Resolution Rupes

63°48′S 51°42′W / 63.8°S 51.7°W / -63.8; -51.7^[1]Length190 km^[2]EponymHMS Resolution^[1]

Resolution Rupes is an escarpment on Mercury approximately 190 kilometers long located in the southern hemisphere of Mercury.^[1] Discovered by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974, it was formed by a thrust fault, thought to have occurred due to the shrinkage of the planet's core as it cooled over time.^[2]

Resolution Rupes has an arcuate shape with the scarp face on convex side of the arc. It has a relief of about 0.9 km and is situated between Adventure Rupes and Discovery Rupes. These three scarps lie on a large arc extending for more than 1000 km. Resolution Rupes is separated from Adventure Rupes by a high relief ridge informally called Rabelais Dorsum, which crosscuts the scarps. This means that Resolution Rupes and Adventure Rupes may be parts of one large structure similar in length to Discovery Rupes.^[2]

The scarp is named after HMS Resolution, one of James Cook's ships on his second voyage to the Pacific, 1772–1775.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Resolution Rupes". USGS. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c Watters, T.R.; Cook, A.C.; Robinson, M.S. (2001). "Large-scale lobate scarps in the southern hemisphere of Mercury". Planetary and Space Science. 49 (14–15): 1523–1530. Bibcode:2001P&SS...49.1523W. doi:10.1016/S0032-0633(01)00090-3.

Mercury

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General	Albedo features Atmosphere Features Magnetic field
Regions	Quadrangles
Quadrangles	Bach Beethoven Borealis Debussy Derain Discovery Eminescu Hokusai Kuiper Michelangelo Neruda Shakespeare Raditladi Tolstoj Victoria
Mountains and volcanoes	Caloris Montes
Plains and plateaus	Borealis Planitia Budh Planitia Caloris Planitia Odin Planitia Sobkou Planitia Suisei Planitia Tir Planitia
Canyons and valleys	Arecibo Catena Arecibo Vallis Goldstone Catena Goldstone Vallis Haystack Catena Haystack Vallis Simeiz Vallis
Ridges and rupes	Antoniadi Dorsum Adventure Rupes Beagle Rupes Discovery Rupes Enterprise Rupes Hero Rupes Resolution Rupes Santa María Rupes Victoria Rupes
Basins and fossae	Caloris Basin Pantheon Fossae Raditladi Basin Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin)
Craters	Abedin Abu Nuwas Africanus Horton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz Alver Amaral Amru Al-Qays Andal Aneirin Angelou Anguissola Anyte Apollodorus Aristoxenes Aśvaghoṣa Atget Bach Balagtas Balanchine Baranauskas Balzac Bartók Barma Bashō Beckett Beethoven Bek Belinskij Bello Benoit Berkel Bernini Bjornson Boccaccio Boethius Botticelli Brahms Bramante Brontë Bruegel Brunelleschi Burns Byron Callicrates Camoes Carducci Carolan Calvino Cervantes Cézanne Chaikovskij Chao Meng-Fu Chekov Chiang Kʻui Chŏng Chʼŏl Chopin Chu Ta Coleridge Copland Copley Couperin Cunningham Dali Dario De Graft Debussy Degas Delacroix Derain Derzhavin Desprez Dickens Dominici Donne Dostoevskij Dowland Durer Dvorak Eastman Eitoku Eminescu Enheduanna Enwonwu Equiano Faulkner Fet Firdousi Flaubert Flaiano Futabatei Gainsborough Gauguin Geddes Ghiberti Gibran Giotto Glinka Gluck Goethe Gogol Goya Grieg Guido d'Arezzo Hals Han Kan Handel Harunobu Hauptmann Hawthorne Haydn Heine Hemingway Hesiod Hiroshige Hitomaro Hodgkins Hokusai Holbein Holberg Holst Homer Horace Hovnatanian Hugo Hun Kal Hurley Ibsen Ictinus Imhotep Ives Izquierdo Janáček Jokai Judah Ha-Levi Kalidasa Karsh Keats Kenko Kertész Khansa Kipling Kōshō Kuan Han-Chʻing Kuiper Kulthum Kunisada Kurosawa Lange Larrocha Leopardi Lermontov Lessing Li Chʻing-Chao Li Po Liang Kʻai Liszt Lovecraft Lu Hsun Lysippus Ma Chih-Yuan Machaut Mahler Mansart Mansur March Mark Twain Martí Martial Matabei Matisse Melville Mena Mendes Pinto Michelangelo Mickiewicz Milton Mistral Mofolo Molière Monet Monteverdi Moody Mozart Munch Munkácsy Murasaki Mussorgskij Myron Nabokov Nampeyo Navoi Nawahi Neruda Nureyev Nervo Neumann Nizami Okyo Oskison Ovid Petrarch Phidias Picasso Poe Polygnotus Praxiteles Prokofiev Qi Baishi Rachmaninoff Raden Saleh Raditladi Rameau Raphael Rembrandt Renoir Rivera Rizal Rodin Rudaki Sander Scarlatti Schubert Shakespeare Sholem Aleichem Sinan Stravinsky Sullivan Sveinsdóttir Titian To Ngoc Van Tolstoj Velázquez Verdi Villa-Lobos Vivaldi Vyasa Xiao Zhao Yeats Zola
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Current and past	Mariner 10 (1973–1975) MESSENGER (2004–2015) BepiColombo (2018–present)
Proposed	Mercury-P (~2031)
See also	Colonization of Mercury