chasma

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A long, narrow, steep-sided depression on a planet (often other than Earth), a moon, or another body in the Solar System.

   “The near circular trough of the Artemis chasma [on Venus] has a diameter of 2100 km. The concentric features outside the chasma are attributed to normal faulting associated with lithospheric flexure similar to that occurring seaward of subduction zones on the Earth.”

2. isim An aurora.

   “Thus Cornelius Gemma, Professor of Medicine in Louvain, mentions them [the aurora borealis] under the name of chasma, as appearing in Brabant on the 13th February and 28th September, 1575.”

3. isim Obsolete form of chasm.