ext_17567 ([identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mmcirvin 2011-07-18 02:41 am (UTC)

The Cassini Titan radar imaging team initially referred to the parallel marks in Titan's infrared-dark regions as "cat scratches". It eventually turned out they were dunes of stuff with a sandy consistency.

These asteroid grooves look to me sort of like the features on the Moon that geologists say are chains of collapse pits over a deeper fissure or collapsed lava tube. But I don't know if you would get something looking just like that on a small body.

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