Recent Radar Observations of Mercury Have Suggested That Mercury May

question 166

Multiple Choice

Recent radar observations of Mercury have suggested that Mercury may

• A) have one or more tectonic rift valleys.
• B) have ice at its north and south poles.
• C) have geologically recent lava flows on the side that was not photographed by Mariner 10.
• D) not be precisely locked into its hypothesized 3-to-2 spin-orbit coupling.

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