Sentences with phrase «into impact craters»

Peering down into impact craters, the probe's cameras have seen evidence that the planet was shaped by several massive floods of lava billions of years ago.

Water obviously flowed into this impact crater several billion years ago, possibly creating a life - harboring lake.

Not exact matches

Drilling into the crater left by the dino - devastating Chicxulub impact in Mexico, researchers uncovered the fossilized remains of pioneering microbes.

It was geologists who first noticed the evidence of huge impact craters on Earth that had formed long after the solar system settled into its present form, prompting biologists to speculate on whether those collisions dramatically altered life's evolution.

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 scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

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.

Although scientists have drilled into the buried crater before on land, this is the first offshore effort, and also the first to go after the crater's «peak ring» — a circular ridge inside the crater rim that's characteristic of the solar system's largest impact craters.

At its base, scientists expect to find a hodgepodge of chunks of bedrock blasted up by the impact and once - molten rock that fell back into the crater in the minutes after impact.

And by drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, scientists hope to settle ideas about how such «peak rings,» hallmarks of the largest impact craters, take shape.

Among the oddities of liquid impacts into granular solids: slow - falling droplets can make deeper craters than their speedier brethren

This month, from a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists will try to sink a diamond - tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater — the buried remnant of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs and most other life on Earth.

By drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased from other big craters on Earth.

The collisions carved two large impact craters into the surface of Vesta.

Secondary craters form when big chunks of rock blasted into the air during a large impact fall back to the surface, leaving a smattering of small craters surrounding the main crater.

By modeling the impacts that formed these craters, a team of international scientists said it was able to peer into the heart of Vesta.

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.

The minerals could not have been formed in a local event, such as an impact into an ice - filled crater.

When an icy impact occurred, the impactor's kinetic energy became heat energy, instantly melted some ice, gouged out a crater, and kicked up into Mars» thin atmosphere large amounts of debris mixed with water (liquid, ice crystals, and vapor)-- and complex organic molecules that obviously came recently from life.127 Then, the dirt and salt - water mixture settled back to the surface in vast layers of thin sheets — strata — especially around the crater.

Dashing through the air and then smacking a demon into a wall by using a heavy attack is a satisfying and refreshing feeling; the controller shakes with the sheer impact Raikoh hits a demon with, and shakes again when the demon creates a small crater in the ground.

It is not clear to me that a comet impact directly into the Laurentide ice sheet would leave either an impact crater or evidence of soot and fires.