Evolution of the rembrandt impact basin on Mercury

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5927, 2009, Pages 618-621

  Watters, Thomas R ^a   Head, James W ^b   Solomon, Sean C ^c   Robinson, Mark S ^d   Chapman, Clark R ^e   Denevi, Brett W ^d   Fassett, Caleb I ^b   Murchie, Scott L ^f   Strom, Robert G ^g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

DEFORMATION; MERCURY (PLANET); STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; VOLCANIC ASH;

EID: 66249088679     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172109     Document Type: Article

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25. We are grateful to the MESSENGER engineers and technical support personnel. The MESSENGER project is supported by the NASA Discovery Program under contracts NASW-00002 to the Carnegie Institution of Washington and NAS5-97271 to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. This work is also supported by NASA grant NNX07AR60G.