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Originally Posted by Total Science
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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
Please define "relatively recently" and provide references that show this.
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"Researchers now believe that Ganymede's more youthful-looking half could be due to a crust that stretched--as has happened in the past few million years on Europa--rather than any sort of icy volcanism, as many had assumed." -- Richard. A. Kerr, 2001
Kerr, R.A., Jupiter's Two-Faced Moon, Ganymede, Falling Into Line, Science, Volume 291, Number 5501, Pages 22-23, 2001
I refer you to the references you ignored posted above. |
This reference says that
Europa has recently had its crust stretched, it doesn't say anything about the timescale for Ganymede.
What it says about Ganymede is that the mechanism when it happened for Ganymede,
without implying when it happened, looks like it
could have been similar.
Actually it looks like the one to ignore the reference was yourself.
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