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.
Not exact matches
Add to a blender and blend
on low,
scarping down the sides.
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).
It is the longest such
scarp to be discovered
on Mercury.
Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy
scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown
on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered
scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).
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.
Researchers who located and studied the
scarp sites with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera
on MRO reported the findings today in the journal Science.
In order to determine how Mercury may have shrunk, the researchers studied tectonic features, called lobate
scarps, and wrinkle ridges
on the planet, which result from interior cooling and surface compression.
On a normal day, the hotel provides a complimentary dog walk, dog dining table, plush dog bed, gourmet treats from
Scarps Dog Bakery and maps of dog - friendly places in Seattle.
Although
scarping slight feel a bit stagnant, that's really the only blemish
on what may be one of the last, great PlayStation 3 titles.