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Surface Features

Io's Surface Features Tesserae Nitrogen Ice Io Slope Streaks Lineae Glaciers Craters Mercury's Hollows Ridges and Scarps

Mercury's Shrinkage Revised Upward After Study Finds Craters Hide Tectonic Faults

Surface roughness and impact ejecta mask contractional landforms, with upcoming BepiColombo altimetry set to test the revision.

Study: Liquid Nitrogen Has Recently Reached Pluto’s Surface

Machine Learning Maps 400 Bright Slope Streaks on Mercury, Hinting at Ongoing Volatile Loss