Hero Rupes
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| Feature type | Rupes |
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| Eponym | Hero (sloop)[1] |
Hero Rupes is an escarpment on Mercury more than 300 kilometers long[2] located in the southern hemisphere of Mercury.[1] Discovered by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974, it was formed by a thrust fault, thought to have occurred due to the shrinkage of the planet's core as it cooled over time.[3]
The scarp is named after sloop Hero, Nathaniel Palmer's ship to explore Antarctic coast, 1820–21.[1]
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