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Old 30-05-2005, 01:08 PM
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No

What you're referring to, is called a "ray".

A rille is caused by volcanic and earthquake activity..
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Linear rilles such as the Ariadaeus are graben - places where the ground has slid down between two parallel bounding faults
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A shallow cleft in the Moon's surface, the Latin term being Rima. Most rilles are relatively straight, but some - the sinuous rilles - meander like a slow river (though their formation is likely to involve collapsing lava tubes, and certainly has nothing to do with water
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