Sentences with phrase «huge impact basin»
Its charge was simple: Look for signs that Gale crater, a huge impact basin with a mountain at its center, might once have been habitable (for microbes, not...
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Mars, on the other hand, is thought to have been shaped mostly during the period of primordial accretion and the so - called Late Heavy Bombardment, when asteroids carved out massive impact basins and pushed up huge volcanoes.
Kind of like mentioning the impact of ocean heat transport and the inherent lags associated with huge irregularly sized basins.