Sentences with phrase «of crater walls»

The gullies are unique in that they're carved in sand, and not in the rock faces of crater walls, researchers said.

These regions are typically located on a crater floor or along a section of the crater wall facing the pole.

Not exact matches

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

Defensive end Charles Haley cratered a wall with his helmet and, while walking near the locker of Smith's replacement, running back Derrick Lassie, hollered, «We're never going to win with this rookie running back!»

The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.

Brilliant streaks on the crater walls suggest that even the feeble gravity of this moon is strong enough to erode loose material; bluish regions near the crater rim may be younger exposed surfaces.

Dust devils on Mars weave intricate tracks on the surface (left) and climb the walls of craters (right).

«The top of the mountain goes higher than the walls of the crater.

Russell's team also noticed a variety of colors and minerals on the asteroid's surface, with bright spots — perhaps crystals or another reflective material — interspersed with black streaks on scarps and crater walls.

Only after the crater walls eventually collapsed did the study show replenishment of nutrients from the surrounding sea.

In May, the southeastern rim of the interior crater wall was washed over by the Pacific Ocean, opening the crater lake to the ocean.

AAAS and its partners documented roof damage and a destroyed minaret as well as two craters on the eastern wall of the mosque.

Observations from the Dawn spacecraft have shown the steep wall of a crater in Ceres's southern hemisphere becoming icier as the sun's position changed in the sky.

During summer days on Ceres, sunlight hits the bottom of Juling crater, but the wall remains mostly shrouded in cold shadows.

Bizarrely, a mound of rocks within it rises up about as high as the crater walls.

Spirit has been prospecting in an area called Columbia Hills, while Opportunity has been exploring the wall of Endurance crater.

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A later impact would form a crater and heat up some of the ice patches, releasing water onto the walls of the crater.

«As the rover travels farther down the slope, it will be able to examine increasingly older rocks in the exposed walls of the crater.»

In what is billed as «the squirting gun,» new images of known gullies on Mars show evidence of new flows and deposits, pointing to explosive events in which some form of water burst from crater walls and ran down their slopes.

Opportunity spent recent months examining a bright band of rocks around the inner wall of a crater.

NASA has recently shared an image of what could be halo - like craters in the dwarf planet, which may be caused by methane ice presence in their walls and rims.

For example, a standard impact crater would boast a raised central point, an uplifted crater wall and an ejecta blanket of debris, all of which Siloe Patera lacks.

The strong reflection seen on Mercury is too large to be caused by a momentary «glint» off a crater wall, and when studied in more detail, shares the characteristics of reflections from the water ice seen on Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter.

The researchers studied the RSL on the walls of craters within the Valles Marineris canyon on Mars.

In contrast, the smaller dark spots (which can appear as gray, brown, or red) may be the remains of low - speed, carbon - rich asteroids that splattered such» deposits» onto Vesta's surface, or they may be the result of higher - speed asteroid that melted and darkened volcanic basaltic crust on crater walls and floors, or on surrounding hills and ridges (NASA DAWN news release).

A jagged scarp, or wall of cliffs, known as Piri Rupes borders the young, nearly crater - free plains of Piri Planitia.

Mars scientists also revealed MGS images of a recent rockfall, in which many boulders broke free and rolled down a crater wall sometime between November 2003 and December 2004.

A walk through the sandstone natural art «gallery» will bring you to one of South Africa craters, that is well seen from the lookout point, and in a far distance, you can see Barberton at the foot of one of the walls of the crater.

Safari lodge company andBeyond also had a strong showing this year, landing four out of the top ten spots: Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp, in Botswana; andBeyond Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp, which falls on Kenya's Great Migration route; Tanzania's andBeyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, which is perched on the lip of the crater itself; and andBeyond Phinda Forest Lodge, in South Africa, where the bungalows have glass walls and overlook dense clusters of torchwood trees.

Why not use the Halls Creek Motel as a base to visit the famous Bungle Bungles (Purnalulu National Park), Wolfe Creek meteorite crater or the many features of Duncan Road, China Wall, Caroline Pool, Palms Springs and Saw Pit Gorge.

It is a fascinating landscape to explore, as indicated by the names of sites such as Coral Caverns, the Catacombs, Craters, Pillars and Hole in the Wall.

The fortress - like Seongsan Ilchulbong tuff cone, with its walls rising out of the ocean, is a dramatic landscape feature, and Mount Halla, with its array of textures and colours through the changing seasons, waterfalls, display of multi-shaped rock formations and columnar - jointed cliffs, and the towering summit with its lake - filled crater, further adds to the scenic and aesthetic appeal.

The nests are burrows or caves in the walls of the crater.

The last recorded eruption of Arenal Volcano was on May 5th - 7th, 1998, where sections of the northwest wall of the remaining crater fell apart.

Before you know it, you're passing through Bedugul, with its vistas of the entire southern coast, and then up over the walls of an ancient crater.

Some of the local attractions are The Bundaberg Rum Distillery; Schmeiders Cooperage Craftwork; Fascinating Mystery Craters; Bert Hinkler's (the aviator) House and Museum; Golf courses; Turtle egg laying and hatching (November to March); Whales (August to October); Bird watching in Baldwin's wetlands; Botanical Gardens with steam railway; Bowling; Heritage buildings; Kanaka history; Fly to Lady Elliott Island; River or Ocean fishing charters, Whaling wall art, scenic flights, coach tours.

These types of crater lakes range in size from huge to tiny and are often surrounded by dense forest or vegetation that covers the inner crater walls down to the lake shore.

It makes no difference whether we are face - to - face with one of his large format images, in which he allows the pigments dissolved in epoxy resin to run slowly down the picture carriers in satiated, glistening vertical stripes; or whether we study those works in which small drilled craters disclose many apparently archeological layers of paint, or find ourselves in one of his site - specific, all - over paintings that cover the walls, floors and ceilings, their iridescent stripes of color subduing entire architectures and permanently altering the viewer's perception.

★ Joyce Robins: «Paint and Clay» (closes on Sunday) The combinations of clay, craquelure glaze and watercolor are demonstrated in vibrant wall pieces whose allover patterns of holes or scooped - out craters — redolent of craft and function — are given a double, painterly consciousness with diffuse tints of color.

Echoes of the surrounding landscape resonate in Clark's photographs of spaces within the walls of the base, finding visual rhymes in the craters formed by construction work, peaks of refuse - strewn razor wire and the precisely ordered vistas of military tents.