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Enterprise Rupes

Coordinates: 36°32′S 283°28′W / 36.54°S 283.46°W / -36.54; -283.46
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Enterprise Rupes
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Oblique MESSENGER WAC subframe
Feature typeRupes
Coordinates36°32′S 283°28′W / 36.54°S 283.46°W / -36.54; -283.46
EponymUSS Enterprise

Enterprise Rupes is an escarpment on Mercury, located at 36.54°S, 283.46°W. It is the longest rupes on Mercury,[1] with a length of 820 kilometers (510 mi). The escarpment was named after USS Enterprise, a ship which conducted the first surveys of the Mississippi and Amazon rivers.[2]

Enterprise Rupes are within the Debussy quadrangle and they cut across Rembrandt crater. The scarp is the youngest tectonic feature observed in this region, because it cuts all other units including smooth plains.[3]

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  1. ^ New Findings from MESSENGERS’s Low-Altitude Campaign, press conference, 16 March, 2015. Sean C. Solomon, David T. Blewett, Larry R. Nittler, Thomas R. Watters, and Nancy L. Chabot.
  2. ^ "MESSENGER Team Names Ten Major Fault Scarps On Mercury". June 6, 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  3. ^ Watters, Thomas R.; Head, JW; Solomon, SC; Robinson, MS; Chapman, CR; Denevi, BW; Fassett, CI; Murchie, SL; Strom, RG (2009). "Evolution of the Rembrandt Impact Basin on Mercury". Science. 324 (5927): 618–621. Bibcode:2009Sci...324..618W. doi:10.1126/science.1172109. PMID 19407197. S2CID 206519109.