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Resolution Rupes is an
escarpment An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations. Due to the similarity, the term '' scarp'' may mistakenly be incorrectly used inte ...
on Mercury approximately 190 kilometers long located in the southern hemisphere of Mercury. Discovered by the ''
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, thought to have occurred due to the shrinkage of the planet's
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as it cooled over time. Resolution Rupes has an arcuate shape with the scarp face on convex side of the arc. It has a relief of about 0.9 km and is situated between Adventure Rupes and Discovery Rupes. These three scarps lie on a large arc extending for more than 1000 km. Resolution Rupes is separated from Adventure Rupes by a high relief ridge informally called ''Rabelais Dorsum'', which crosscuts the scarps. This means that Resolution Rupes and Adventure Rupes may be parts of one large structure similar in length to Discovery Rupes. The scarp is named after HMS ''Resolution'', one of
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's ships on his second voyage to the Pacific, 1772–1775.


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List of escarpments A list of escarpments follows below. Planets Earth Africa * Elgeyo Escarpment (Kenyan Rift Valley, Great Rift Valley) * Great Escarpment, Southern Africa **Including the Drakensberg and God's Window in Mpumalanga's Eastern Escarpment * Bandiag ...


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