Charon tectonics

Beyer, Ross A.; Nimmo, Francis; McKinnon, William B.; Moore, J. (Jeff); Binzel, Richard P.; Conrad, Jack W.; Chen, Andy; Ennico, K.; Lauer, Tod R.; Olkin, Cathy B.; Robbins, Stuart; Schenk, Paul M.; Singer, Kelsi N.; Spencer, John R. (John Robert), 1957-; Stern, Alan, 1957-; Weaver, Harold A., 1953-; Young, Leslie A.; Zangari, Amanda M.

Charon tectonics

Beyer, Ross A.; Nimmo, Francis; McKinnon, William B.; Moore, J. (Jeff); Binzel, Richard P.; Conrad, Jack W.; Chen, Andy; Ennico, K.; Lauer, Tod R.; Olkin, Cathy B.; Robbins, Stuart; Schenk, Paul M.; Singer, Kelsi N.; Spencer, John R. (John Robert), 1957-; Stern, Alan, 1957-; Weaver, Harold A., 1953-; Young, Leslie A.; Zangari, Amanda M.

URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1428

Date: 2016-12-16

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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