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Old 30-05-2005, 12:40 PM
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LPOD: Down the Rille

How cool is this shot from the LPOD, 28th May 2005..

http://www.lpod.org/LPOD-2005-05-28.htm

Chuck says it best in the blurb:
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This dramatic Apollo 10 view along the Ariadaeus Rille reveals it as a place rather than a line
Wish we could get that resolution from Earth based scopes!
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Old 30-05-2005, 12:54 PM
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am I right by saying that a rile is one of those lines that radiate out from craters like copernicus?

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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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Old 30-05-2005, 02:15 PM
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oh ray as in ray-diate

thanks for clearing that up
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