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Rilles is a noun used in the context of geography or astronomy to describe long, narrow depressions or grooves on the surface of a planet or moon
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Parts of the remaining floor are marked by a series of rilles.
Precise formation mechanisms of rilles have yet to be determined.
Sometimes they form a dark halo around rilles.
The longest of these rilles follows a course to the southeast.
These features are lunar rilles.
There are also some slender rilles that are concentric to the rim.
Good eyesight and a large telescope are required to observe these rilles.
At least two faint rilles lie along the surface of the floor.
Rilles which show more than one structure are termed hybrid rilles.
The southeast part of the floor is fractured with a series of narrow rilles.
Rilles are snakelike depressions that wind across many areas of the maria.
In the southern half these rilles form grooves running generally from east to west.
To the northwest of the crater is a prominent system of rilles named the Rimae Römer.
The rilles have parallel sides and a constant width over their length.
The interior floor has a system of rilles that are generally concentric with the inner wall.
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Long rilles such as Ariadaeus Rille extend for hundreds of kilometers.
The floor surface contains a network of rilles forming a pattern of radial spokes and concentric arcs.
Sinuous rilles are probably the most recognisable of small volcanic features on the Moon.
To the northeast of this crater is a system of rilles designated Rimae Maupertuis.
The fact that the rilles cross the crater means that they formed after the crater.
In this last stretch can be found the system of rilles named Rimae Plato.
The looping rilles on Europa are not analogous to ice cracks on Earth.
To the east on the mare is a formation of parallel rilles designated the Rimae Sosigenes.
The intersecting linear features to the right of Triesnecker crater are the Triesnecker Rilles.
To the west is a system of rilles designated the Rimae Menelaus.
They are even aligned along graben, the Hypatia rilles.
South of the crater are the rilles of the Rimae Maclear.
A complex of rilles has formed across the floor, forming multiple clefts particularly in the south.
Just to the north is a system of rilles named the Rimae Plinius.
There are some rilles near the inner wall, possibly volcanic in origin.
South of this feature is a system of linear rilles named Rimae Maestlin.
However, the lunar rilles usually flow away from small pit structures.
To the southeast of Grimaldi is a system of rilles named the Rimae Grimaldi.
There are also several rilles marking the interior surface, particularly along the outer edges.
To the southwest of Adams is a system of rilles designated the Rimae Hase.
Europa 's rilles have no analog to ice cracks on Earth.
To the northwest of Ritter is a system of parallel rilles designated Rimae Ritter.
There is also a system of rilles that criss-cross the floor, named the Rimae Gassendi.
The interior floor of Repsold contains a system of rilles named the Rimae Repsold.
There is also a system of rilles that criss-crosses the floor, named the Rimae Gassendi.
To the southeast of Hase D is a system of linear rilles designated Rimae Hase.
Rilles ( furrows formed by lava channels or collapsed lava tubes ).
Just to the northwest is the system of rilles designated Rimae Ritter.
Rilles are especially visible in radar imagery, like that gathered by LRO 's Mini-RF instrument.
Just to the north of Prinz is a system of rilles designated the Rimae Prinz.
These rilles are designated the Rimae Darwin, and they stretch for a distance of about 280 kilometers.
However, they now suspect that the rilles are channels formed by running lava.
Dark halo craters, narrow rilles.
In 1847 he discovered six lunar rilles and continued to make lunar drawings all his life.
About 70 kilometers to the north of Hypatia is a system of linear rilles designated Rimae Hypatia.
