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Articles tagged: tectonic activity

  • Dwarf Planet, New Horizons, Pluto, subsurface ocean, tectonic activity 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...

    • Dwarf Planet
    • New Horizons
    • Pluto
    • subsurface ocean
    • tectonic activity
  • Apollo program, LOCSMITH, Lunar Geophysical Network (LGN), moonquakes, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) 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 ...

    • Apollo program
    • LOCSMITH
    • Lunar Geophysical Network (LGN)
    • moonquakes
    • NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
  • CubeSat, InSight, MarCO, mars 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...

    • CubeSat
    • InSight
    • MarCO
    • mars
    Authors: Kerry Hebden    
  • BepiColombo, iron planet, Mercury, Solar System 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...

    • BepiColombo
    • iron planet
    • Mercury
    • Solar System
    Authors: Andrea Ferrero    
  • Brown University, energy in ice, Europa, icy moon, tidal dissipation 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...

    • Brown University
    • energy in ice
    • Europa
    • icy moon
    • tidal dissipation
  • InSIght heat probe (HP3), InSight seismometer (SEIS), MarCO, Marsquakes, NASA InSight mission 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...

    • InSIght heat probe (HP3)
    • InSight seismometer (SEIS)
    • MarCO
    • Marsquakes
    • NASA InSight mission

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