Nippur Sulcus region, Ganymede - Nature of high-latitude groove lanes and their relation to Marius Regio from Galileo SSI data

Details Nippur Sulcus region, Ganymede - Nature of high-latitude groove lanes and their relation to Marius Regio from Galileo SSI data Nippur Sulcus region, Ganymede - Nature of high-latitude groove lanes and their relation to Marius Regio from Galileo SSI data

Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997lpi....28..537h&link_type=abstract

Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 537.

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Ganymede, Grooves, Terrain, Craters, Stratigraphy, Galileo Spacecraft, Albedo, Morphology, Voyager Project

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Nippur Sulcus is part of a complex set of groove lanes that intersect at the northern corner of Marius Regio, a polygonal region of dark terrain located in northern Ganymede. In Voyager data, this site contains a moderately complicated stratigraphy of superposed light terrain groove sets, and dark terrain, both Marius Regio proper (dark-furrowed material) and patches of dark lineated/grooved material. A NW-SE regionally preferred orientation of grooved terrain is generally superposed on older groove lanes having a larger variety of orientations. Galileo coverage was designed to address (1) the detailed nature of groove morphology, (2) the origin of regional patterns of groove orientation, (3) albedo patterns of midlatitude light terrain (e.g., evidence for resurfacing; nature of components leading to albedo variations in bright terrain, etc.), (4) crater morphology, (5) light terrain stratigraphy at high spatial resolution, and (6) light-dark terrain relationships. The specific mosaic was targeted to cross from the dark terrain of northern Marius Regio across grooved material of Philus Sulcus, into a strip of smooth material of possible cryovolcanic origin. Three frames, each 80 km x 80 km at a resolution of 100 m/pixel were obtained.

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