R. Watters; James W. Head; Sean C. Solomon; Mark Robinson; Clark R. Chapman; Brett W. Denevi; Caleb I. Fassett; Scott L. Murchie; Robert G. Strom

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Evolution of the rembrandt impact basin on Mercury

Thomas R. Watters, James W. Head, Sean C. Solomon, Mark Robinson, Clark R. Chapman, Brett W. Denevi, Caleb I. Fassett, Scott L. Murchie, Robert G. Strom

Earth and Space Exploration, School of (SESE)

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MESSENGER's second Mercury flyby revealed a ̃715-kilometer-diameter impact basin, the second-largest well-preserved basin-scale impact structure known on the planet. The Rembrandt basin is comparable in age to the Caloris basin, is partially flooded by volcanic plains, and displays a unique wheel-and-spoke-like pattern of basin-radial and basin-concentric wrinkle ridges and graben. Stratigraphic relations indicate a multistaged infilling and deformational history involving successive or overlapping phases of contractional and extensional deformation. The youngest deformation of the basin involved the formation of a ̃1000-kilometer-long lobate scarp, a product of the global cooling and contraction of Mercury.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	618-621
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	324
Issue number	5927
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1172109
State	Published - May 1 2009

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