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Tiger Stripe Fractures (Enceladus)

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A series of subparallel fractures associated with jets of vapor and ice particles in the southern polar terrain of Enceladus (Fig. 1).

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(a) Tiger stripe fractures PIA06254. (b) Active plumes (jets), Cassini N00205019 (NASA/JPL/SSI)

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  1. Space Science Institute, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Alexey A. Pankine

  2. Planetary Science Research Group, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

    Henrik Hargitai

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Pankine, A.A., Hargitai, H. (2014). Tiger Stripe Fractures (Enceladus). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_375-1

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