Does the Moon have tectonic plates?

mantle—the solid mantle actually moves at rates of a few centimeters a year. The. Moon's mantle, too cool to move easily, has no convection and no active tectonic plate motions. Fewer movements inside the Moon mean fewer quakes. read more

Others have speculated that the heat pulse due to the Lunar-originating impact was the trigger to start plate tectonics but we show that this is a minor effect of timing. Instead, the enabling factor is the removal of ~70% of the primordial crust of the Earth to a position in orbit 400,000 km overhead. read more

The reason it has a magnetic field is because of the dynamo effect of a molten core, which also gives rise to plate tectonics. The cores of both Venus and Mars appear to have cooled and solidified long ago, with the result that they do not have plate tectonics. read more

Scientists have found evidence of an active plate tectonics system within the ice shell of Jupiter's moon Europa. Earth has long been thought to be the only solar system body with plate tectonics. read more