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  Astypalaea Linea
Displacement on Astypalaea Linea at Cyclades Macula and Thasus Linea, and near the southern end of the fault, was 42 km, 41.5 km, and 42.5 km, respectively.
Astypalaea Linea is probably not active because it appears that various flexii cut the fault.
The discovery of Astypalaea Linea extends the range of confirmed lateral motion to near the south pole, at the edge of the fracture zone identified by Schenk and McKinnon (1989), consistent with the proposal by Pappalardo and Sullivan (1996) that lateral motion is a global process.
pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu /HIIPS/Publications/tufts_AL   (6594 words)

  
 Strike-slip faults on Europa
Astypalaea and its offset are visible in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979 (Fig.
For example, the spring-back would be limited by any inelasticity in the ice, or by any displacement of the adjacent plates that may have taken place as the shear stress was applied (analogous to the motion of one's body forward during the part of a step when the foot is on the ground).
Right-lateral motion would be predicted for Astypalaea because the shear stress curve moved upward during the tension phase in Fig.
pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu /HIIPS/Publications/hoppa_shear   (4269 words)

  
 Nostalgia Travel Agency in Kos island, Dodecanese Greece Other Islands - ASTYPALAIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The island is colonised by former inhabitants of the city of Astypalaea on Kos, which the Spartans have laid waste.
Astypalaea, the westernmost of the Dodecanese group, is geographically and in terms of its architecture nearer to the Cyclades.
It has an area of 96,85 km², a coastline of 110 km, and is 169 nautical miles from Piraeus, 94 from Rhodes, 57 from Kos and 44 from Kalymnos.
www.nostalgia.gr /otherisland-astipalea.html   (898 words)

  
 [62.07] Galileo views of Astypalaea Linea: Strike-slip on Europa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Astypalaea Linea is an 810 km-long gray band located near the south pole of Europa, found from Voyager 2 images to be a strike-slip fault with 42 km of right-lateral offset.
The resulting band consists of en echelon, overlapping pull-aparts, bounded on their peripheries by the sides of the original crack and separated from one another by the strike-slip segments of the fault.
The structure on which motion occurred (and the successor to the original crack) is recorded as a curving break which traverses the length of Astypalaea Linea viewed in the Galileo images.
www.aas.org /publications/baas/v31n4/dps99/146.htm   (356 words)

  
 Geotimes - May 2000: News Notes - Accordian folds on Europa
Their hypothesis, they say, supports the theory that Europa’s crust is deformed by gravitational stresses that result from the moon’s proximity to Jupiter.
The axes of the fold structures in the Astypalaea Linea region are oriented perpendicular to the maximum compressional stresses predicted from the gravity deformation models.
Combining their measurements of fold wavelengths with their knowledge of the physical properties of Europa’s icy crust, Prockter and Pappalardo were also able to calculate a regional crustal thickness of two kilometers around Astypalaea Linea.
www.geotimes.org /june00/europa.html   (666 words)

  
 Catalog Page for PIA02960
The imaged area is in the Astypalaea Linea region of Europa's southern hemisphere, seen with low-angle sunshine coming from the upper right.
Astypalaea Linea is the smooth, gray area that stretches from north to south across the image mosaic.
It is thought to have formed by a combination of pulling apart and sliding of the icy surface.
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA02960   (340 words)

  
 Cleomedes
Cleomedes of Astypalaea was a famous Greek athlete.
Mad with anger, he returned to Astypalaea where he attacked a school, killing about sixty children by pulling down the pillar which supported the roof.
Pursued by the angry citizens he took refuge in the temple of Athena and locked himself in a chest.
www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cleomedes.html   (145 words)

  
 Researchers Find Evidence of Folds on Europa
The folds' direction and location along Astypalaea Linea coincide with models of tidal stress, the gravitational pull from Jupiter that scientists believe creates the pattern of large, canyon-like cracks on Europa's rotating surface.
Prockter and Pappalardo first noticed the folds in high-resolution images of Europa's Astypalaea Linea fracture region, taken by the Galileo spacecraft.
Near the large fracture zone they spotted fine-scale features that typically occur in fold structures (such as the Appalachian Mountains) on Earth: regional patterns of fractures and small ridges which mark adjacent crests and valleys.
www.spacedaily.com /news/galileo-00l.html   (429 words)

  
 Europa Fault Gives California's San Andreas a Run for its Money   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Europan fault, known as Astypalaea Linea (pronounced ast-ipp-uh-LAY-uh LINN-ee-uh) was first discovered in 1996 when Dr. Randy Tufts, Galileo imaging team affiliate and research associate at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, reviewed distant images taken years earlier by NASA's Voyager spacecraft.
Bends in the fault have allowed the surface to be pulled apart as this movement took place along Astypalaea Linea, which is the largest known strike-slip fault on Europa and one of the largest strike-slip faults known to exist anywhere.
Tufts believes Astypalaea Linea is probably no longer active, because large ridges formed more recently crosscut it without interruption.
www.bonus.com /contour/Project_galileo/http@@/www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/news33.html   (793 words)

  
 Jupiter's moon Europa has a ma
The fault on Europa, known as Astypalaea Linea, runs an astonishing 810 kilometres in length — about the same distance as San Andreas.
Bends in the fault have allowed the surface to be pulled apart as this movement took place along Astypalaea Linea, considered to be one of the largest strike-slip faults known to exist anywhere.
However, Tufts, for one, believes Astypalaea Linea is most likely no longer active.
www.exn.ca /html/templates/printstory.cfm?ID=1998120852   (649 words)

  
 Researchers find clues to evolution of Jovian moon (GSJ of Sept. 8, 2000)
The researchers say the mountain-like features - found in three regions - are the first indication of compression on the fractured Europan crust, and provide unprecedented insight into the history and behavior of the Jovian satellite.
The Astypalaea Linea region of Europa's southern hemisphere, shown in this photo from NASA/JPL/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Brown, is the smooth gray area that stretches from north to south across the image mosaic.
The folds' direction and location along Astypalaea Linea coincide with models of tidal stress, the gravitational pull from Jupiter that scientists believe creates the pattern of canyon-like cracks on Europa's rotating surface.
www.brown.edu /Administration/George_Street_Journal/vol25/25GSJ02f.html   (471 words)

  
 e-Prints Soton - High energy marine flood deposits on Astypalaea Island, Greece: possible evidence for the AD 1956 ...
Dominey-Howes, D., Cundy, A. and Croudace, I. High energy marine flood deposits on Astypalaea Island, Greece: possible evidence for the AD 1956 southern Aegean tsunami.
High energy marine sediments are described from Livadia and Stavros, Astypalaea Island, Greece, which are tentatively interpreted to be associated with the southern Aegean tsunami of 9th July AD 1956.
At Livadia, the marine provenance of imbricated pebble deposits (referred to here as the Imbricated Clast Unit, or ICU) are inferred from two observations.
eprints.soton.ac.uk /8819   (327 words)

  
 caria - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
Astypalaea, midway between Cos and Amorgos, was a port on the trade-route between Phoenicia, Cyprus, Rhodes, Cnidus, Cos, and European Greece on the west.
Its name occurs in the Athenian quota-lists, B.C. 447-436, and in the latter year the annual sum at which it was assessed amounted to 12,000 drachms (about £480).
On the later issues heads of Dionysos, Athena, and Asklepios supersede those of Perseus and Medusa, and it was in the temple of Athena and Asklepios at Astypalaea that a copy of the Senatus consultum was deposited which conferred upon the city the privileges of a Civitas foederata (I.
www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=caria   (7768 words)

  
 Catalog Page for PIA01642
These cracks and ridges in the south polar region of Jupiter's moon Europa have been rotated into sigmoidal or "S" shapes by the motion of Astypalaea Linea, a strike-slip fault in the moon's icy surface.
These cracks and ridges are located within Cyclades Macula, a region of the fault which has been pulled apart and created openings through which warmer, softer ice from below Europa's brittle ice shell surface, or frozen water from a possible subsurface ocean, could reach the surface.
Such rotated structure is typical of a process known as "simple shear," and characterizes many large strike-slip faults on Earth.
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA01642   (375 words)

  
 EXN.ca | Discovery
Europa's fault is the kind that brings to mind techtonic activity that's made the San Andreas fault that runs through California so infamous.
A comparison of San Andreas and Astypalaea Linea.
This upwelling of material formed large areas of new ice within the boundaries of the original fault.
www.exn.ca /Stories/1998/12/08/52.asp   (615 words)

  
 No Title   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A San Andreas-sized strike-slip fault near the south pole, Astypalaea Linea, exhibits a consistent 35km dextral offset over 810km of length (Tufts etal, 1996).
Previously undetected dextral shear has recently been found adjacent to Astypalaea Linea, and a jagged crack seen near the north pole resembles early stages in the formation of a left-lateral fault, symmetrical with the southern hemisphere offsets.
Block motions were in two separate directions and, as with Astypalaea Linea, occurred approximately midway in a relative succession of ridge and terrain formation.
www.bonus.com /contour/Moon/http@@/www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/dps97/html/H1205/H1205.html   (286 words)

  
 Heroism & Terrorism: Free Muslims Coalition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The tale of Cleomedes of Astypalaea is recorded in Pausanias’ Descriptions Of Greece (6.9.6-8).
Perhaps he used an illegal technique to inflict the fatality, and that is why he was sent home in disgrace.
From a modern point of view this story is somewhat perturbing – especially in light of events such as the slaughter of Russian schoolchildren in Beslan by Islamist terrorists.
www.freemuslims.org /news/article.php?article=768   (1475 words)

  
 Lecture 1
A) Pausanias, Description of Greece 6.9.6-8: At the Festival previous to this it is said that Kleomedes of Astypalaea killed Iccus of Epidaurus during a boxing match.
On being convicted by the umpires of foul play and being deprived of the prize he became mad through grief and returned to Astypalaea.
Attacking a school there of about sixty children he pulled down the pillar which held up the roof.
www.uh.edu /~cldue/3307/lectures/lecture1.html   (1197 words)

  
 BibleMaster.com - Study Aids - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
The large plane tree in the center of the town (over 2,000 years old) is called "the tree of Hippocrates" to this day.
The older capital, Astypalaea, was in the western part of the island, the later (since 366 BC) in the eastern part.
From almost every point can be seen beautiful landscapes and picturesque views of sea and land and mountain.
www.biblemaster.com /bible/ency/isb/view.asp?number=2341   (261 words)

  
 Aegean Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ægina, Amorgos, Anaphi, Andros, Antiparos, Astypalaea, Chios, Cos, Delos, Halki, Ikaria, Ios, Kalymnos, Karpathos, Kassos, Kastellorizo, Kea, Kimolos, Kythnos, Lemnos, Leros, Lesbos, Milos, Mykonos, Naxos, Nisyros, Paros, Patmos, Polykandros, Rhodes, Salamis, Samos, Samothraki, Seriphos, Sikinos, Siphnos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros, the Sporades, Symi, Syros, Thasos, Thera, Tilos, Tinos.
An island in the Aegean, located with Naxos to the northwest and Astypalaea to the southeast.
A small island in the southern Cyclades, with Thera to the west and Astypalaea to the east.
www.hostkingdom.net /aegean.html   (2070 words)

  
 Water on Europa
The discovery of Astypalaea Linea in 1996 by Galileo has allowed for speculation on the possibility of the water beneath the surface concurring with volcanic activity to create ice-filled faults.
If, in fact, water is welling up to fill the faults, then it is freezing as it reaches the bitter surface (5).
This Galileo image shows the Astypalaea Linea fault (red line) near the moon's south pole.
www-personal.umich.edu /~kknoke/water.html   (674 words)

  
 Galileo shows closeup view of Europa fault
New pictures from NASA's Galileo spacecraft show a closeup view of a fault, or fracture, on Jupiter's icy moon Europa that stretches as long as the California segment of the infamous San Andreas fault.
The Europan fault, known as Astypalaea Linea (pronounced ast-ipp-uh-LAY-uh LINN-ee-uh) was first discovered in 1996 when Dr.
Randy Tufts, Galileo imaging team affiliate and research associate at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, reviewed distant images taken years earlier by NASA's Voyager spacecraft.
www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/98/gleuropafault.html   (744 words)

  
 Cleomedes of Astypalaea
At the Festival previous to this it is said that Cleomedes of Astypalaea killed Iccus of Epidaurus during a boxing-match.
The response given by the Pythian priestess was, they say, as follows: Last of heroes is Cleomedes of Astypalaea; Honour him with sacrifices as being no longer a mortal.
So from this time have the Astypalaeans paid honours to Cleomedes as to a hero.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/CleomedesOfAstypalea.html   (273 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 391 (v. 1)
On this page: Astypalaea – Asychis – Atabyrius – Atalante – Atarrhias – Ataulphus
She was a sister of Europa, and became by Posei­don the mother of the Argonaut Ancaeus and of Eurypylus, king of the island of Cos.
The island Astypalaea among the Cyclades derived its name from her.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0400.html   (1061 words)

  
 Astypalaea Linea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Galileo images of this fault are broadening models and may help build understanding of earth movements on our own planet.
Broad areal coverage of Europa obtained by Voyager 2 in 1979 (left image) offered the first view of this intriguing fault called Astypalaea Linea.
Here on Earth, unlike Europa, large strike-slip faults like the San Andreas are set in motion by plate tectonic forces.
www2.jpl.nasa.gov /galileo/sepo/atjup/europa/asty.html   (396 words)

  
 Onesicritus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)
Onesicritus of Astypalaea was a member of Alexander the Great's expedition.
He was the steersman of Alexander's flagship during the voyage down the Indus, and he took the same role during the exploratory voyage from the Indus to the Persian Gulf in 325 BC.
This page was last modified 21:39, 4 Mar 2006.
www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Onesicritus   (281 words)

  
 Galileo buzzes Europa
A computer generated three dimensional perspective shows that bright material, probably pure water ice, prevails at the ridge crests and slopes while most dark material is confined to lower areas such as valley floors.
See also this image of Astypalaea Linea, a slip-strike fault on Europa similar to the San Andreas fault on our planet.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the Galileo mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.
science.nasa.gov /newhome/headlines/ast02feb99_1.htm   (919 words)

  
 Mirago : Science: Astronomy: Solar System: Jupiter: Moons: Europa
A Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa - A report by the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration Space Studies Board Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications on the future of Europa exploration.
Astypalaea Linea - An article about a San Andreas-sized strike-slip fault, written for submission to Icarus.
Chaos on Europa - A long article about Chaos region, written for submission to Icarus.
www.mirago.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Science/Astronomy/Solar_System/Jupiter/Moons/Europa   (223 words)

  
 Visible Earth: The San Andreas Fault and a Strike-slip Fault on Europa
The San Andreas Fault and a Strike-slip Fault on Europa
The mosaic on the right of the south polar region of Jupiter's moon Europa shows the northern 290 kilometers (180 miles) of a strike-slip fault named Astypalaea Linea.
The entire fault is about 810 kilometers (500 miles) long, the size of the California portion of the San Andreas fault on Earth which runs from the California-Mexico border north to the San Francisco Bay.
visibleearth.nasa.gov /view_rec.php?vev1id=2046   (685 words)

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