Sentences with phrase «biggest impact basins»
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.
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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.
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.
And, Head notes, Orientale is not even the biggest lunar basin — a larger impact such as the one that formed the Imbrium Basin would affect an even larger fraction of the terrain.
A well - chosen decorative basin, or a bowl made from an unusual material can have a big impact on the space.