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Sean C. Solomon
Researcher at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
Publications - 764
Citations - 43261
Sean C. Solomon is an academic researcher from Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mercury (element) & Lithosphere. The author has an hindex of 106, co-authored 764 publications receiving 39206 citations. Previous affiliations of Sean C. Solomon include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Carnegie Institution for Science.
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Tectonic stress: Models and magnitudes
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that global data on directions of principal stresses in plate interiors can serve as a test of possible plate tectonic force models, and an alternative approach to estimating magnitudes of regional deviatoric stresses from stress orientations is to seek regions of local stress either demonstrably smaller than or larger than the regional stresses.
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MESSENGER: Exploring Mercury's Magnetosphere
James A. Slavin,Stamatios M. Krimigis,Mario H. Acuña,Brian J. Anderson,Daniel N. Baker,Patrick L. Koehn,Haje Korth,Stefano Livi,Barry Mauk,Sean C. Solomon,Thomas H. Zurbuchen +10 more
TL;DR: The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission to Mercury offers our first opportunity to explore this planet's miniature magnetosphere since the brief flybys of Mariner 10 as discussed by the authors.
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Stereo topographic models of Mercury after three MESSENGER flybys
Frank Preusker,Jürgen Oberst,James W. Head,Thomas R. Watters,Mark S. Robinson,Maria T. Zuber,Sean C. Solomon +6 more
TL;DR: From photogrammetric analysis of stereo images of Mercury obtained during three MESSENGER flybys, this article produced three digital terrain models that have a grid spacing of 1 km and together cover 30% of the planet's surface.
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Images of surface volatiles in Mercury’s polar craters acquired by the MESSENGER spacecraft
Nancy L. Chabot,Carolyn M. Ernst,Brett W. Denevi,H. Nair,A. N. Deutsch,David T. Blewett,Scott L. Murchie,Gregory A. Neumann,Erwan Mazarico,David A. Paige,John K. Harmon,James W. Head,Sean C. Solomon,Sean C. Solomon +13 more
TL;DR: The MESSENGER images revealed the morphology of frozen volatiles in permanently shadowed polar craters and provided insight into the mode of emplacement and evolution of the polar deposits as discussed by the authors.
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Mantle flow and multistage melting beneath the Galápagos hotspot revealed by seismic imaging
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a mantle plume that is not deflected in the direction of plate motion and whose characteristics are instead controlled by multistage melting processes, which is known as multi-stage melting.