Guide to Magellan Image
Interpretation
Figure 9-11. Sinuous rifles emanate
from depressions and enlarged fractures south of Ovda Regio. Segments
of the channels trend parallel to the structural strike (some
northeast; others northwest). Note radar-bright responses of steep
channel walls that face toward the illumination. An impact crater
about 12 km in diameter has disrupted the eastern channel at center
right. Illumination is from the left at an incidence angle of 41
deg.
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