Sentences with phrase «shallow crater»

Violent explosions created a shallow crater 11 kilometres in circumference, which now holds a lake.

The dormant Solfatara, which last erupted in 1198, has a shallow crater and emits steam with sulphurous fumes.

Opportunity rolled to a stop inside a shallow crater just 66 feet (20 meters) across, delighting scientists as the first pictures beamed back from the Red Planet.

After spending one year mapping Bennu's surface, OSIRIS - REx will drift down to a carefully chosen spot — within the lip of a shallow crater would make sense, since materials there are more shaded from the sun's destructive radiation.

That suggests the shallow crater had been filled with an estimated 15,000 square kilometres of lava.

Beneath, nestled in a shallow crater in the concrete floor, were...

Pure calcite crystals shatter easily, but the oyster shell is organised in thin layers that shift orientation when stressed, confining damage to shallow craters and stopping fractures spreading (Nature Materials, DOI: 10.1038 / nmat3920).

The appearance of a few shallow craters suggests that there could be variations in ice and rock content in the subsurface.

Not exact matches

That may not seem surprising, but the team did note one shocker: Craters left by high - speed drops started out with relatively steep sides but within seconds they avalanched to form slopes with a more stable configuration — a previously unstudied process that widened the crater and made it shallower (image above, where depth is exaggerated by a factor of three).

On our home turf, craters that form in shallow seas or wetlands hardly make an imprint in the soggy ground and are quickly subsumed.

Now, more than a Mercury year (88 Earth days) later, Messenger's high - resolution camera has shown that the bright patches are shallow, irregularly shaped pits within the craters.

Study of the images indicated that the crater was probably the result of a shallow impact with a comet or asteroid, at an angle of approximately 45 degrees.

For a two tank shallow reef dive, it is perfect as the compliment to Koko Craters or Angler's Reef.

Also, most of the methane is in the deep gas deposits, not in the possible regional layer of shallow methane hydrate possibly associated with the Yamal crater.