Vallis Rheita

Vallis Rheita

Lat: 42.5°S, Long: 51.5°E, Length: 445 km, Depth: -2.57 km, Rükl: 68

George Tarsoudis

Images

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Maps

(LAC zone 114C1) LAC map Geologic map

Description

Description: Wikipedia

Vallis Rheita

Additional Information

• Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
  Cherrington, 1969: -2.57 km (this seems way too deep)
• Magnetic field anomaly and nearby gravity anomaly (broad). Milbury et al, 2008

Nomenclature

Named from nearby crater. (Rheita)
 
 

LPOD Articles

Straight Talk
Lovely Rheita

Lunar 100

L58: Basin secondary-crater chain.

Bibliography

A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings (Harold Hill), pages 234, 235, 236, 237, 238.
 

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