Sentences with phrase «ejecta plume»

Update: On 16 October, NASA released an image of a faint ejecta plume observed by the LCROSS shepherding spacecraft.

Not exact matches

One reason for the spectacular burst could be that puncturing the comet's crust released subsurface pressure, allowing a much bigger plume of ejecta to spurt out, Yeomans said.

Any rain related to the plume would have fallen after the rocky impact ejecta had been deposited outside the crater.