Sentences with phrase «crater central»

Milliken and Sun performed a survey of 633 crater central peaks distributed across the Martian surface.

Not exact matches

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Scientists and oil prospectors have drilled the crater in the past, but the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 364 was the first to explore Chicxulub's central peak ring.

The impact aftermath killed most life on Earth, but the crater itself (bottom)-- shown with a central peak — remained hot long after the blast, perhaps creating a hydrothermal system similar to deep - sea vents.

This view shows Alga Crater's central peak, which is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) wide within the 12 - mile (19 - kilometer) diameter of this southern - hemisphere crater.

Central peaks form when material under the impact zone rebounds, forming an upraised rock formation in the middle of the crater.

Multi-ringed craters are known on the Moon; the inner ring corresponds to the central peak in smaller craters, while the intermediate 210 - kilometre ring may be the edge of the original hole.

Frank Webb of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena has spent two years monitoring ground movement at the Long Valley Caldera, an ancient volcanic crater in central California.

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 IODP team wants to test a leading model for peak ring formation, in which granite from Earth's depths rebounds after a major impact, like water struck by stone, to form a central tower, taller than the crater rim.

They are built by fragments (called ejecta) thrown up (ejected) from a volcanic vent, piling up around the vent in the shape of a cone with a central crater.

(A similarly sized object struck central Canada about 2 weeks ago, but researchers have not yet found the crater.)

«The young and completely isolated crater lakes along the Central American Volcanic Arc in Nicaragua provide an ideal setting to study parallel evolution.

While visiting France a few years back, geologist John Spray of the University of New Brunswick in Canada chiseled some rock samples from the ancient Rochechouart crater in west - central France.

Those three mountains are actually the central peaks of the crater Bhabha, a 64 kilometer (40 mile) wide impact scar on the far side of the Moon.

Vesta also grew large enough to survive a massive battering about a billion years ago that formed the 500 - kilometer - wide Rheasilvia impact crater and its 22 - kilometer - high central mound (above).

For example, a standard impact crater would boast a raised central point, an uplifted crater wall and an ejecta blanket of debris, all of which Siloe Patera lacks.

The most conspicuous feature on Vesta is a giant impact crater located around its south polar region, which is 310 miles (499 kilometers) across and nearly 12 miles (19 km) deep around a «bull's - eye» central peak rising 11 miles (or 18 km) above the exposed mantle rock of the crater floor — that is characteristic of rock rebounding from an impact.

The gravity anomaly of the Lake Tüttensee crater (Fig. 8) is remarkable because of the ring - shaped zone of relatively positive anomalies surrounding the central negative anomaly.

The locals largely rely on agriculture for income but tourism has become increasingly popular due to the relatively straightforward trek to the summit of the central crater Mount Batur.

Explore New Zealand's northern heartland, from the secluded beaches of the coast to the volcanic craters of the central plateau, on this North Island Explorer trip.

Start your day with a breakfast overlooking Mount Batur and the volcanoes crater lake, before venturing downhill through the central Bali's countryside.

Back on the main road and continuing east, there is Goris, City of Trees, which is located in a volcano crater, and has kind of neat downtown, called Central.

Craters of the Moon is in south - central Idaho, midway between Boise and Yellowstone National Park.

There is a photo on Google Earth 6.5 miles away from the Yamal crater of what appears to be a working natural gas well, on a road leading to the central area of Bovanenkovo 16.5 miles away.