Sentences with phrase «if small craters»
If small craters have been erased by an impact half a moon away, that could mean some of the surface is older than it looks, potentially changing scientists» interpretations of the moon's history (SN: 6/11/16, p. 10).
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If the MOAB were to detonate on contact with the ground, a lot of that pressure wave would be sent into the dirt, digging out a small crater around the bomb.
If the injury is bad enough that small craters of exposed bone are formed, it can potentially mean the end of one's athletic career.
An exception to this may have been if you used a lightweight and / or hollow object that did not sink at least halfway into the layer of flour — if this happened, a relatively smaller crater may have formed because the part of the object that hit the flour was smaller in diameter than the object's actual, widest diameter.
«If we can image missiles 15 000 miles away in distant skies and with the Hubble telescope can see craters on Mars, we should be able to develop better tools to image small tumours in women's breasts that are right in front of us,» says Susan Blumenthal, assistant surgeon general.
If that's an example of the kind of data available from probing the asteroid fragments in these heretofore hidden small craters, he adds, then they're well worth the search.
Right now lot of people are using computational codes to simulate the event, but what I'd like to do is that actually do the whole scale event in small scale; and that way we'll understand why craters look like [they] it do on places like the Moon, Mercury and Mars and Venus; and what might happen to the Earth if we got hit by the next big one.