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  • Thumbnail for Caloris Planitia
    large area of hilly, grooved terrain, with few small impact craters that are known as chaotic terrain (also "weird terrain"). It is thought by some to...
    10 KB (1,092 words) - 18:57, 24 May 2024
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    chaos terrain on Mercury is antipodal to the Caloris basin. They are the result of the ejecta and resurfacing caused by such a large impact. The chaotic terrain...
    19 KB (2,354 words) - 18:14, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sputnik Planitia
    contributes to making a topographic depression a cold trap. The terrain on Pluto antipodal to Sputnik Planitia may have been altered by the focusing there...
    27 KB (2,807 words) - 07:40, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arecibo Catena
    located at latitude 27.5 S, longitude 28.4 W, in the hilly and chaotic terrain antipodal to Caloris Basin. Arecibo Catena is connected to Petrarch crater...
    1 KB (84 words) - 15:37, 4 March 2024
  • through the center of the Earth would intersect the Earth's surface. It is antipodal to the South Geomagnetic Pole. Because of the fluid nature of the Earth's...
    196 KB (18,440 words) - 15:25, 10 June 2024
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    March 2020. Roddriquez, J. Alexis P.; et al. (16 March 2020). "The Chaotic Terrains of Mercury Reveal a History of Planetary Volatile Retention and Loss...
    32 KB (3,522 words) - 16:27, 5 June 2024
  • antimeridian 1.  The meridian of longitude that is directly opposite or antipodal to a given meridian, i.e. the imaginary line that is exactly 180 degrees...
    261 KB (26,722 words) - 03:48, 1 June 2024