Sentences with phrase «expulsed out of the crater»

The instruments on the flyby vessel also will measure the composition of material sprayed out of the crater as sunlight illuminates the gas and dust.

Though the total amount of water blasted out of the crater is uncertain, the LCROSS spacecraft detected more than 100 kilograms in the part of the plume it observed.

Some of the material blasted out of the crater sloshed back toward the middle, creating an 8 - mile - high peak in the center (shown in red here).

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.

«We calculated how much material was knocked out of the crater, and it was far more than enough to explain all the meteorites that have fallen on Earth,» Russell says.

The lava flows come out of the crater with a temperature up to 1 000 Centigrade.

PVMBG head Kasbani said that an eruption would be indicated by tremors and smoke coming out of the crater, as well as an increase in volcanic seismic activity.

Small stones were expulsed out of the crater and rolled down the flanks.

Today the volcano is still considered active but there have been no visible eruptions however it is still very much alive with gas coming out of the crater and the temperature of the surrounding hot springs remaining just as hot as years back.

Standing at the bottom of the volcano, hearing the volcano rumble and observing the glowing stones flying out of the crater was an unforgettable experience.

Not exact matches

If the MOAB were to detonate on contact with the ground, a lot of that pressure wave would be sent into the dirt, digging out a small crater around the bomb.

As Oyedele pointed out, they have «memories of traditional asset classes like stocks cratering and retirement savings being wiped out.»

Here at the end of the third quarter of 2017, a full three years after prices started to crater, it's time to break out the bubbly.

Caught unaware of the underlying shifts in buyer as well as market behaviors, an organization can find itself falling into a crater that could be difficult to climb out of.

Some of you people who want to turn the Hajj into a crater, or eliminate «a lot of problems» by wiping it out don't realize that there will be Americans there too, in addition to millions of Muslims who are just carrying out their religious beliefs.

However, the loaf turned out like Mt. St. Helen's - erupted over the top of the loaf pan, spilling all over the oven then cratered!

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.

Calling out Heck for rescinding his endorsement of his party's presidential candidate after a 2005 video of Trump suggesting he had sexually assaulted women emerged, Obama said, «Now that Trump's poll numbers are cratering, suddenly he says, «No, I'm not supporting him,»» Obama said.

Travel by boat across Lake Ashi, an enormous volcanic crater born out of an eruption, 3,000 years ago.

The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.

«These data are a fundamental reference for the radiation hazards in near Earth «geospace» out to Mars and other regions of our sun's vast heliosphere,» says CRaTER principal investigator Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).

Essentially the height of the Buckingham Palace keeps these methane domes from blowing out the gas and becoming craters.

The notch carved out of the island next to the green clump of vegetation is the crater carved out by the detonation.

That crater spans about one - sixth the circumference of Phobos and looks as if someone took a scoop out of the moon.

Once the rovers rolled out, they began exploring craters and hillsides, and eventually discovered gullies that may have been carved by liquid water during a warmer era of Martian history.

That may not seem surprising, but the team did note one shocker: Craters left by high - speed drops started out with relatively steep sides but within seconds they avalanched to form slopes with a more stable configuration — a previously unstudied process that widened the crater and made it shallower (image above, where depth is exaggerated by a factor of three).

They found that the Orientale strike hollowed out a crater some 320 to 460 kilometers wide — smaller than any of the rings.

Dayton Jones and Thomas Kuiper, radio astronomers at JPL, have sketched a plan for deploying a rover to build a VLF radio telescope - essentially a huge network of wires acting as radio - wave receivers - in a crater on the lunar farside, where the moon's bulk blots out Earth's radio noise.

This crater is much older, arguably dating back to a time, some 250 million years ago, when something — perhaps a projectile from outer space — wiped out the majority of the species on Earth, including most reptiles, sponges, corals, starfish, clams, sea scorpions, and fish, thereby clearing the evolutionary decks for dinosaurs to become dominant.

Now Harmon has carried out a new radar survey of Mercury, which shows that the areas which strongly reflect radio waves match closely the positions of polar craters photographed by Mariner 10, the American spacecraft which flew past Mercury in 1974 and 1975.

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.

Moreover, they add, five out of the six largest impact craters of the last 260 million years on earth correlate with mass extinction events.

I thought these names would have some priority, but when the IAU honoured our crew with crater names, it picked three craters that were not only well out of sight of our orbital track, but also in darkness at the time of our mission.

The giant crater at the centre of the image, called Herschel, was probably gouged out by an enormous asteroid impact.

Peter: (laughs) We had figured out a way that was very important to understand how craters form when the projectile deforms a great deal; so the best way was [to] take an egg, fill ed it up with plaster of paris, and then you just use the yolk and cook them to different degrees.

This odd picture is actually three mountains poking out of the center of a crater.

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.

For example, data from this study has been used to examine the evolution of gas hydrate stability within the Eurasian Arctic over glacial timescales, exploring the development of massive mounds and methane blow - out craters that have been recently discovered on the Arctic seafloor.

But when the crater was full the lava spilled out in the direction of Zafferana, a town of 7000 inhabitants.

«I think the idea of a short catastrophe is incorrect,» agrees Herrick, adding that he leans towards the picture of Venus as a more «normal» planet, with episodes of volcanism wiping out craters over a long time period.

The team plans to observe Juling crater once more before the Dawn spacecraft runs out of fuel, which is expected to happen this year.

When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth about 66 million years ago, it obliterated 80 percent of Earth's species, blasted out a crater 200 kilometers across, and signaled an abrupt end to the Cretaceous Period.

To help figure that out, Goudge and his colleagues took advantage of the fact that most of the sites are located within impact craters.

One of the landing sites, Jezero crater, contains a paleo - delta, where proponents believe organic matter (if ever present on Mars) could have been concentrated out on the toe (low energy) part of the delta, which emptied into an ancient lake.

Subsea pingos can potentially blow out, without massive attention, as was the case with the highly visible Yamal craters, but with massive expulsions of methane into the ocean.

When he started inspecting nearby craters to work out the direction of the sunlight and shadows, however, he realized that those channels weren't channels at all; they were ridges of material and possible evidence for glacial deposits.

As five impact craters on Mercury receive names, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is about to create another, since it has run out of propellant and is predicted to impact on the surface of the planet at 8:26 pm BST today.

That gas burst out of the domes, leaving giant craters.

For the lunar imagers out there, a real challenge is to see how many of Plato's cratelets you can capture on the floor of the crater, as many of them are smaller than 2 km across.

A section of the image, containing the «Face» and a couple of nearly impact craters and hills, was «cut» out of the full image and reproduced separately.