Sentences with phrase «as scarps»

«These steep banks or slopes, which are known as scarps, currently only change very slowly from year to year, retreating by a few millimeters and getting a bit dustier in the summer.»

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As early as 4 years old I was using watercolors, playing with my mother's fabric scarps and spending a lot of time outside looking at plants and day dreaming about creating something with all the natural color I saAs early as 4 years old I was using watercolors, playing with my mother's fabric scarps and spending a lot of time outside looking at plants and day dreaming about creating something with all the natural color I saas 4 years old I was using watercolors, playing with my mother's fabric scarps and spending a lot of time outside looking at plants and day dreaming about creating something with all the natural color I saw.

A 1000 - kilometre - long cliff, or scarp, though to be formed as Mercury's surface contracted, was found, cutting across the rim and floor of the Rembrandt basin.

Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).

Lunar geologists reckon that the scarps were created as the moon's core lost heat and contracted.

These eight scarps, with slopes as steep as 55 degrees, reveal new information about the internal layered structure of previously detected underground ice sheets in Mars» middle latitudes.

The side of Pluto's largest moon viewed by NASA's passing New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015 is characterized by a system of «pull apart» tectonic faults, which are expressed as ridges, scarps and valleys — the latter sometimes reaching more than 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) deep.

Over time, as wind blows sand against the small cliffs, or scarps, that bound the Yellowknife outcrop, the scarps erode back, revealing new rock that previously was not exposed to cosmic rays.

As ice withdraws from a region, wind exposes the layers sculpting valleys and scarps.

«The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with new faults likely forming today as Mercury's interior continues to cool and the planet contracts,» said lead author Tom Watters, Smithsonian senior scientist at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Mercury is marked with great curved cliffs or lobate scarps that were apparently formed as Mercury cooled and shrank a few kilometers in size.

A jagged scarp, or wall of cliffs, known as Piri Rupes borders the young, nearly crater - free plains of Piri Planitia.

These scarps are small enough that scientists believe they must be geologically young, which means Mercury is still contracting and that Earth is not the only tectonically active planet in our solar system, as previously thought.

The large scarps were formed as Mercury's interior cooled, causing the planet to contract and the crust to break and thrust upward along faults making cliffs up to hundreds of miles long and some more than a mile (over one - and - a-half kilometers) high.