Astrogeologists suspect that these scarps having formed billions of years ago as the planet's surface cooled and shrank.
太空地质学家猜测这些陡坡是在几十亿年前当行星表面冷却收缩时开始形成的。
We drove on a road right in the ravine under its scarps.
一条公路正好开在这个峡谷里，我们驱车缓慢经过峡谷。
Study results indicate that the surface scarps of the Pinggu area are river erosion scarps.
研究结果表明，平谷地区的地表陡坎是河流侵蚀陡坎。
Some earthquakes produce spectacular fault scarps, and others are completely buried beneath the surface.
一些地震会产生壮观的断层陡坡，另一些则被完全掩埋在地表下。
By comparison, the planet Mercury has much larger scarps indicating considerably more shrinkage over time.
与水星比较，水星更大些的断崖显示了其随着时间长生的更大的收缩。
The surface is a jumble of craters, plains and immense, cliff-like scarps that can be hundreds of kilometres long.
水星表面上杂乱地分布着坑洞、平原和巨大的悬崖般的陡坡，陡坡可长达数百公里。
The shrinkage has wrinkled parts of the moon's surface like a raisin, creating pinched formations called lobate scarps…
月球的收缩使月球部分表面像葡萄干那样起皱，从而形成为“瓣状陡坡”…
Direction of scarps caused by river erosion follows the river, is unstable and the tendency of scarps is symmetric along the river.
河流侵蚀形成陡坎的方向追随河流的冲沟方向，具不稳定性，并且陡坎的倾向沿河对称。
A 400-kilometer wide impact basin is visible near the image center, delineated by deep scarps that drop sharply to the crater floor.
一个400公里宽的冲击坑在图近中间处可见，是被深深的碎片直接掉落在表壳所勾勒出来。
The paleoearthquakes on the Mackay segment had magnitudes of about 7 based on comparing the amount of the displacement and length of scarps.
根据位错量和陡坎长度对比，史前地震的震级大约为7级。
The scarps had previously been noted at the moon's equator, but this is the first evidence in other areas, indicating they result from a global process.
这种断崖先前在月球赤道附近被发现，但这次的发现是第首个位于其他地方的证据。该证据显示了整个月球的运动迹象。
Astrogeologists suspect these scarps may be analogous to the wrinkles on a raisin, having formed billions of years ago as the planet's surface cooled and shrank.
太空地质学家猜测这些陡坡可能类似于葡萄干上的皱纹，是在几十亿年前当行星表面冷却收缩时开始形成的。
The intriguing features, called lobate scarps, are faults created when the Moon's once-molten interior began to cool, causing the lunar surface to contract and then crinkle, they said.
这些被称为“叶状陡坡”的有趣的地貌特点是在月球一度融化的内核开端冷却的进程中形成的断层，这一进程使得月球表面产生压缩，并呈现褶皱。
The intriguing features, called lobate scarps, are faults created when the Moon's once-molten interior began to cool, causing the lunar surface to contract and then crinkle, they said.
这些被称为“叶状陡坡”的有趣的地貌特点是在月球一度融化的内核开端冷却的进程中形成的断层，这一进程使得月球表面产生压缩，并呈现褶皱。
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