Enterprise Rupes

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Enterprise Rupes is a prominent lobate scarp on the planet Mercury, formed by the planet’s crust contracting and thrusting over itself as Mercury cooled.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Enterprise Rupes canonical 1

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Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geological feature
lobate scarp
rupes on Mercury
discoveredBy spacecraft imaging
featureType scarp
formedBy cooling of Mercury
planetary contraction
thrust faulting
hasAge post-heavy bombardment
hasFaultType thrust fault
hasGeologicSetting Mercury highlands
hasMorphology lobate scarp
hasNameElement Rupes
hasOrientation linear to arcuate structure
hasPlanet Mercury
hasProcess crustal shortening
overthrusting of crustal blocks
hasRelief kilometer-scale vertical offset
hasSignificance constraint on Mercury radius change
evidence of Mercury’s interior cooling
hasStructure one crustal block thrust over another
hasSurfaceExpression cliff-like escarpment
hasTectonicOrigin compressional tectonics
imagedBy MESSENGER MDIS instrument
linked to: MESSENGER
isEvidenceFor global contraction of Mercury
planetary cooling
thermal evolution of Mercury
isPartOf Mercury global lobate scarp population
locatedIn Mercury crust
locatedOn Mercury
namedAfter Starship Enterprise
nameLanguage Latin
observedBy MESSENGER spacecraft
linked to: MESSENGER
RupesMeans cliffs
studiedIn Mercury tectonics research
surfaceFeatureOf Mercury

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rupes (scarps) on Mercury haveRepresentativeExample Enterprise Rupes
subject linked to: Rupes (scarps)