Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
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Elevated mercury concentrations in humans of Madre de Dios, Peru. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The enormous increase in practically unregulated mining in Madre de Dios Peru is leading to massive release of liquid elemental mercury to the environment. Rapidly increasing global prices for gold are causing a massive upsurge in artisanal mining in the
Katy Ashe
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Toxics, 2023 Mercury is one of the most dangerous contaminants on the planet. In recent years, evidence of mercury contamination in the Amazon has significantly increased, notably due to gold-mining activities.
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RELIEF OF MERCURY AND THE MOON: FROM MORPHOMETRY TO MORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 The MESSENGER mission (2011–2015) gives us an opportunity to gain new knowledge about Mercury which is still the least explored planet of the terrestrial group.
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Geomorphological processes on terrestrial planetary surfaces [PDF]
, 1980 This review deals with features and processes on planetary surfaces, first by examining the impact of photographic explorations of Moon, Mars, and Mercury on studies of surface processes on our own planet, and second by treating matters related to ...
Sharp, Robert P.
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The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Rocky planets and moons experiencing solar wind sputtering are continuously supplying their enveloping exosphere with ejected neutral atoms. To understand the quantity and properties of the ejecta, well-established binary collision approximation Monte ...
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Solar sail capture trajectories at Mercury [PDF]
, 2002 Mercury is an ideal environment for future planetary exploration by solar sail since it has proved difficult to reach with conventional propulsion and hence remains largely unexplored.
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The chemical case for Mercury mantle stripping
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2019 Mercury, the Solar System’s innermost planet, has an unusually massive core prompting speculation that the planet lost silicate after it formed. Using the unusually high sulfur and low iron composition of its surface and space geodetic constraints on its
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A transient enhancement of Mercury’s exosphere at extremely high altitudes inferred from pickup ions
Nature Communications, 2020 Mercury has a global dayside exosphere that is very tenuous and does not extend far from the planet. Here, the authors show enhancement of neutral densities at high altitudes inferred from pickup ions that is most likely caused by the impact of a ...
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Mercury's resonant rotation from secular orbital elements [PDF]
, 2015 We used recently produced Solar System ephemerides, which incorporate two years of ranging observations to the MESSENGER spacecraft, to extract the secular orbital elements for Mercury and associated uncertainties.
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