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How thick is Mercury's crust?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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There is no true answer to this question. But scientists believe Mercury's crust is anywhere from 100km-300km. They get an estimated measurement by taking the circumfrance of the earth and the estimated circumfrance of Mercury and adding them together then they take an approximate amount of earths crust and subtract the crust by the difference of the earths and mercurys crust

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Some of the highest resolution images from MDIS abord MESSENGER have a resolution of about 50 meters per pixel and you need a few pixels to identify a crater so 200 - 300 meters might be the limit.

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1,550km

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