Rupes

Rupes ( Latin for " divide", " furrow ", " crack " ) is in geology and planetary science, the term for elongate canyon-like fault lines, gutters, ditches or ground levels on the Earth's moon and other celestial bodies in the solar system. As a small, recessed line structures of up to 400 km in length, they are a sign of tension forces within the rock or ice crust.

On the Moon Rupes some of these have more the character of a ground level as a rut, as the Rupes Altai and the "Long Wall " ( Rupes Recta ). The latter is by no means a 100 km long steep slope, as they appear in the half- moon in grazing light, but only about 10 ° inclined and with rising sun almost invisible.

Rupes on the moon

• Rupes Altai
• Rupes Boris
• Rupes Cauchy
• Rupes Kelvin
• Rupes Liebig
• Rupes Mercator
• Rupes Recta
• Rupes Toscanelli.

Rupes on other celestial bodies

• Verona Rupes on Uranus moon Miranda