Sentences with phrase «relatively young crater»

The relatively young crater cluster in Baetica contains boulders up to 300 metres across - probably impact debris.

Almost 8 centuries later, a relatively young crater — dubbed Giordano Bruno, after the heretic who was burned at the stake in Rome for arguing that planets orbit other stars — was discovered on the far side of the moon by the Soviet spacecraft Lunik III.

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The dearth of impact craters, for example, suggeststhat Titan has a relatively young surface.

Using that method, Goudge and his colleagues showed that some pyroclastic deposits are found in relatively young (geologically speaking) craters dated to between 3.5 and 1 billion years old.

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

A remarkable lack of craters shows the surface to be relatively young.

Europa has few craters, suggesting that the surface is relatively young in geologic terms (40 to 90 million years old).

Both craters are relatively young, as indicated by their sharp rims.

This included zones that are bereft of craters (indicating the surface is relatively young), mountains that are likely as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters), and even haze above the dwarf planet's surface.

The densities and chemical compositions of the two rocky planets are also similar, and radar observations found that Venus has relatively few craters indicating a relatively young or quickly changing surface like Earth.