Miranda: Verona Rupes |
Miranda: Verona Rupes |
Aug 31 2012, 11:51 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 9-August 12 From: Seattle, Washington (USA) Member No.: 6517 |
Hi...just wondering if anyone has a reliable source for the height of Miranda's spectacular Verona Rupes fault scarp? Estimates for the height range from 5 km to 20 km.
Thanks, --Phil -------------------- Twitter: @philna | seattle.wa.usa
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Jan 12 2016, 10:13 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 7-January 16 Member No.: 7872 |
There seems to be some inconsistency between Stooke's and Schenk's answers about the slope of Verona Rupes. Stooke says 25-30 deg, but t_oner's spherical projections of Schenk's heightmaps seems to suggest steeper slopes, let's say at least double that of Stooke's abstract. Schenk wrote some disclaimers above that the topology may not be 100% accurate.
I'm not really familiar with the methods you guys used to get these results but I would like to know how you reson around these two, seemingly conflicting, results. How certain can we be? Is a significance of +- 30 deg to be expected from the available data? Is it the spherical projection that's not accurate? Edit: Did I read the abstract wrong by the way? Is it perhaps just the talus that is 25-30 deg? |
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