Burned-In Posted on April 7, 2014 by Stephen Smith ----Electric arcs can produce braided rope-like trenches when plasma filaments move across a surface. Gouges can be created without the lateral surface movement required by fracturing. Do the images transmitted from the Cassini-Equinox spacecraft reveal any lateral displacement? Can fracturing experiments in any laboratory on Earth form the braided seams on the surface of Enceladus?---- “Tiger stripes” in Damascus Sulcus, Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Universities Space Research Association/Lunar & Planetary Institute.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 20:24:50 +0000
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