Earth and space scientists document and reveal the mechanisms behind strike-slip faulting on the largest moon of Saturn, Titan, and Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. On the surface of many of the icy ...
Figure 1: Galileo image mosaic of mountains on Io. Mountain formation on Io is assumed to occur when the subsidence and thermoelastic stresses exceed the failure strength of the lithosphere, but the ...
Strike-slip faulting, the type of motion common to California’s well-known San Andreas Fault, was reported recently to possibly occur on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. New research, led by planetary ...