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Space/Science » in reply to In picture 7 the fault lines show a strange predilection to criss cross the middle of the big craters.

I noticed that too.

It doesn't seem to be a coincidence - looks like the presence of the craters focusses the deformation, like if you scratch a pane of glass then bend it, it will break at that point, or perforated paper...

Different sets of faults line up running from one moderate sized crater to another, and across their floor, and another generation of faults does so in another direction - leading to the criss-cross in each crater.

Another of those "obvious" things we never thought about until we saw it!

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