Divalia Fossa
Divalia fossa is the largest digging a series of parallel to the crater Rheasilvia extending equatorial grooves on the asteroid Vesta .
It measures an average of 10 km in diameter (22 km at the widest point), is about 5 km deep and surrounds most of Vesta's equator . It is assumed that Divalia Fossa was caused as a compression fracture by the formation of the impact crater Rheasylvia. It is one of the largest rifts in the solar system and was named after the Roman festival Divalia .
See also
- Saturnalia Fossa , the largest rift valley in Venice
- Fossa (astrogeology)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Divalia Fossae in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- ↑ NASA image of the day ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
