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Terrestrial World Surfaces
● Solid rocky surfaces shaped (to varying degrees) by:
– Impact cratering
– Volcanism
– Tectonics (gross movement of surface by interior forces)
– Erosion (by impacts or by weather)
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Impact Cratering● Small bodies in the Solar System can strike larger bodies at
tremendous speed (many kilometers per second).
● The tremendous energy of motion gets converted into an explosion at the point of contact.
– Large impactors don't “gouge” they detonate.
– Large craters are round independent of the angle of impact.
MoonIapetus (Saturn)
Mars
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Impact Cratering● Small bodies in the Solar System can strike larger bodies at
tremendous speed (many kilometers per second).
● The tremendous energy of motion gets converted into an explosion at the point of contact.
– Large impactors don't “gouge” they detonate.
– Large craters are round independent of the angle of impact.
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Impact Cratering
● Upon impact the surface temporarily behaves like a liquid.
– Cratering can be reminiscent of tossing a rock in a pond.
● Craters can have central mountain peaks.● Large impacts form multi-ring basins
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Impact Cratering
● Upon impact the surface temporarily behaves like a liquid.
– Cratering can be reminiscent of tossing a rock in a pond.
● Craters can have central mountain peaks.● Large impacts form multi-ring basins
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Impact Cratering
● Upon impact the surface temporarily behaves like a liquid.
– Cratering can be reminiscent of tossing a rock in a pond.
● Craters can have central mountain peaks.● Large impacts form multi-ring basins
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Impact Cratering
● Upon impact the surface temporarily behaves like a liquid.
– Cratering can be reminiscent of tossing a rock in a pond.
● Craters can have central mountain peaks.● Large impacts form multi-ring basins
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Impact Cratering
Craters onVenus
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Impact Cratering
● Upon impact the surface temporarily behaves like a liquid.
– Cratering can be reminiscent of tossing a rock in a pond.
● Craters can have central mountain peaks.● Large impacts form multi-ring basins
Jupiter's Moon Callisto Mare Orientale on the Earth's Moon
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Impact Cratering
● Upon impact the surface temporarily behaves like a liquid.
– Cratering can be reminiscent of tossing a rock in a pond.
● Craters can have central mountain peaks.● Large impacts form multi-ring basins
Caloris Basin on Mercury
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Ejecta Blankets
● Impacts splash out material that blankets surrounding terrain.
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Ejecta Blankets
● Impacts splash out material that blankets surrounding terrain.
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Terrestrial World Surfaces
● For the Moon...
● Solid rocky surfaces shaped (to varying degrees) by:
– Impact cratering
– Volcanism (lava floods within Maria)
– Tectonics (gross movement of surface by interior forces)
– Erosion (via impact grinding, not atmospheric)
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Geological Activity vs. Planetary Size
● It's no coincidence that the smallest worlds above are the ones that are heavily cratered.
● The larger a world is the more readily it retains its internal heat.
– A pea cools off much more quickly than a potato
● Earth and Venus are still hot in the interior and molten material can reach and re-surface the surface.
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Geological Activity vs. Planetary Size
● Planets start out hot and generate heat internally through radioactive decay.
● The larger a world is the more readily it retains its internal heat.
– A pea cools off much more quickly than a potato
● Earth and Venus are still hot in the interior and molten material can reach and re-surface the surface.
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16Two Extremes: Rampant Volcanism vs. Early Geological Death
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Geological Activity vs. Planetary Size
● It's no coincidence that the smallest worlds above are the ones that are heavily cratered.
● The larger a world is the more readily it retains its internal heat.
– A pea cools off much more quickly than a potato
● Earth and Venus are still hot in the interior and molten material can reach and re-surface the surface.
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Geologic Activity on Earth and Venus
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Geologic Activity on Earth and Venus
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Mercury● Being small, it ended geological activity relatively early and is a
heavily cratered world.
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Mercury● Being small, it ended geological activity relatively early and is a
heavily cratered world.
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Mercury● Possibly not as heavily cratered as the lunar highlands because it
took longer to cool.
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MESSENGER
● We now have an active mission orbiting Mercury and exploring it in detail.
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MESSENGER
● Confirming evidence for ice at the poles
Earth-based radar view of high reflectivity regions at Mercury's north pole
MESSENGER view showing shadowed craters at the pole.
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MESSENGER
● Confirming evidence for ice at the poles
Earth-based radar view of high reflectivity regions at Mercury's north pole
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MESSENGER
● We now have an active mission orbiting Mercury and exploring it in detail.
Signs of “recent” volcanism
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Mercury● There is evidence that Mercury shrank (only a couple of
kilometers) as it cooled – lobate scarps.
– These are “wrinkles” in the solidified surface due to shrinkage.
Mercury rotates three times for every two trips around the Sun
Mercury's rotation has been slowed by Solar tides
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A World of Extremes
● Intense sunlight bakes to dayside of Mercury to temperatures of about 700K (800F).
● The nightside cools to the emptyness of space during the long nights with no atmospheric blanket. Temperatures are typically less than 100K (-280F).
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Planetary Interiors – Mean Density
● It's easy to measure the average density of a planet
– Find a satellite and determine the planet's mass
– Divide by the planet's volume.
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π R3
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Planetary Interiors – Mean Density
● Ignoring the gas giants for the moment, there are three building materials out there
– Metal – 8 grams/cubic centimeter
– Rock – 3 grams/cubic centimeter
– Ice – 1 gram/cubic centimeter
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π R3
These materials were available in different relative abundance depending on distance from the Sun.
close: rock and metal
far: ICE, rock, and metal
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Planetary Interiors – Mean Density
● The mean density of Earth is 5.5 g/cm3
– This density is between rock and metal
– The Earth's interior is a mix of metal and rock
● The Earth's interior is “differentiated”
– The dense metal has sunk to the center
– Seismic studies reveal this internal structure.
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π R3
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Planetary Interiors – A Differentiated Earth
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π R3
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Icy Moons
● The satellites of the outer planets typically have density of less than 2 grams/cm3.
– They are mostly made of water/ice and have differentiated rocky cores.
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Mercury's Interior
● Although it has nearly identical density to Earth, Mercury is thought to have a proportionally larger iron core.
– Compression of materials deep inside a planet artificially increases the density.
– Earth doesn't need as much iron to match Mercury's density.
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Planetary Interiors – Mean Density
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π R3
● The density of the Moon is 3.3 grams per cubic centimeter – implying a composition that is almost entirely rock.
– Therein begins the mystery....
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Lunar Puzzles
● Despite it's proximity to Earth and the likelihood that it formed at the same time and in the same place as Earth, the Moon is fundamentally different.
● Difference 1: The Moon's density indicates that it is almost entirely rock. It is lacking the iron that dominates the Earth's core.
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Lunar Puzzles● Despite it's proximity to Earth and the likelihood that it formed at
the same time and in the same place as Earth, the Moon is fundamentally different.
● Difference 2: Moon material has been baked to high temperature driving off most volatile compounds (e.g. water).
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Lunar Puzzles● Despite it's proximity to Earth and the likelihood that it formed at
the same time and in the same place as Earth, the Moon is fundamentally different.
● Big similarity – The Earth and Moon have identical relative abundance of the different isotopes – oxygen 16, 17, and 18 in particular.
– This ratio is a fingerprint of the location of formation of an object.
– So... The Earth and Moon are completely different, yet they seem to have formed in the same place.
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Theories of Lunar Formation
● Co-formation – The Earth and Moon grew from the Solar Nebula via accretion in the same place at the same time.
– Supported by Oxygen isotopes
– Not consistent with the compositional difference between Earth and Moon (lack of iron in the Moon).
● Capture – The Moon formed where iron was not as abundant and was subsequently captured into Earth orbit.
– Oxygen isotopes say that this did not happen.
– Gravitational capture is not practical – The Moon does not have retrorockets to slow it down.
– “Baking” unexplained
● Fission – The Earth forms and then somehow, maybe from excessive spin, the Moon is flung out from Earth's mantle.
– Spin (angular momentum) is conserved. There's not enough spin in the current Earth/Moon system to support this idea.
– “Baking” unexplained.
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Moon Formation in a Catastrophic Collision
● Explains everything, especially the extra “baking”
● Recall that these late giant collisions are a natural consequence of Solar System formation.
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Moon Formation in a Catastrophic Collision
● The speed and direction of this collision has to be fairly exact in order to produce the Moon.
– “Earth's” with big moons are probably rare.
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Consequences of a Rare Moon
● Is the Moon a factor, maybe an important one, in complex/intelligent life arising on this world?
– If important, worlds with complex life may be quite rare.
● Effects
– Big alteration in initial chemistry/evolution of the Earth's surface.
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Consequences of a Rare Moon
● Is the Moon a factor, maybe an important one, in complex/intelligent life arising on this world?
– If important, worlds with complex life may be quite rare.
● Effects
– Big tides, especially at the outset
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Consequences of a Rare Moon
● Is the Moon a factor, maybe an important one, in complex/intelligent life arising on this world?
– If important, worlds with complex life may be quite rare.
● Effects
– A stable tilt for the Earth's axis