Rupes

Discovery Rupes på Merkur

Rupes er betegnelsen for en måneklint, hvilket er en landskabsform på Månen. Betegnelsen anvendes også om tilsvarende formationer på andre himmellegemer som Merkur.

Der kendes følgende rupes på Månen:

  • Altai Rupes
  • Boris Rupes
  • Cauchy Rupes
  • Kelvin Rupes
  • Liebig Rupes
  • Mercator Rupes
  • Recta Rupes
  • Toscanelli Rupes

Medier brugt på denne side

PIA02446 Discovery Scarp.jpg
One of the most prominent lobate scarps (Discovery Scarp), photographed by Mariner 10 during its first encounter with Mercury, is located at the center of this image (extending from the top to near bottom). This scarp is about 350 kilometers long and transects two craters 35 and 55 kilometers in diameter. The maximum height of the scarp south of the 55-kilometer crater is about 3 kilometers. Notice the shallow older crater (near the center of the image) perched on the crest of the scarp.
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Forfatter/Opretter: No machine-readable author provided. WikedKentaur assumed (based on copyright claims)., Licens: CC BY-SA 3.0

This is a stack of 10 frames taken through a 150mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope.