Sentences with phrase «of small craters»

A number of small craters can be found in various cities and locations throughout the Season 4 map, such as Tilted Towers.

This image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a field of small craters next to Kokopelli Crater, seen at bottom right in this image, on dwarf planet Ceres.

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.

There are craters with flow - like features, and craters that imprint on other craters, as well as chains of small craters.

In the case of smaller craters, on the other hand, the scientists found the current list to be far from complete: Around 90 craters with a diameter of one to six kilometers and a further 250 with a diameter of 250 to 1000 meters are still awaiting discovery.

This close - up view of Hakumyi crater, as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, provides insight into the origin of the small crater and lobe - shaped flow next to its southern rim.

Yes, the dent in my desk is now the size of a small crater.

Not exact matches

If the MOAB were to detonate on contact with the ground, a lot of that pressure wave would be sent into the dirt, digging out a small crater around the bomb.

The lending market for small businesses cratered during the recession and has been on a jagged path of recovery.

We were fascinated by these rocks and thrilled by our three - day trip in the crater, but it was not until we got home that we realized we had, in a small but not insignificant way, violated the landscape and the spirit of the Haleakala Crater.

Spoon a small amount of icing in the crater and place a Ferrero Rocher on the top, using the icing as a «glue» to hold the chocolate in place

I tested the damn thing 11 times (because I'm fucking crazy I refused to share a recipe for a cake with a small crater in the middle)(I have serious OCD about properly leavening things) so that's a matter of fact.

If the injury is bad enough that small craters of exposed bone are formed, it can potentially mean the end of one's athletic career.

That's potentially problematic, because planetary scientists use the number of small impact craters to estimate the age of the lunar surface.

Some smaller impact craters appear filled in with the material, potentially reshaping our understanding of the moon's history.

If small craters have been erased by an impact half a moon away, that could mean some of the surface is older than it looks, potentially changing scientists» interpretations of the moon's history (SN: 6/11/16, p. 10).

This raisin - like shrinkage occurred no more than 1 billion years ago, based on the age of pre-existing small craters that the scarps run through (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1189590).

For the next 6 years, smaller explosive eruptions built a rounded, rocky dome of hardened lava within the new crater.

The basin is surrounded by grooves and gashes, large enough to be seen with even small telescopes from Earth, created by rocks blasted out of the crater when it was formed.

Last November, prompted by fears that the epidemic might spill over into the nearby Ngorongoro Crater, where the small, inbred population of lions is vulnerable to new diseases, Cleaveland vaccinated dogs around the crater.

The study looked at smaller craters within the larger SPA basin made by impacts that happened millions of years after the giant impact that formed the basin.

«Within a few kilometers of Victoria are smaller, older craters that might tell us more about Mars's past,» Callas says.

Within this crater the Opportunity rover — just slightly too small to see here — is studying the landscape up close, finding evidence of ancient, salty waters on Mars.

«But the scales of lightning strikes are small and not likely to be confused for kilometer - size or larger impact cratering events.»

The researchers say this indicates an upper crust made of a mixture of rock and ice — in which small craters could be carved — supported by a more viscous mantle of ice lower down, which would allow the biggest impact basins to relax away with time, like silly putty returning to its original shape.

They found that the Orientale strike hollowed out a crater some 320 to 460 kilometers wide — smaller than any of the rings.

Multi-ringed craters are known on the Moon; the inner ring corresponds to the central peak in smaller craters, while the intermediate 210 - kilometre ring may be the edge of the original hole.

But the authors of this new piece think they've come up with the explanation, and that they've gone over this area and they've reconstructed a scenario in which it could have been the case that some sort of small meteor did come to ground and what may help make the determination here, is that they think they've identified what may be a crater after all.

Shock waves from that meteorite impact deformed the minerals that made up the rock beneath the crater, including small, tough crystals that contain trace amounts of radioactive uranium and lead.

Cerealia Facula, in the center of the crater, consists of bright material covering a 6 - mile - wide (10 - kilometer - wide) pit, within which sits a small dome.

Vinalia Faculae, the diffuse bright regions to the northeast of the crater's central dome, could have formed from a fluid driven to the surface by a small amount of gas, similar to champagne surging out of its bottle when the cork is removed.

An exception to this may have been if you used a lightweight and / or hollow object that did not sink at least halfway into the layer of flour — if this happened, a relatively smaller crater may have formed because the part of the object that hit the flour was smaller in diameter than the object's actual, widest diameter.

«If we can image missiles 15 000 miles away in distant skies and with the Hubble telescope can see craters on Mars, we should be able to develop better tools to image small tumours in women's breasts that are right in front of us,» says Susan Blumenthal, assistant surgeon general.

LRO's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), which can determine the height of a small patch of lunar soil to within 10 centimeters, has enabled scientists to compile a detailed topographical map of 5185 lunar craters, all more than 20 kilometers in diameter.

If that's an example of the kind of data available from probing the asteroid fragments in these heretofore hidden small craters, he adds, then they're well worth the search.

In 2000, for instance, Malin published pictures of small gullies that, judging from the absence of meteorite craters in them, seem to have been formed by running water within the past few million years.

Right now lot of people are using computational codes to simulate the event, but what I'd like to do is that actually do the whole scale event in small scale; and that way we'll understand why craters look like [they] it do on places like the Moon, Mercury and Mars and Venus; and what might happen to the Earth if we got hit by the next big one.

Most bodies in the solar system are pockmarked from rock impacts, and the rest of Pluto's surface has craters large and small, so Sputnik Planitia shouldn't have been spared.

Volatile ice occupies a few nearby deep craters, and in some areas the volatile ice is pocked with arrays of small sublimation pits.

Revealed in great detail in images taken in March 2017, this belt is cratered, with signs of a small landslide pulled downhill by the moon's gravity.

He is a leading researcher in planetary cratering and in the physical properties of the smaller bodies of the solar system (asteroids, comets, planetary satellites, the planet Mercury).

«In addition to the new impact craters and starburst debris patterns, we observed a surprising number of small surface changes which we call splotches,» Speyerer said.

The team found that only unusual cases involving two small, widely separated asteroids are guaranteed to form a pair of distinct craters.

While splotches lack the detectable rims that craters show, the team thinks the splotches are most likely caused by small impacts of material thrown from larger impacts.

Europa (which is 12 percent smaller than Earth's Moon) appears to have a sparsely cratered shell of water ice that may be only 30 to 50 million years old, and so some resurfacing process must be renewing its icy shell.

Reference: «New Evidence for Surface Water Ice in Small - Scale Cold Traps and in Three Large Craters at the North Polar Region of Mercury from the Mercury Laser Altimeter,» Ariel N. Deutsch, Gregory A. Neumann & James W. Head, 2017 Sept. 14, Geophysical Research Letters [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL074723/full].

To seek further evidence that such smaller - scale deposits exist, the researchers looked though the altimeter data in search of patches that were smaller than the big crater - based deposits, but still large enough to resolve with the altimeter.

The images, which show the cratered and pockmarked surface of the small icy world, were taken by the Cassini probe, which entered into orbit around the planet in 2004.

Washington, DC, 6 August 2012 — NASA's rover Curiosity, the size of a small car, touched down in a Martian crater early Monday.

Knowing that these small - scale deposits exist, and that they're likely the source of the slightly brighter surface outside craters, could dramatically increase the ice inventory on Mercury.