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     • The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with new faults likely forming today as Mercury’s interior continues to cool and the planet contracts.
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   Sep 26, 2016 · New NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet. Images obtained by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft reveal previously undetected small fault scarps— cliff-like landforms that resemble stair steps.

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   Is Mercury a tectonically active planet?

   • New NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet. Images obtained by NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft reveal previously undetected small fault scarps— cliff-like landforms that resemble stair steps.

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   Does Mercury have tectonic activity?

   • The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER sent back high-resolution images of the surface of Mercury that confirmed not only evidence of tectonic activity (arrows show faults and other surface landforms), but that the planet is still geologically active. NASA/Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory

   Mercury Is Tectonically Active, Making It Uniquely Like Earth

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   Did tectonic activity occur on Mercury in the past 50 million years?

   • The identification of small thrust fault scarps suggests the occurrence of tectonic activity on Mercury within the past 50 million years and thus a slow-cooling planetary interior. Large tectonic landforms on the surface of Mercury, consistent with significant contraction of the planet, were revealed by the flybys of Mariner 10 in the mid-1970s1.

   Recent tectonic activity on Mercury revealed by small thrust fault

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   Does Mercury have a plate tectonic system?

   • It has an ongoing plate tectonic system, but with a key difference versus ours. “Earth's shell is broken up among about a dozen plates that cause most of the tectonic activity on Earth,” says Watters. “On Mercury, we don't have any evidence for a series of plates. Mercury seems to be a one-plate planet. That shell is uniformly contracting.

   Mercury Is Tectonically Active, Making It Uniquely Like Earth

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4. www.smithsonianmag.com › smithsonian-institutionMercury Is Tectonically Active, Making It Uniquely Like Earth

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   Sep 29, 2016 · Mercury turns out to be currently tectonically active. Other than Earth, it is the only rocky planet in this solar system that is still slowly thrusting up parts of its crust and changing the ...

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   Sep 26, 2016 · New NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet. Images obtained by NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment,...

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   Sep 29, 2016 · The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with new faults likely forming today as Mercury’s interior continues to cool and the...

8. weather.com › science › spaceMercury is Tectonically Active and Shrinking, Scientists Say

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   Sep 27, 2016 · It’s small, it’s hot, and it’s shrinking. Surprising new NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet.

9. www.nature.com › articles › ngeo2814Recent tectonic activity on Mercury revealed by small thrust ...

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   Sep 26, 2016 · The planet Mercury has contracted over its history. The identification of small thrust fault scarps suggests the occurrence of tectonic activity on Mercury within the past 50 million years...

10. www.sci.news › space › planetaryscienceMercury is Tectonically Active Planet, Planetary Scientists Say

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    Sep 26, 2016 · “The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with new faults likely forming today as Mercury’s interior continues to cool and the planet contracts,” Dr. Watters said.