Fig. 3: Grabens on Mercury. | Nature Geoscience

Fig. 3: Grabens on Mercury.

From: Widespread small grabens consistent with recent tectonism on Mercury

Fig. 3

a, Robinson projection of Mercury with our global map of potential shortening structures (red lines) and associated grabens (see key) overlain on the global monochrome basemap18. b, MDIS Global Enhanced Color Mosaic51 overlain on global monochrome basemap with grabens. c, MDIS DEM (digital elevation model)52 overlain on global monochrome basemap with grabens. The global map of grabens and the global map of shortening structures are available in Supplementary Data 1 and 2. Credit: MESSENGER images from NASA/JHUAPL/CIW.

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