Question: Is Earth the only planet of the Solar System with plate tectonics ?
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Hi teodoratudoran28,
This is a great question. The answer is that as far as we know Earth is the only planet with a proven Plate Tectonics. Among the planets the only ones that can have Plate Tectonics are the rocky ones: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Some satellites could also have it. Mars is suspected to have had or have some kind of tectonic activity, it looks that it has two major plates and that rocks underwent deformation at some time in the past. Venus is thought to not have tectonics, but it has volcanoes and large fault systems and it is a very active planet. Europa, a Jupiter’s satellite seems to have ice tectonics, or so claim some researchers.
The reality is that I cannot answer your question for two main reasons. The first one is that our understanding of Earth Tectonics is really far from accurate. The second one is that the data that we have from other planets is really scarce. So most of our interpretation of how the planets work is pretty much speculative. I hope new generation of scientists solve these problems because they are awesome mysteries.
Cheers!
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