The Coriolis Effect on Vesta’s Southern Basin Rheasilvia
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Vesta’s giant south polar impact basin Rheasilvia exhibits a spiral deformation pattern. We tested whether or not the Coriolis force has caused the curved features of the pattern. For this we mapped the curved features and calculated the velocities along them using the Coriolis theory. The resulting velocities indicate that the Coriolis force is a candidate to have caused the spiral deformation pattern.
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