Sentences with phrase «small craters»

From the number of small craters on its surface, we can estimate that Gaspra is about 200 million years old.

This image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft presents two small craters on Ceres, located in the vicinity of Toharu Crater.

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).

The large impact that formed the crater likely involved a lot of heat, explaining the relatively smooth crater floor punctuated by smaller craters.

An exception to this may have been if you used a lightweight and / or hollow object that did not sink at least halfway into the layer of flour — if this happened, a relatively smaller crater may have formed because the part of the object that hit the flour was smaller in diameter than the object's actual, widest diameter.

If small craters have been erased by an impact half a moon away, that could mean some of the surface is older than it looks, potentially changing scientists» interpretations of the moon's history (SN: 6/11/16, p. 10).

The study looked at smaller craters within the larger SPA basin made by impacts that happened millions of years after the giant impact that formed the basin.

But the radar hotspots also line smaller craters and those at lower latitudes that would have less ice - friendly temperatures across the crater floor.

The researchers say this indicates an upper crust made of a mixture of rock and ice — in which small craters could be carved — supported by a more viscous mantle of ice lower down, which would allow the biggest impact basins to relax away with time, like silly putty returning to its original shape.

Another paper finds that, though Ceres is scarred by many small craters, it tends to lack big impact basins.

If that's an example of the kind of data available from probing the asteroid fragments in these heretofore hidden small craters, he adds, then they're well worth the search.

Secondary craters form when big chunks of rock blasted into the air during a large impact fall back to the surface, leaving a smattering of small craters surrounding the main crater.

This image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a field of small craters next to Kokopelli Crater, seen at bottom right in this image, on dwarf planet Ceres.

As far as the rest of the map goes, some different areas — including Tilted Towers — have been hit by the meteors, so expect to see leveled buildings and smaller craters all around.

David Allan Peters layers countless sheathes of solid colors which he then carves into, leaving small craters that bring into view the stratified sub-surfaces.

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:...

Close view of polygons, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program Arrow point to boulders that sit inside of small craters.

If the MOAB were to detonate on contact with the ground, a lot of that pressure wave would be sent into the dirt, digging out a small crater around the bomb.

I tested the damn thing 11 times (because I'm fucking crazy I refused to share a recipe for a cake with a small crater in the middle)(I have serious OCD about properly leavening things) so that's a matter of fact.

If the injury is bad enough that small craters of exposed bone are formed, it can potentially mean the end of one's athletic career.

As the plume raced outward from the larger impact, it encountered the small crater rim, leaving bright twin streaks on the downwind side.

We may make a big crater; we may make a small crater.

There are currently 176 known craters on Earth's surface, of which only 15 are less than 300 meters wide — but all of these small craters have rapidly eroded and lost most of their original features.

Multi-ringed craters are known on the Moon; the inner ring corresponds to the central peak in smaller craters, while the intermediate 210 - kilometre ring may be the edge of the original hole.

They triangulated on its position and, last week on New Year's Eve, dug up the 1.7 kilogram rock from a small crater in a dry lake in the Australian outback.

There are craters with flow - like features, and craters that imprint on other craters, as well as chains of small craters.

Then they shape the flayed body into a rough ball, and scratch out a small crater on the top.

The smallest craters should have been made by the smallest object, and the largest craters should have been made by the largest object.

Did the smallest objects make the smallest craters and the largest ones make the largest craters?

Having been created relatively recently in solar system history, this impact basin has accumulated fewer of the smaller craters that roughen the surface to the north (top of image and in this video).

In the case of smaller craters, on the other hand, the scientists found the current list to be far from complete: Around 90 craters with a diameter of one to six kilometers and a further 250 with a diameter of 250 to 1000 meters are still awaiting discovery.

In a statement, the European Space Agency (ESA) said this could be a small crater from the lander's impact at more than 300 kilometers per hour, having fallen from an altitude of between 2 and 4 kilometers after its thrusters cut out too early.

Charon's near - infrared spectra reveal highly localized areas with strong ammonia absorption tied to small craters with relatively fresh - appearing impact ejecta.

The smaller crater covers roughly the distance from Los Angeles to Monterey, Calif.; the larger one would stretch from L.A. to San Francisco.

This close - up view of Hakumyi crater, as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, provides insight into the origin of the small crater and lobe - shaped flow next to its southern rim.

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft highlights Axomama Crater, the small crater shown to the right of center; its sharp edges indicate recent emplacement by a small impact.

The impact is thought to have occurred between 2008 and 2014, but NASA's High - Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera revealed in 2016 that two large impact craters were surrounded by up to 30 smaller craters.

Notice that it's only the larger craters that have bulbous floors; the smaller the crater, the more ordinary it appears.

Yes, the dent in my desk is now the size of a small crater.

The rock used for the pukao is red scoria rock that came out of a quarry built inside the small crater of an extinct volcano here at Puna Pau.

Case in point: there was once a small crater at Tilted Towers, but with the new 4.2 patch, it's been filled in.

In addition, there is a smaller crater at Tilted Towers, which despite the predictions of many players were not completely obliterating by the comet.

A number of small craters can be found in various cities and locations throughout the Season 4 map, such as Tilted Towers.

Dashing through the air and then smacking a demon into a wall by using a heavy attack is a satisfying and refreshing feeling; the controller shakes with the sheer impact Raikoh hits a demon with, and shakes again when the demon creates a small crater in the ground.