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7 r2 w3 p7 @0 VThe most heavily cratered terrains on Mercury exhibit
! n/ x9 B" |0 K1 }3 O @a lower density of craters smaller than about 100 km in diameter than on the 0 G0 {% J6 f7 [9 o5 V, ^
Moon, a deficit that has been attributed to resurfacing by formation of ancient
& H) q, G/ b9 a2 f/ }( p4 H$ s' pintercrater plains. Simone Marchi et al. used a crater areal density map $ L9 G( t6 r$ I+ _) \. d
based on data from the MESSENGER spacecraft (the colour-coded foreground on
: w, }1 T4 L$ y8 o! q" E" Y2 I) `" ccover, with a global surface mosaic in the background) to locate the oldest 4 a" k2 A8 h8 c% _2 Z0 y
surfaces on Mercury and interpret the crater populations in the framework of a
; D) i- c4 i$ N- Y4 Precent lunar crater chronology. They conclude that the oldest surfaces were
& `$ f7 n4 E' p- X( o. D! L: nemplaced just after the start of the Late Heavy Bombardment 4.0 to 4.1 billion
c# `, u- N1 P! u7 e% x* B7 Nyears ago. The large impact basins, not previously dated, yield a similar
' s, S& }) P/ ]0 |5 }6 lsurface age. This agreement implies that resurfacing was global and due to 8 t- y: N& k# o9 n
volcanism, perhaps aided by heavy bombardment as previously suggested. Cover: ; D z% C8 `7 m" e
Simone Marchi/MESSENGER data: NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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