While observing the seven-day-old Moon recently, I found it especially difficult to detect the K-shaped pattern of
rilles east of Triesnecker Crater.
In fact, the vents of most sinuous
rilles are depressions, as if the eruption caused the roof to collapse as the source magma chamber was emptied to form the
rilles.
Wood's question about what size scope can show the Triesnecker
rilles is answered in Wilkins and Moore's 1955 classic The Moon, where they state that the main members appear in a good 3-inch refractor.
On another outing they drove to the 1.5-km-wide, relatively steep-sided Hadley
Rille. The
rille was formed by rapidly moving lava flows that built up levees along its 80-km length.
Boel Morck and
Rille Pullerits contributed equally to this work.
The lawsuit was originally filed in the Eastern District of Arkansas by Norman
Rille and Neal Roberts under whistleblower provisions of the federal False Claims Act.
As a title in the Archaelogy Series from Hadley
Rille Books, Mayflies was created to be an "archaeologically-accurate novel ...
In 2007, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to pay a total of $5.2 million to settle allegations around the same case, which was originally filed by whistleblowers Norman
Rille and Neal Roberts.
IT company HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that it has reached a settlement with the US Department of Justice which will resolve and investigation into HP's GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract as well as separate allegations associated with the
Rille complaint files in the US District Court in the Eastern District of Arkansas in 2007.
They collected 169 lbs (76.8kg) of moon rock from 12 different sites including Hadley
Rille, an ancient channel believed to have been carved by torrents of flowing lava.
And Apollo 15 landed near a vast chasm in the lunar surface, Hadley
Rille.