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    Vostok Rupes is an escarpment on Mercury. The scarp is a surface manifestation of a thrust fault, which formed when the planet contracted as its interior...
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  • Vostok), a station of Minsk Metro, Minsk, Belarus Vostok Rupes, a mountain chain on planet Mercury Cape Vostok, the west extremity of the Havre Mountains and...
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  • after mythological names associated with Mercury; escarpments are called rupes and are named after the ships of famous explorers; long, narrow depressions...
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    Antarctic, discovered by Bellingshausen in 1821. Vostok Rupes, a mountain chain on planet Mercury. Vostok Station, a Russian Antarctic research station located...
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    long Messina Chasma on Titania, 622 km Kachina Chasmata on Ariel, Verona Rupes on Miranda, and Mommur Chasma on Oberon. "The Ethiopian Rift Valley". Giacomo...
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    music theorist Guido of Arezzo, who lived from 990 to 1050. The scarp Vostok Rupes cuts across Guido d'Arezzo and the unnamed crater to the northwest. The...
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    plains formation, some localized within older basins. Scarps such as Vostok Rupes (in the Discovery quadrangle adjacent to the north) are apparently the...
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    during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (commander of the lead ship Vostok) and Mikhail Lazarev (commanding Mirny) circumnavigated the globe, discovered...
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    the Bay of Whales in Antarctica during his quest for the South Pole Fram Rupes, an escarpment on Mercury Fram crater, a small crater on Mars, visited by...
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    According to certain authors, the Jabal Qaf of Muslim cosmology is a version of Rupes Nigra, a mountain whose ascent, like Dante's climbing of the Mountain of...
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    visited the islands in 1820–21. Also named after Palmer's sloop Hero is Hero Rupes, an escarpment which was discovered in the southern hemisphere of the planet...
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    attracted to a hypothetical "magnetic island" somewhere in the far north (see Rupes Nigra), or to Polaris, the pole star. The idea that Earth itself acts as...
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    was named in 1910, long before the discovery of the wreck there. Terror Rupes an escarpment on Mercury Terror Street in the suburb of Keilor Park in Melbourne...
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  • 25 km (15.5 mi) Olympus Mons, Mars Tallest cliff 20 km (12.4 mi) Verona Rupes, Miranda, Uranus Largest impact crater 2,700 km (1,700 mi) North Polar Basin...
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    ammunition. A 425 km-long (264 mi) scarp on Mercury has been named Belgica Rupes by the International Astronomical Union based on a suggestion by the MESSENGER...
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    long 38° W.), Vostok (lat 38° S., long 20° W.), Adventure (lat 64° S., long 63° W.), and Resolution (lat 63° S., long 52° W.) Rupes are the most prominent...
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  • Detective Comics #469 (May) Tuatara, in Super Friends #08 (November) Valentina Vostok, in Showcase #94 (August) Tobias Whale, in Black Lightning #01 (April) Aqueduct...
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