Potential Identification of sublimation-driven downslope mass movement on Mercury

Malliband, C. C.; Conway, S. J.; Rothery, D. A. and Balme, M. R. (2018). Potential Identification of sublimation-driven downslope mass movement on Mercury. In: Mercury: Current and Future Science of the Innermost Planet, 1-3 May 2018, Columbia, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

We have identified a further example of mass movement, in addition to the previously identified example in the pyroclastic vent NE of Rachmaninoff. Both examples show evidence of hollow sublimation being a cause of the mass movements.

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