Rima Marius
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Rima Marius
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Lat: 16.36°N, Long: 49.54°W, Length: 283.54 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2018 Rükl 18] |
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LO-IV-150H The prominent 11-12 km craters on the right are [/Marius Marius] B (top) and [/Marius Marius] C (bottom). Rima Marius winds to their west and north, reaching 4 km [/Marius Marius] P, where it turns a continues a bit farther to the west southwest. The IAU position and diameter quoted above is not large enough to include the part beyond [/Marius Marius] P.
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Rima Marius was captured on several southward looking oblique Fairchild camera frames made during the mission of Apollo 15. One of these frames is AS15-M-2610 (Hi-Res scan) in which the snaky Rima Marius is seen about halfway between Herodotus (leftward of the frame's centre) and Marius (in the distance, at the curved horizon).
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Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 39D4) LAC map Geologic map LM map
Description
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([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) MARIUS.-- ... Schmidt in 1862 discovered a long serpentine cleft some distance N. of [/Marius Marius], which has not been seen since.
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Rima Marius
The very erratic looking meandering sinuous rille north of Marius P
- The bowl-shaped crater Marius P is the local "roadsign" to detect the most northern section of Rima Marius. Slightly north of it runs another rille. This sinuous rille is a very difficult one to observe through telescopes, but... very easy to spot on the "Big Shadows" version of the WAC on the LROC-Quickmap! See: http://bit.ly/2iOsGyY . The typical "look" of this kind of sinuous rilles (of both Rima Marius and the unnamed one north of it) is very much like the thin meandering "fissures" in a human skull. I wonder if there are much more examples of this sort of erratic meandering appearances in nature (on earth and on other bodies in the solar system). - DannyCaes DannyCaes Oct 29, 2017
Nomenclature
Named for nearby crater ([/Marius Marius]).
Number 45 in Debra Hurwitz's Atlas and Catalog of Sinuous Rilles.
LROC Articles
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