Guide to Magellan Image
Interpretation
Figure 9-10. Sinuous segment of simple
radar-dark channel about 200 km long and 2 km wide. Channel outline
at both ends is indistinct, probably because of infilling by younger
lavas. Thin bright returns from channel walls denote steep slopes
that face toward the illumination vector. A transecting relict
channel of approximately similar width is denoted by parallel bright
margins (levees) that cross the lava plains in a northwest direction
on each side of the radar-dark channel. Illumination is from the left
at an incidence angle of 23 deg.
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