Sentences with phrase «out of the impact crater»

The spherules, known as microtektites, are droplets of molten rock that were melted and thrown out of the impact crater by the energy of the projectile, or condensed from rock that was vaporized upon impact.

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Moreover, they add, five out of the six largest impact craters of the last 260 million years on earth correlate with mass extinction events.

The giant crater at the centre of the image, called Herschel, was probably gouged out by an enormous asteroid impact.

To help figure that out, Goudge and his colleagues took advantage of the fact that most of the sites are located within impact craters.

As five impact craters on Mercury receive names, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is about to create another, since it has run out of propellant and is predicted to impact on the surface of the planet at 8:26 pm BST today.

A section of the image, containing the «Face» and a couple of nearly impact craters and hills, was «cut» out of the full image and reproduced separately.

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.