Rima Marius

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Rima Marius

Lat: 16.36°N, Long: 49.54°W, Length: 283.54 km, Depth: km, Rükl 18

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LO-IV-150H The prominent 11-12 km craters on the right are Marius B (top) and Marius C (bottom). Rima Marius winds to their west and north, reaching 4 km 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 P.

Images

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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

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Description


Elger

(IAU Directions) MARIUS.-- ... Schmidt in 1862 discovered a long serpentine cleft some distance N. of Marius, which has not been seen since.

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Rima Marius

Additional Information


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 Oct 29, 2017


Nomenclature

Named for nearby crater (Marius).
Number 45 in Debra Hurwitz's Atlas and Catalog of Sinuous Rilles.

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