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5a Planetary Interiors
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5a Minerals
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5a Isostacy
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5a Mass Wasting Slump Slide Creep Flow
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5a Tectonics
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5a Plate Tectonics
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5a Volcanoes
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5a Landforms Shield Volcano (Hawaii) Cinder Cone (Lassen National Park) Stratovolcano (Mt. Shasta, California
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5a Hot features Fumaroles Hot springs Geysers
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5a Wind
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5a Dunes
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5a Alluvial Fan
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5a Impact Craters
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5a Terrestrial Impact Craters Meteor Crater, AZ Manicouagan, Canada Chicxulub, Yucatan, Mexico
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5a Impact Frequency
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5a Surface Geology of Individual Bodies Remote Sensing –Imaging –Photometry –Thermal and reflectance spectra –Radar and radio observations
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5a Moon No atmosphere Two primary terrains –Highlands Old, highly cratered –Maria Younger, darker Volcanism –Maria Tectonism –rilles
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5a Mercury Primarily covered with impact craters –Caloris Basin No obvious volcanism Tectonism –Long, sub-linear scarps –Likely produced by planetwide contraction –Decrease in Mercury’s radius by 1-2 km
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5a Venus Bulk properties similar to Earth Features dominated by Volcanism Also see –Impact craters –Tectonism –Erosion
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5a Volcanism
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5a Craters, Tectonics, & Wind
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5a Mars Crustal Dichotomy –Southern cratered highlands –Northern lowlands All surface processes have visible features No obvious active volcanism and tectonism –Dead world? Most new research
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5a Water Channels Teardrop islands Fluidized ejecta blankets
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5a Aeolian Features
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5a Io Few impact craters Most volcanically active body in solar system Tectonics, erosion
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5a Largest Volcano Olympus Mons –27 km high –550 km across –102 km diameter caldera Loki –200 km diameter
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5a Europa Icy surface Processes –Tectonics –Volcanism/erosion –Cratering
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5a Cassini at Saturn http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
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5a More Titan
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