Sentences with phrase «from craters on the moon»

DUST fountains from craters on the moon might be where astronauts have their wishes granted.

Not exact matches

Discovering molecular hydrogen on the moon was a surprise result from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which crash - landed the LCROSS satellite's spent Centaur rocket at 5,600 miles per hour into the Cabeus crater in the permanently shadowed region of the moon.

Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

Furthermore, Schultz's work suggests fragments from these giants could account for a many of the impacts that occurred during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, which occurred from about 3.8 billion years ago to around 4 billion years, when scientists think most of the craters we see on the Moon and Mercury were formed.

They also constrained the strength of Phobos based on results from simulations of the 10 - kilometer diameter Stickney impact crater, which formed in the past when a rock rammed into Phobos without quite smashing the moon apart.

«For reasons that we're not totally sure about, the same properties can arise from the scattering of rocky ejecta on the blocky terrain of young impact craters on the moon,» Campbell notes.

A spent rocket stage that NASA sent hurtling into the moon last year in hopes of kicking up water from a polar crater delivered on that mission, revealing that at least a moderate portion of its target was indeed made of ice.

Large craters cover more of the moon's surface on its nearside than its farside, according to new maps from NASA's GRAIL spacecrafts.

Maps from the GRAIL spacecrafts reveal more large craters (big circles) and thinner crust (blue) on the moon's nearside (left) than on the farside (right), where the crust is thicker (red).

But the buildup of heat from the decay of radioactive elements in the interior then remelted parts of the mantle, which began to erupt onto the surface some 500 million years after the Moon's formation, pooling in impact craters and basins to form the maria, most of which are on the side of the Moon facing the Earth.

CRATER CRAZE Images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 2009 to 2015 revealed 222 new impact craters (in yellow) on the moon.

In 1609 Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, using his own telescope, modeled on an invention recently made in the Netherlands, discovered that the Moon, far from being smooth and utterly unlike Earth, had mountains and craters.

The strong reflection seen on Mercury is too large to be caused by a momentary «glint» off a crater wall, and when studied in more detail, shares the characteristics of reflections from the water ice seen on Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter.

You could say that Tillmans, who won the Turner prize in 2000, swapped the telescope for the camera, one kind of eyepiece for another, turning from things that are very far away, like the craters of the moon, to things close to home - the skin of an orange, rolled socks on a sofa, friends and lovers, intimacies both human and inanimate: rumpled clothing, the clutter on a windowsill, the detritus of a party, a bowl of fruit.

The blinking slide sequence includes images drawn from Leavitt's original annotated photographic plates of variable stars, archival images from the «Human Computers» workplace, and a series of over 20 images of craters on the moon named after women astronomers.