Sentences with phrase «known impact basins»

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The impact melted the surface that it hit and gouged out a 77 - kilometre - wide basin known as King crater.

One enormous impact formed Pluto's photogenic «heart,» a basin 1,100 miles wide known as Tombaugh Regio.

The impact that formed a large basin known as Orientale in the western area of the moon's near side, which the group investigated in detail, obliterated all prior craters within the basin itself, an area of nearly 700,000 square kilometers.

This view of 1,000 - mile - wide Caloris basin — among the largest known asteroid impacts in the solar system — shows how lava (orange) filled the blast site before new craters excavated the original basin (purple).

The decadal variations of the AMOC obtained in that way are shown to precede the observed decadal variations in basin - wide North Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST), known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) which strongly impacts societally important quantities such as Atlantic hurricane activity and Sahel rainfall.