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Planetary Geology

The study of the surfaces and tectonic histories of planets and moons, using landforms such as ridges, scarps and craters to infer what happened to a body over geological time.

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Roughness maps push Mercury's total contraction up by 10 to 30 percent

Mercury's lumpiest terrain carries the fewest shrinkage wrinkles, which the authors read as impact debris burying the record. Correct for that and total contraction rises to as much as 23 km, with the thermal models still to be redone.

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