Sentences with phrase «process of impact cratering»

The program honors pioneering planetary geologist Gene Shoemaker, who did so much to help us understand the process of impact cratering on the planets and the nature of the NEO population, and seeks to assist amateur observers, observers in developing countries, and under - funded professional observers contributing to vital NEO research.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists drilled into the dinosaur - killing Chicxulub impact crater to show that a similar process occurred on Earth.

Impact craters reveal one of the most spectacular geologic process known to human beings.

The hydrothermal conditions of the experiments, which also mimic early Earth settings (a proximity to volcanic activity and impact craters), released a complex mixture of oxygen - rich compounds, the probable result of oxidative processes that occurred in the parent body.

By drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased from other big craters on Earth.

Titan has few impact craters, meaning that its surface must be relatively young and some combination of processes erases evidence of impacts.

According to the authors of the study, who used geological observations made using the THEMIS instrument on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling of impact processes, large crater - forming impacts would have created tornado - like wind vortices that reached speeds of up to 500 miles per hour.

Extraterrestrial sample analysis and terrestrial field work on fundamental geological processes such as impact cratering, and their implications for the origin and evolution of life.