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Beyer RA, Nimmo F, McKinnon WB, et al. Charon tectonics. Icarus. 2016;287:161-174doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.018.
Beyer, R. A., Nimmo, F., McKinnon, W. B., Moore, J. M., Binzel, R. P., Conrad, J. W., Cheng, A., Ennico, K., Lauer, T. R., Olkin, C. B., Robbins, S., Schenk, P., Singer, K., Spencer, J. R., Stern, S. A., Weaver, H. A., Young, L. A., & Zangari, A. M. (2017). Charon tectonics. Icarus, 287161-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.018
Beyer, Ross A, et al. "Charon tectonics." Icarus vol. 287 (2017): 161-174. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.018
Beyer RA, Nimmo F, McKinnon WB, Moore JM, Binzel RP, Conrad JW, Cheng A, Ennico K, Lauer TR, Olkin CB, Robbins S, Schenk P, Singer K, Spencer JR, Stern SA, Weaver HA, Young LA, Zangari AM. Charon tectonics. Icarus. 2017 May 01;287:161-174. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.018. Epub 2016 Dec 16. PMID: 28919640; PMCID: PMC5599803.
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Icarus. 2017 May 01;287:161-174. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.018. Epub 2016 Dec 16.

Charon tectonics.

Icarus

Ross A Beyer, Francis Nimmo, William B McKinnon, Jeffrey M Moore, Richard P Binzel, Jack W Conrad, Andy Cheng, K Ennico, Tod R Lauer, C B Olkin, Stuart Robbins, Paul Schenk, Kelsi Singer, John R Spencer, S Alan Stern, H A Weaver, L A Young, Amanda M Zangari

Affiliations

  1. Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, 189 Berndardo Ave, Mountain View, California 94043, USA.
  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA 94035-0001, USA.
  3. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
  4. Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA.
  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  6. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA.
  7. National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA.
  8. Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA.
  9. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX 77058, USA.

PMID: 28919640 PMCID: PMC5599803 DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.018

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.

Keywords: Charon; Geological processes; Image processing; Pluto; Tectonics

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