Sentences with phrase «impact crater similar»

Figure Meteor Crater, Arizona, is a recent impact crater similar to those found on the Moon.

The moon is a cold, dry orb whose surface is studded with craters and strewn with rocks and dust (called Figure Meteor Crater, Arizona, is a recent impact crater similar to those found on the Moon.

Not exact matches

Beneath the water and sediment, the impact scar looks strikingly similar to Schrödinger crater on the far side of the moon.

The impact aftermath killed most life on Earth, but the crater itself (bottom)-- shown with a central peak — remained hot long after the blast, perhaps creating a hydrothermal system similar to deep - sea vents.

Earlier this year in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists drilled into the dinosaur - killing Chicxulub impact crater to show that a similar process occurred on Earth.

The shapes seen both in the models and in reality are similar to other funnel - shaped impact craters, such as those seen on NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which collected space dust particles in aerogel.

The cratering record on the moon provides a proxy for similar impacts by interplanetary debris such as comets and asteroids on Earth, the effects of which have largely been erased by billions of years of erosion and geologic activity.

The energy of impacts that create such craters can be high enough to melt rock; these melts cool rapidly, forming impact glass — a smooth, dark rock, similar to its volcanic cousin, obsidian — which contains various microscopic structures and crystals.

The results from their model are similar to estimates obtained by geomorphologists studying the erosion of impact craters and other features on Titan.

To test this idea, researchers from Trinity College Dublin decided to study a much younger impact crater to see if zircon crystals similar to the very old ones could possibly have formed in these violent settings.

This location was chosen because it is one of the most Mars - like locales on the face of the Earth: the island is completely uninhabited and unvegetated; it receives almost no precipitation, and is thus nearly as dry as Mars; temperature extremes approach those of Mars; the impact crater where the station is located is similar to many such craters on Mars.