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Note
This term is discouraged in favor of the more accurate “ridge complexes.” Some previously described triple bands may be “double ridges” or “bright bands” with dark material on their flanks (Kattenhorn and Hurford 2009).
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Albedo pattern of Double Ridge (Europa) or Ridge Complex (Europa) seen under high sun conditions (Kattenhorn and Hurford 2009). At Voyager resolution, they appear as lineations 10–20 km wide, consisting of a pair of 6–10 km wide dark bands running along a central, 1–2 km high, 1–2 km wide, flanking bright stripe (Lucchitta et al. 1981; Senske et al. 1998) (Fig. 1). They can be 1,000s of kilometers long (Senske et al. 1998).
Triple bands in the C2065211 (1364J2-001) Voyager image (NASA/JPL)
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Patthoff, D.A. (2014). Triple Band (Europa). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_384-1
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