Sentences with phrase «by smaller craters»

The large impact that formed the crater likely involved a lot of heat, explaining the relatively smooth crater floor punctuated by smaller craters.

Not exact matches

We were fascinated by these rocks and thrilled by our three - day trip in the crater, but it was not until we got home that we realized we had, in a small but not insignificant way, violated the landscape and the spirit of the Haleakala Crater.

We then carry on to the waterfall Glanni and climb the small volcanic crater at Grábrók, arriving in Reykjavik by late afternoon.

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).

The basin is surrounded by grooves and gashes, large enough to be seen with even small telescopes from Earth, created by rocks blasted out of the crater when it was formed.

Last November, prompted by fears that the epidemic might spill over into the nearby Ngorongoro Crater, where the small, inbred population of lions is vulnerable to new diseases, Cleaveland vaccinated dogs around the crater.

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.

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.

Vinalia Faculae, the diffuse bright regions to the northeast of the crater's central dome, could have formed from a fluid driven to the surface by a small amount of gas, similar to champagne surging out of its bottle when the cork is removed.

The smallest craters should have been made by the smallest object, and the largest craters should have been made by the largest object.

I had picked a small but well - formed crater just over the lunar horizon to be «Anders», since it could not be seen from Earth and thus had not been named by early moon gazers.

In 2000, for instance, Malin published pictures of small gullies that, judging from the absence of meteorite craters in them, seem to have been formed by running water within the past few million years.

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.

Revealed in great detail in images taken in March 2017, this belt is cratered, with signs of a small landslide pulled downhill by the moon's gravity.

While splotches lack the detectable rims that craters show, the team thinks the splotches are most likely caused by small impacts of material thrown from larger impacts.

The images, which show the cratered and pockmarked surface of the small icy world, were taken by the Cassini probe, which entered into orbit around the planet in 2004.

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft highlights Axomama Crater, the small crater shown to the right of center; its sharp edges indicate recent emplacement by a small impact.

This close - up view of Hakumyi crater, as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, provides insight into the origin of the small crater and lobe - shaped flow next to its southern rim.

This image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a field of small craters next to Kokopelli Crater, seen at bottom right in this image, on dwarf planet Ceres.

This image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft presents two small craters on Ceres, located in the vicinity of Toharu Crater.

The impact is thought to have occurred between 2008 and 2014, but NASA's High - Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera revealed in 2016 that two large impact craters were surrounded by up to 30 smaller craters.

In addition, the collision with a 372 - kilogram (820 - pound) projectile launched by NASA's Deep Impact probe in 2005 has created a 150 - meter - wide (490 - foot - wide) crater with a small mound in the center, as some of the ejecta of the impact apparently fell back down within the crater, but the crater's relatively soft outline indicates that its edges have undergone significant changes since the 2005 impact (NASA / STARDUST / NExT news release; Astronomy Picture of the Day; David Shiga, New Scientist, February 15, 2011; Jonathan Amos, BBC News, February 15, 2011; and Richard A. Lovett, Nature News, February 15, 2011).

Vesta's south polar basin is dominated by two overlapping craters, where the younger Rheasilvia impact obliterated most of the slightly smaller Veneneia crater about a billion years ago (more).

Although a small correction, it was enough that — projected to one week later when the collision would otherwise have occurred — MAVEN would miss the lumpy, crater - filled moon by about 2.5 minutes.

Hubble resolves Martian surface features with a level of detail only exceeded by planetary probes, such as impact craters and other features as small as 30 miles (50 kilometers) across.

Includes two full - day island visits to North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor or Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater.

Days 9 & 10 Includes two full - day island visits to North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor or Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater.

Day 6 Full - day island visit to either North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor, Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater or Santa Fe, one of the oldest islands of the archipelago.

In addition, there is a smaller crater at Tilted Towers, which despite the predictions of many players were not completely obliterating by the comet.

Dashing through the air and then smacking a demon into a wall by using a heavy attack is a satisfying and refreshing feeling; the controller shakes with the sheer impact Raikoh hits a demon with, and shakes again when the demon creates a small crater in the ground.