Sentences with phrase «deep crater»

For a 2007 show at Gavin Brown's gallery in New York, he took a jackhammer to the gallery's concrete floor to create an 8 - foot - deep crater that measured 38 - by - 30 feet.

Mount Agung last erupted between years 1963 and 1964, and its large and deep crater started showing recent activity with smoke and ash in late 2017.

The restaurant and accommodation are perched on the edge of a massive volcanic caldera, looking out over the smoking volcano Mt. Batur, and its deep crater lake.

The heavy seas have kept all but one other boat from the 400 - foot - deep crater.

She remembered the way Father's voice came to her through black smoke that smelled like melting asphalt, how the deep crater where their houses had been glowed dull orange behind him as he spoke.

Once you're there, the hike is a quick but rocky climb along the Cleetwood Cove Trail to the top of the 90 - foot - deep crater.

Now, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which has orbited Mercury since March, has confirmed that these radar - bright patches neatly coincide with deep crater floors near the poles that never receive any sunlight at all.

Of all the spots investigated, the strangest by far was found in a 90 - kilometer - wide, four - kilometer - deep crater called Occator.

The spectacular Martian scenery includes a six - mile - deep crater that could swallow half the U.S. and a dead volcano that towers to 17 miles.

Intriguingly, that means water could potentially reach the surface from a deep crater, where there was less ice to get through — perhaps even from a crater like the one where Dawn saw the bright spot.

In addition, ABC reports that the BX32 and BX 36 are still being rerouted due to a 6 foot deep crater in the middle of the street.

I got the deep crater / fall with the non-Dutched cocoa as well (though it still tasted divine!).

Ivy Mike's detonation was so powerful that it vaporized the Elugelab Island where it was detonated, leaving in its place a 164 - foot - deep crater.

After hunkering down for six weeks to ride out a planet - spanning dust storm, the Mars rover Opportunity got back to work in September and began a drive into Victoria Crater, the largest, deepest crater it has yet explored.

Because Mercury's axis of rotation doesn't tilt at all (which means there's no summer or winter) some deep craters at the poles may be in perpetual shadow, and that could protect any ice patches from the heat of the sun.

They landed on nice, hard rock like on Mars or Mercury, exploding on the surface and excavating deep craters.

Among the oddities of liquid impacts into granular solids: slow - falling droplets can make deeper craters than their speedier brethren

Volatile ice occupies a few nearby deep craters, and in some areas the volatile ice is pocked with arrays of small sublimation pits.

The floors of some deep craters near the poles are never exposed to direct sunlight, and temperatures there remain far lower than the global average.

Scientists now believe that ice collects on the floors of deep craters at Mercury's poles, where it can remain permanently shaded from the Sun and reach temperatures as low as -235 degrees Fahrenheit (125 degrees Kelvin).

While the V - 10 beams us effortlessly past slower traffic, four - wheel drive is redistributing the torque with surgical precision, the variable - ratio steering keeps carving out the most pragmatic flight path, the suspension successfully deals with deep craters and sharp ridges, and the brakes reel us in from the brink time after time.

These beaches are famous as sea turtle breeding grounds and under the shade of trees further up the shore we find deep craters gouged out by the patient effort of scaled flippers.

Several deep craters are lined with singed vegetation and mineral pools.

With depths of up to 500m, it is said to be among the world's deepest crater lakes.

Not exact matches

Beyond the familiar sights that have long attracted tourists to the Hawaiian Islands, visitors today are finding, in the deep waters off the storied beaches, in the craters and in the mountains, new sights, new beauty and a new bounty of sport

Morgan asked the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), a global collaboration of marine research, for more than $ 100 million to collect six 2 - mile - deep cores from around the crater's center to better understand peak ring formation and the impact's environmental effects.

Much of its prospecting will go on deep inside lunar craters, where it can't rely on solar panels and cameras like most spacecraft.

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.

«The fast - moving river cut a 1 - mile long breach in late December through early January, scouring out a crater lake and deep gullies info adjacent farmland.

The most likely model predicts that the impactor will create a crater 400 feet in diameter and nearly 100 feet deep.

Prior to CRaTER and recent measurements by the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on the Mars rover Curiosity, the effects of thick shielding on cosmic rays had only been simulated in computer models and in particle accelerators, with little observational data from deep space.

CRaTER's seminal measurements now provide quantified, radiation hazard data from lunar orbit and can be used to calculate radiation dosage from deep space down to airline altitudes.

The crater is 285 miles across and 8 miles deep and no doubt was created when another asteroid slammed into Vesta.

Second Life: Just months after the craft dropped its payload to Earth in 2006, remotely fired its thrusters to change its course for a new mission, called Stardust - NExT, to photograph the crater created by Deep Impact.

Each grainy image took eight hours to receive, but the payoff was huge: Surprising evidence of deep impact craters banished the popular idea of Mars as a chillier version of Earth.

Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater

Their abundant presence on this peak may be tied to the liquid carbon dioxide spewed by the volcano's hydrothermal vents, which kills virtually all life in the deeper reaches of the crater.

Among other things, GRACE may have found a crater deep under the Antarctic ice that may mark an asteroid impact greater than the one that doomed the dinosaurs, measured the seafloor displacement that triggered the tsunami of 2004, and quantified changes in subsurface water in the Amazon and Congo river basins.

The eruption destroyed the top three thousand feet of the volcano, blasting it into the air in pieces, leaving behind only a large crater three miles wide and half a mile deep, as though the mountain had been struck by a meteor.

It is surrounded by a mile - high rampart of material that was ejected from the crater — enough rock to bury the continental United States under a two - mile - deep layer.

In particular, the Deep Impact mission blasted a crater in the comet Tempel 1 so astronomers could study the makeup of the debris, providing a «Rosetta stone» for interpreting the composition of material around stars, says Lisse, who led the Deep Impact analysis.

Clays also tend to be found in and around large impact craters, where material from deep below the surface has been excavated.

Spanning northern latitudes of 43 ° to 56 ° (Phoenix landed at 68 ° N), five new craters were a few meters in diameter, a few decimeters deep, and floored with a bright, white material that looked like clean ice.

They also looked at whether craters made by the comets hitting the surface could excavate enough nitrogen — but that would require a very deep layer of nitrogen ice at the surface, which is not proven.

The target was Cabeus, a crater hoped to be rich in ice kept in deep freeze in the crater's permanent shadows.

You can scoop up bits of stishovite at the scene of meteorite impacts, such as a 50,000 - year - old meteor crater in Arizona that measures about 3 / 4 - mile across and about 570 feet deep.

Scientists thought most of Vesta outside the south polar region might be flat like the Moon, yet some of the craters outside that region formed on very steep slopes and have nearly vertical sides, with landslides often occurring in the regolith, the deep layer of crushed rock on the surface.

Scientists revealed that the deep hole on Mars is not an impact crater, due to the lack of signs of ejecta or a raised rim.

«Typically the deepest excavation would be in the middle of the crater.

The crater is about 109 km across and about 1 km deep.