Rupes
Template:Short description Rupes Script error: No such module "IPAc-en". (plural Script error: No such module "IPAc-en".)[1] is the Latin word for 'cliff'.
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It is used in planetary geology to refer to escarpments on other worlds. As of January 2013[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the IAU has named 62 such features in the Solar System, on Mercury (17), Venus (7), the Moon (8), Mars (23), the asteroids Vesta (2) and Lutetia (2), and Uranus's satellites Miranda (2) and Titania (1).[2]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
How rupes formed is, as of 2008[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., a matter of speculation. Compressional strain from the cooling of the crust of terrestrial planets and large-scale displacement due to impacts are the two dominant theories.[3]
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- â The two Latin forms, singular rĆ«pes with a short 'e' and plural rĆ«pÄs with a long 'e', are spelled the same in English.
- â USGS Astrogeology: Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - Feature Types
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