Online Lecture Hall for School Students: Mysterious landforms on the planets of the Solar System
08 september, 2021
On September 18, the new season of the Young Geographer's Lecture Hall opens. Professor of the Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography, Dr. Sc. A.A. Lukashov, will deliver the lecture “Mysterious landforms on the planets of the Solar System”. The event is held live online, starting at 14:00.
Complexes of relief forms for which it is difficult to find terrestrial analogs have been revealed on neighboring and rather distant planetary bodies with a solid surface. On Mercury, these are extended scalloped tectonic scarps up to a few kilometers in height. On Venus, there are ancient heights, tesserae with a parquet-like structure. Seasonal streams and lakes of liquid methane on Titan bear little resemblance to the rivers and reservoirs we are used to. Examples can be continued, but for now, we will emphasize the main thing: the study of extraterrestrial complexes of landforms and geomorphological processes allows a deeper understanding of the evolution of the surface of the native planet, which is one of the priority tasks of comparative planetology.
