Four Planetary Landscapes That Scientists Can’t Explain
These are just a handful of the hundreds of mysterious features across our solar neighborhood that beg to be studied closer.
Michael Davias
By JoAnna Wendel 11 December 2017
Take a tour of the solar system, and you’ll find myriad mysteries. How old are Saturn’s rings? What carved out Mercury’s hollows? What created Iapetus’s weird ridge?
This year at the American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall Meeting in New Orleans, La., several scientists dedicated a poster session to just a pinch of solar system puzzles—including strange landscapes on our own planet.
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