Sentences with phrase «serenitatis impact basin»

The feature sits in the Rembrandt impact basin, the second - largest impact scar on the planet.

The work also suggests — based on the sizes of other impact basins in the Moon, Mars and Mercury — that the early solar system was likely well stocked with protoplanet - sized asteroids.

Last year, the Messenger probe — the first mission to Mercury since the 1970s — returned crystal - clear views of the 960 - mile - wide Caloris impact basin, here seen in false color as yellow - orange.

But this initial study helps raise the possibility that some of the original mantle mineralogy, if excavated, may be preserved in the Moon's largest impact basin.

Combining these new estimates with the fact that there are even larger impact basins on the Moon and other planets, Schultz concludes that protoplanet - sized asteroids may have been common in the early solar system.

At 2,500 kilometers across, the SPA is the largest impact basin on the Moon and perhaps the largest in the solar system.

VOLCANIC TERRAIN During a 2009 flyby, Messenger spotted Rachmaninoff, a 170 - mile - wide, double - ringed impact basin.

Its charge was simple: Look for signs that Gale crater, a huge impact basin with a mountain at its center, might once have been habitable (for microbes, not...

The researchers say this indicates an upper crust made of a mixture of rock and ice — in which small craters could be carved — supported by a more viscous mantle of ice lower down, which would allow the biggest impact basins to relax away with time, like silly putty returning to its original shape.

Scientists have explained Sputnik Planitia's youthful appearance by positing that it is an ancient impact basin — a giant crater filled with thick floes of younger ice that, driven by heat seeping up from below, churn and refresh the surface.

Simone Marchi, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, did find traces of large impact basins comparable to Tombaugh Regio in Dawn's data.

For decades, scientists have debated the significance of these rings, which are found around the largest impact basins on the moon, Mars, and Earth.

... The SPA basin is the oldest, deepest observable impact basin on the moon and ranks among the largest recognized impact structures in the solar system,» (shown in the image).

Sputnik Planitia's unique attributes have spurred a number of scenarios for its formation, all of which identify the feature as an impact basin, a depression created by a smaller body striking Pluto at extremely high speed.

Second, it produced one of the planet's largest impact basins, measuring many thousands of kilometers across.

They also took into account the large impact basins that have shaped the moon's topography, and they considered the moon's gravity field together with its topography.

The kind of asteroid needed to form the Martian dichotomy would fall in between that size and those of the rocks that formed other large craters, such as the South Pole — Aitken impact basin on the moon and the Hellas Basin in Mars's southern hemisphere, both more than 1,30 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide.

In 2013, Chang «e-3, an unmanned lunar mission, touched down on the northern part of the Imbrium basin, one of the most prominent of the lava - filled impact basins visible from Earth.

The Chinese lunar rover, Yutu, photographed by its lander Chang «e-3, after the lander touched down in Mare Imbrium, a giant impact basin that had been filled by successive lava flows.

Mars, on the other hand, is thought to have been shaped mostly during the period of primordial accretion and the so - called Late Heavy Bombardment, when asteroids carved out massive impact basins and pushed up huge volcanoes.

Maps of Earth are sharp in detail, as are those for Mars, showing mountain peaks and impact basins in high relief.

«By comparing the measured craters to the number and spatial distribution of large impact basins on Mercury, we found that they started to accumulate at about the same time, suggesting that the resetting of Mercury's surface was global and likely due to volcanism,» said lead author Dr. Simone Marchi, who has a joint appointment between two of NASA's Lunar Science Institutes, one at the SwRI in Boulder and another at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

The site is also near the northwest rim of the giant impact basin Isidis Planitia.

Impact basins are very large impact structures that are more than 300 kilometers (185 miles) in diameter.

Large impact basins are also found on other planets, including Mars and Mercury.

Early in the formation of our solar system (before 3.9 billion years ago) there was lots of large debris striking the surfaces of the young planets and moons; these older impact basins are larger than the more recent craters.

This is a small central section of Hellas Planitia, the largest visible impact basin in our Solar System.

In 2001, Galileo detected that an asteroid had struck the moon, forming the Valhalla impact basin.

Although Kargel's research focused on the icy moons of the outer solar system, his interest was piqued when he saw what he thought was a network of sinuous channels meandering through the Argyre impact basin, a region in the southern highlands of the red planet.

A composite of several Cassini images shows Titan's varied surface, including possibly a remnant of an old impact basin (large circular feature near the center of Titan's disk).

Bright white areas to the south, including the Hellas impact basin at extreme lower right, are covered by carbon dioxide frost.

Research by University of Maryland astronomy professor Douglas Hamilton and New Horizons colleagues, published in the journal Nature, shows that this nitrogen ice cap could have formed early on, when Pluto was still spinning quickly, and did not necessarily require an impact basin.

Two new studies on Pluto were published on Wednesday, revealing a controversy about what lies beneath an icy impact basin in the...

At number 1: Was Pluto's frozen heart formed in an ancient impact basin and was it once closer to the north pole?

This mineral is rare in asteroids, but common on larger bodies (including Mars, which has it in impact basins).

The oval - looking Argyre impact basin (bottom) appears white due to clouds or frost.

The volcano is located just inside the rim of the Caloris impact basin.

New high - resolution observations of Vesta by the DAWN mission reveal that the creatr is part of an even larger impact basin that was created by two massive overlapping impacts roughly around one and two billion years ago, which scooped out around one percent of the asteroid's estimated volume and blasted it into space (more from NASA's DAWN Mission and NEO Program; 1997 NASA / Hubble news release; Cornell University; Thomas et al, 1997; Kelley et al, 2003; and Jerry Coffrey, Universe Today, June 15 2009; and Russell et al, 2012; Jaumann et al, 2012; Marchi et al, 2012; and Schenk et al, 2012).

The Rheasilvia impact obliterated half of an older 400 - kilometer - wide and 12 - km - deep impact basin, named Veneneia (one of the first Vestal Virgins.

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The attorney general said he is giving federal officials a month to agree to the study that would focus on the impact of hydrofracking in the Delaware River basin, which includes the New York City watershed and portions of Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Schoharie, Green, Ulster, Orange and Sullivan counties.

Those impacts uncovered material from deep within the basin, offering important clues about what lies beneath the surface.

The inflows and their resulting impact are likely to continue to affect the situation in the Baltic Sea main basin and the functioning of the ecosystem, and they are also indirectly reflected in the situation of the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia.

«This linkage of basin - forming impacts and volcanism is an important insight in planetary geology and geophysics.»

The study looked at smaller craters within the larger SPA basin made by impacts that happened millions of years after the giant impact that formed the basin.

A basin in the Falkland Islands exhibits traits of a large impact crater, according to a new analysis by a team of scientists.

The impact of the salty, oxygen - rich water that flowed into the Baltic Sea main basin (Baltic Proper) in December 2014 via the Danish straits was still visible in August up to the deep basins east of Gotland.

The impact melted the surface that it hit and gouged out a 77 - kilometre - wide basin known as King crater.

Key to the basin's identification as a potential impact crater are the decrease in the strength of Earth's gravity over the site, indicating a large basin filled with younger low - density sediments, and a strong increase in the strength of Earth's magnetism at the site.

One enormous impact formed Pluto's photogenic «heart,» a basin 1,100 miles wide known as Tombaugh Regio.