Sentences with phrase «big crater»

Other researchers argue that long - term global warming might be to blame — and that a slow and steady thaw in the region could have been enough to free a burst of methane and create such a big crater.

After sunrise you will see the big crater and if you are lucky you will find monkeys.

To seek further evidence that such smaller - scale deposits exist, the researchers looked though the altimeter data in search of patches that were smaller than the big crater - based deposits, but still large enough to resolve with the altimeter.

The impactor is designed to make a big crater either way.

By drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased from other big craters on Earth.

Mission scientists chose Victoria as the next crater to explore because «it was the biggest crater we could possibly find,» said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, and the lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover Project.

Mercury and our moon hold other clues: big craters whose ages and patterns suggest a massive storm of comets and asteroids set off by the moving planets, in a pulse lasting 100 million years or so.

Mount Ijen Crater is the biggest crater lake in East Java.

Not exact matches

To some regulators, physical commodities represent a big risk: an operational problem, like an oil spill on an offshore rig, could lead to huge reputational damage and crater the bank's stock, potentially destabilizing it and the broader financial system.

However, whatever happens with the stock price, this is a big moment for the U.S. auto industry, which was cratering just a year ago, and a big moment for the IPOs, which had dried up almost completely in the wake of the financial crisis.

Rural economies in particular have cratered as young people cluster in big cities.

For example, Houston home prices didn't really crater until late 1987, even though the job market plummeted a year earlier and oil prices recorded their biggest year - over-year decline in 1986's first half.

The biggest issue is some malinvestment in key comodities including oil, which will crater some U.S. companies but will hurt Russia and OPEC more.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

I knew everything there was to know about my alma mater's football program, from Don Faurot creating the Split - T (and teaching it to future Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson during World War II), to Dan Devine nearly winning a national title in 1960 (damn Kansas beating Ol' Mizzou with an ineligible player), to the big upset wins (and ridiculous upset losses) of the 1970s, to the cratering of the 1980s and the early 1990s, to the Fifth Down, to the Flea Kicker (which I had the honor of seeing in person).

And the triple - digit opponent was the Big Ten's Maryland, which won at Texas and then cratered throughout the season after losing to UCF, mostly due to injury.

-LSB-...] Analysts warned that such a big reduction in tax revenue would leave a crater in the state's budget, but Brownback -LSB-...] promis [ed] that the cuts would more than pay for themselves by juicing the economy and creating jobs.»

From the origin of the universe (big bang), to the origin of the moon (big collision), to the origin of lunar craters (meteor strikes), to the demise of the dinosaurs (asteroid impact), to the numerous sudden downfalls of civilizations documented by Jared Diamond in his 2005 book Collapse, catastrophism is alive and well in mainstream science.

North of Sacramento, more than 188,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes as the Oroville Dam overflowed, eroding a giant crater into its spillway and threatening to release one of the state's biggest reservoirs.

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.

MESSENGER — which stands for Mercury surface, space environment, geochemistry, and ranging — also determined that Mercury's giant Caloris basin, among the biggest impact craters in the solar system, spans 1,500 kilometers — nearly one third of the planet's diameter and 200 kilometers more than previous estimates.

«We're inside of a big hole in the ground — a crater created by an asteroid 4 billion years ago — and for some reason there's a giant mountain in the middle,» Bell says.

A surface feature of great interest to scientists is the Caloris basin, an impact crater about 1300 km in diameter, one of the biggest such craters in our solar system.

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What size craters did the biggest ones make?

The authors suggest that searches for these impact ejecta layers will be more fruitful for determining how many times Earth was hit by big asteroids than searches for large craters.

The 125 - mile - wide crater could have been created by an object 6 to 9 miles across, possibly big enough to help trigger major geologic events.

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.

If Sharpton and his team are right, it means the impact involved an object much bigger than the 10 - kilometre asteroid suggested when the crater was first discovered in 1980.

Maps from the GRAIL spacecrafts reveal more large craters (big circles) and thinner crust (blue) on the moon's nearside (left) than on the farside (right), where the crust is thicker (red).

This suggests that the biggest impact craters formed very early in Mars» history, and that later pummeling by asteroids mostly dented and dinged the surface.

Secondary craters form when big chunks of rock blasted into the air during a large impact fall back to the surface, leaving a smattering of small craters surrounding the main crater.

Proving that a comet struck the earth, a couple of thousand years before human agriculture, is easier if you have a big impact crater to show where it landed.

More big domes on the bottom of the Barents Sea, not far from Andreassen's ancient craters.

The thought is that rain and, possibly flooding, long ago was the biggest cause of the erosion of these craters.

Here, buy more about the plot holes may be as big as the craters the earthquakes create but the special effects and the script's knowing nods prevent the film from falling apart.

Yeah, yeah, wheel alignments and finding a shop that knows how to do them and compensate for the normal road crown, but when the local roads look like Craters of the Moon National Park, and I really try to avoid the biggest potholes but how long does a wheel alignment, or even a tire rotation last?

According to legend, she resides in a crater in the volcano of Kilauea on Hawaii's Big Island.

The Eagles won the Super Bowl, the Dow Jones cratered, Elon Musk's rocket took off, XIV blew up and Omarosa is on Big Brother.

The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the area - and, by comparison, receives little of the acclaim it deserves... The 55 000 hectare Pilanesberg park opened in 1979 in one of the largest game resettlement projects in the history of South Africa, and possibly the most expensive as commercial farmers gave over land to be restocked with wildlife.

The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the are...

Hike on miles of trails through smoking craters, lava tubes and rainforest while searching for the elusive flowing lava at the Big Island's most famous attraction.

Named after the largest lake in Southeast Asia, Donau Toba, which nestles in an immense volcanic crater in North Sumatra, this villa boasts the biggest pool in the Lakshmi Villa enclave.

Join our Ngorongoro crater safari tours for the ultimate safari adventure, as the crater floor offers superb game viewing with wildebeest, zebras, buffaloes, gazelles, elephants, rhinos and Africa's big cats all present.

Named for the largest lake in south east Asia, Donau Toba, which nestles in an immense volcanic crater in North Sumatra, this villa boasts the biggest pool in the estate.

You'll leave from Honolulu by air to tour the Big Island's landmarks such as Rainbow Falls, Volcanoes National Park and the legendary Kilauea Iki crater, all before returning to your Oahu resort by nightfall for one of the most complete Hawaiian excursions you'll ever have.

«First light» creeps across the crater with magnificent pastels, and once the sun is up, check out the 360 - degree view encompassing the Big Island of Hawai'i, West Maui, Lana'i, Moloka'i and beyond.

I certainly encourage all Big Island visitors to spend a day at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park where you can learn all about the volcanoes which created the Hawaiian Islands, view numerous past lava flows and craters, walk through an ancent lava tube and much more.

On the other hand, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area yet another splendid destination with sights of the uncommon black rhino, the Big Five plus a varied of bird species all living on the floor of the stunning crater.

The mythic aura of this island begins high atop Mauna Haleakala, a towering, dormant volcano whose crater is big enough to hold Manhattan.