Spatial rift
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Rift valleys are well known on Earth, of course. For instance, in Africa they represent the breakup of that continent into two separate plates. There also is a remarkable rift valley on the planet Venus.
Rift valley- an elongated valley formed by the depression of a block of the planet's crust between two faults or groups of faults of approximately parallel strike
Right ascension- the celestial coordinate analogous to longitude on Earth ...
Rift Valley
A long, straight, deep valley produced By the separation of crustal plates.
Ring Galaxy ...
Rift
a fracture or crack in a planet's surface caused by extension.
Rift valley on Venus
The perspective in cases like this is synthesized from radar data taken from different positions in orbit.
Great Rift
A "split" in the Milky Way between Cygnus and Sagittarius caused by a succession of large, overlapping dark clouds in the equatorial plane of the Galaxy. It is about 100 pc distant.
Great Wall ...
GREAT RIFT
The great rift is a series of dark, obscuring dust clouds in the Milky Way galaxy. These clouds stretch from the constellation Sagittarius to the constellation Cygnus.
Renewed rift
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rift -- A valley formed at a divergence zone or other area of extension.
rille -- One of several trenchlike, or cracklike valleys up to several hundred km long and 1-2 km wide commonly occurring on the Moon's surface.
The giant rift Ithaca Chasma cuts across the disk. Much of the topography seen here, including that of Ithaca Chasma, has a soft, muted appearance. It is clearly very old and has been heavily bombarded by impacts over time.
rift zone (Photoglossary of Volcanic Terms - USGS) A rift zone is an elongate system of crustal fractures associated with an area that has undergone extension (ground has spread apart).
Three of the four inner planets (Venus, Earth and Mars) have substantial atmospheres; all have impact craters and tectonic surface features such as rift valleys and volcanoes.
From earth, this system appears to consist mainly of two bright outer rings, denoted A and B, separated by a dark rift—discovered by the Italian-French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini—known as Cassini's division, plus a third, ...
Gelatin Volcanoes (PDF, 160 KB): Participants develop an awareness of how magma moves inside volcanoes, what dikes look like underground, and why Hawaiian volcanoes have rift zones by watching as red food coloring is injected into gelatin.
Further evidence supporting this theory was the reappearance of a rift in the NPC that seems to only appear when the cap is smaller than "normal".
Vastly larger dark clouds thread their way through the Milky Way's background, the most prominent of which is the southern extension of the Great Rift, which to the south of central Cygnus splits the Milky Way in two.
The surface of Mars shows impact craters, like the Moon, mountains, rift valleys, ridges, hills plains and extinct volcanoes. There are signs that water existed on the surface at some earlier stage of the planet.
Volcanic activity was considerably higher than today, with numerous hot spots, rift valleys, and eruption of lavas including unusual types such as komatiite.
In places where the crust is thin, as in the ocean, a rift or crack can form. This will slowly fill in with basaltic material (lava) as the two pieces of crust are pushed further apart.
These places are at the midocean ridges (such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that bisects the Atlantic Ocean) and continental rift zones (such as the East Africa Rift Zone).
This is called the Great Rift and it is caused by dark nebulae composed of dust and cold gas. Vela also contains many double and triple stars, several small star clusters and one of the most famous supernova remnants in the sky.
The next summer I worked on a team project concerning Rift Valley Fever. We used RVF statistics and risk maps to produce tools that could help governments create early action plans.
Due to a lane of obscuring dust known as the Great Rift, the Milky Way splits in two through this constellation and also through Ophiuchus.
Serpent's Tail runs along the Great Rift, a dense dust lane splitting summer Milky Way from Cygnus to Centaurus in two luminous ribbons.
In areas of divergence, two plates move in opposite directions. Buoyant upwelling motions force the plates apart at rift zones (such as along the middle of the Atlantic Ocean floor) where magmas from the underlying mantle rise to form new oceanic ...
Whilst there is no tectonic plate motion on Mars, surface features suggest motion in the mantle. Valles Marineris, a rift valley some 4000 km long and 600 km wide, exists as well as the Tharsis rise, ...
Tarazed is a giant star located near the Great Rift of the summer-time Milky Way.
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Virva N.
Diffuse Nebulae NGC 6960, NGC 6992, NGC 7000, I 5070, I 5067, The Cygnus Rift
Star clusters M 29, M 39, NGC 6866, NGC 7209
Radio galaxy Cyg A
X-ray source Cyg X-1
Meteor Showers: October Cygnids, Kappa Cygnids ...
The longest dark rift observed on photographic plates of the star clouds of the Milky Way is a succession of dark nebulae.
When a few of our ancestors stared up at our lone natural satellite, they never saw the mountains which exist on the Moon, nor the huge impact craters, or long rift valleys. But they did believe they saw one kind of formation similar to the Earth.
As shown in a 2002 Astronomy Picture of the Day, located just outside the Local Bubble are: high-density molecular clouds such as the Aquila Rift which surrounds some star forming regions; the Gum Nebula, ...
All have impact craters, and all but one possess tectonic surface features, such as rift valleys and volcanoes.
Much of the Martian surface is very old and cratered, but there are also much younger rift valleys, ridges, hills and plains.
The forces acting upon a rock mass are generally termed compressional (squeezing together), tensional (pulling apart), or shear (parallel sliding). Common landforms resulting from tectonic processes are mountain ranges, rift zones, faults, ...
 See also: Earth, Second, Field, Time, Distance
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