Researchers believe it might have been caused by an impact with
some huge space rock more than 4 billion years ago.
Not exact matches
Such collisions release a
huge amount of energy into universe, warping
space and time as the waves travel outward, like a
rock dropped into the center of a pond.
A NASA spacecraft orbiting the
huge asteroid Vesta is beaming home images that reveal the giant
space rock like never before, showing its battered and pockmarked surface in stunning detail.
These giant
space rocks would cause a global catastrophe if one were to strike the Earth (watch a Japanese simulation of the effects of a
huge 100 - km - wide impactor).
Icy volcanoes on Enceladus launch
huge jets of gas and icy grains that contain fine particles of
rock into
space.
Recently, geologists suggested these grains may have formed in
huge impact craters produced as chunks of
rock from
space, up to several kilometres in diameter, slammed into a young Earth.
You and your friends will join intense 32 player battles to control hollowed - out asteroids,
huge fragments of Moon
rock and the ruined remains of the International
Space Station.