22 June 2016
Does a subsurface ocean exist on Pluto?
... deep sinuous faults, hundreds of kilometres long which indicate upheaval due to tectonic activity. "What New Horizons showed was that there are extensional tectonic features, which indicate that Pluto underwent a period of global expansion," Hammond...
13 May 2019
New study suggests Moon is still tectonically active
... Apollo programme suggest that the Moon is currently tectonically active, say scientists who have been trying to pin point...the candidate locations of the quakes with the position of any known tectonic features in that area. It turns out, that a large ...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... HP3 (Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe), these instruments will learn more about the levels of tectonic activity which manifest as waves or pulses that rumble throughout the planet, its perturbations as it travels around the Sun...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...equates to four Mercury years, it is hoped that BepiColombo will answer some fundamental questions such as: is Mercury tectonically active today? Is its core liquid or solid? Why do spectroscopic observations of Mercury not reveal the presence of any...
15 April 2016
Shifting ice on Europa could be warmer than anticipated
...'s gravity, as it orbits the gaseous giant. The surface patterns have led researchers to assume that some sort of tectonic activity must be at work to produce enough heat to cause the fractures and this far away from the Sun...
04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
... Marsquakes. Like Earthquakes on Earth, Mars is suspected of experiencing its own quakes which emanate from either tectonic activity or from meteorites striking the planet's surface. These quakes reverberate through the planet in the form of seismic...
