Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2nd ed

120 Encyclopedia of the Solar System Although both sodium and potassium are probably de- rived from the surface of Mercury, the ...

Mercury 121 FIGURE 2 (a) A high-resolution radar image of the north polar deposits down to 80◦N is shown. The deposits are withi ...

122 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 3 Comparison of terrestrial planet sizes and core radii. The percent of the total pl ...

Mercury 123 FIGURE 5 Artist’s rendition of Mercury’s dipole magnetic field showing the bow shock, magnetosheath,magnetopause, an ...

124 Encyclopedia of the Solar System (a) FIGURE 6 (a) Mercury as viewed byMariner 10on its first approach in March 1974. (b) Mer ...

Mercury 125 radii on the Moon. All of these differences are probably due to the larger surface gravity of Mercury (3.70 m/s^2 ) ...

FIGURE 8 Map of the (a) fractures and (b) ridges on the floor of the Caloris Basin. The basin interior is shown in brown, and th ...

Mercury 127 FIGURE 10 Diagrammatic representation of the formation of the hilly and lineated terrain by focused seismic waves fr ...

128 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 12 High-resolution view of the intercrater plains. The chains and clusters of small ...

Mercury 129 FIGURE 13 Enhanced color mosaic of a portion of the incoming side of Mercury as viewed byMariner 10.The area at F ha ...

130 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 15 Arecibo Observatory 2.4-Ghz radar images of radar features A, B, C, and the polar ...

Mercury 131 significantly less than many of the surfaces of the Moon and other terrestrial planets. Earth-based microwave and mi ...

132 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 17 The 130-km-long Vostok scarp transects two craters 80 and 65 km in diameter. The ...

Mercury 133 FIGURE 18 (a) A thermal history model for inner core radius as a function of time for three values of initial core s ...

134 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 19 Possible bulk composition of the silicate mantle for the three models of Mercury’ ...

Mercury 135 lide with the terrestrial planets during their final stages of growth. The final growth and giant impacts occur with ...

136 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 22 Computer simulation of a large, off-axis, 35 km/sec impact with Mercury. In this ...

FIGURE 23 These images show the launches to Mercury ofMariner 10(left) andMESSENGER (right) almost 31 years apart. FIGURE 24 Thi ...

138 Encyclopedia of the Solar System TABLE 2 MESSENGERInstruments and Measurements Instrument Observation Duel Imaging System (1 ...

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