The Huge Impact of an Object That Produced the Circular

question 65

Multiple Choice

The huge impact of an object that produced the circular Caloris Basin and its ring of mountains on Mercury also produced

• A) a very localized region of magnetic field, the only magnetic field possessed by Mercury.
• B) melting of permafrost, causing massive floods that produced deep valleys on Mercury's surface.
• C) a pattern of jumbled terrain diametrically opposite the basin, caused by the focused seismic waves from the original impact.
• D) a very thick, dusty atmosphere that still obscures the planet's surface.

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