Sentences with phrase «crater thrown»
On the road, this car absorbs every bump / pavement crack / crater thrown at it.
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Wilson cratered in the wintry climate of Green Bay, throwing for 240 yards but failing to lead his Seahawks into the end zone until this game was far out of reach.
Now a team led by William Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has modelled how dust could be thrown up at the moon's poles, where the solar wind blows horizontally over crater rims.
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.
High - resolution images from the Mars Global Surveyor are throwing into doubt conventional assumptions about the Red Planet's craters.
The spherules, known as microtektites, are droplets of molten rock that were melted and thrown out of the impact crater by the energy of the projectile, or condensed from rock that was vaporized upon impact.
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 image, captured when Mars was just 50 million miles from Earth — a mere stone's throw away in the cosmic scale of things — shows russet Martian deserts pockmarked with craters and bright frosty polar caps shrouded, in some regions, in a thin haze of clouds.
While Price is not expecting any time soon a mission to Mars to drill several hundred meters beneath the surface, methanogens (methane - generating Archaea) could just as easily be detected around meteor craters where rock has been thrown up from deep underground.
That's right: The highly anticipated comet has smacked down into the game, making a nice crater in Dusty Depot, throwing gravity into question, and leaving... something behind.
Walking the broad streets, with their tasteful fin - de-sie ̀cle houses — only occasionally interspersed with postwar buildings, hastily thrown up to plug the bomb craters of World War II — you'll find your way to galleries like Galerie Max Hetzler and Buchholz or, a few streets down, Mathew Gallery, run by David Lieske and Peter Kersten, whose music label Dial has been responsible for some of the finest house music to come out of Germany in the last 15 years.
They range in age from old enough to have the thrown soil around the edge of the crater overgrown (which would suggest 100's to 1000's of years there) to comparatively new holes with fresh spoil around them.