Planet Four Talk

Spider channel formation.

  • p.titchin by p.titchin

    Couldn't resist putting this on the board. This type of spider development covers miles and miles on the HiRISE view. Not 'polygonal' or 'rectolinear' , not 'dendritic' or 'spider' ??HOW?? .

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  • mschwamb by mschwamb scientist, translator

    Nice catch. This looks like 'unorganized lace' terrain (see here page 8) to me . Planet Four PI Candy Hansen had a paper where she describes a few of the different types of spiders. The press release link I've included shows some examples of those different subclasses.
    Cheers,
    ~Meg

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  • p.titchin by p.titchin in response to mschwamb's comment.

    😃 Fantastic link! 'unorganised lace' it is!! Many thanks

    Pete

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  • Kitharode by Kitharode moderator

    Good indeed. Don't know how I've not seen that before. Thanks Meg.

    For 'organised' lace terrain I offer this. Still one of my favourites: http://planetfour.org/subjects/standard/50e741055e2ed2124000308b.jpg

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