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Old 15-October-2006, 09:14 PM
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Thanks for your comments.

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Originally Posted by Eric Vaxxine View Post
Marvellous images.

I'm intrigued by the 'snail like trails' in the images. One in the crater on the left and a bigger one on the right hand side near the small crater.
What would generate such marks?
Eric, they're called rilles.

They're thought to have been formed by collapsed lava tubes. Read more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rille
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