Rille definitions

Rille

1) Apollo 11 sighting 2) German girl name 3) German geological term 4) Lunar cleft 5) Lunar feature 6) Lunar surface feature 7) Lunar trench 8) Lunar vale 9) Lunar valley 10) Moon marking 11) Moon surface feature 12) Moon valley 13) Sight from Apollo craft 14) Valley for Selene 15) Valley of the moon
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Rille

Rille (German for `groove`) is typically used to describe any of the long, narrow depressions in the lunar surface that resemble channels. Typically a rille can be up to several kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers in length. However, the term has also been used loosely to describe similar structures on a number of planets in the Solar Sys.....
Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rille

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Rille

• (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.
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rille

any of various valleys or trenches on the surface of the Moon. The term was introduced by early telescopic observers—probably the German astronomer ... [1 related articles]
Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/50

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rille

Hadley Rille on the southeast edge of Mare Imbrium A long, narrow furrow, usually with steep sides and sometimes meandering (known as a sinuous rille), formed either as an open channel in a lava flow, or as an underground tube carrying hot lava that collapsed as the lava flowed out. Rilles up t...
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Rille

Rille (rĭl) noun [ German rille a furrow.] (Astron.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/83

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Rille

An elongate trench of cracklike valleys on the moon's surface. Rilles can be sinuous and meandering or relatively linear structural depressions.
Found on http://www.evcforum.net/WebPages/Glossary_Geology.html

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Rille

Grooves in the Moon's surface which resemble canals or canyons.
Found on http://www.moonconnection.com/moon-glossary.phtml

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rille

One of several trenchlike, or cracklike valleys up to several hundred km long and 1-2 km wide commonly occurring on the Moon's surface.
Found on https://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/glossary.htm

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