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To: cripplecreek
I don't buy the explanation for the grooves. We see similar grooves on plenty of other low gravity bodies in the solar system. My theory is still low angle low speed impacts that roll along the surface.

Roll marks in what? The regolith? Does it even have such loose material on its surface?

9 posted on 11/22/2015 6:57:56 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: ETL
I suspect there is a lot of loose dust. Another possibility is lines of impacts from groups of small meteorites gravitationaly bound together.

A photo of the Vesta asteroid shows the same type of grooves.


10 posted on 11/22/2015 7:05:38 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: ETL

In the third shot down you can see a stone sitting at the end of a groove as if it rolled to a stop. I do believe he is right.


18 posted on 11/22/2015 8:55:57 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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