Sentences with phrase «small craters on»

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

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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.

The lending market for small businesses cratered during the recession and has been on a jagged path of recovery.

Spoon a small amount of icing in the crater and place a Ferrero Rocher on the top, using the icing as a «glue» to hold the chocolate in place

We then carry on to the waterfall Glanni and climb the small volcanic crater at Grábrók, arriving in Reykjavik by late afternoon.

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).

Within this crater the Opportunity rover — just slightly too small to see here — is studying the landscape up close, finding evidence of ancient, salty waters on Mars.

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.

«If we can image missiles 15 000 miles away in distant skies and with the Hubble telescope can see craters on Mars, we should be able to develop better tools to image small tumours in women's breasts that are right in front of us,» says Susan Blumenthal, assistant surgeon general.

Examining the fresh crater could provide data on how space weathering affects Mercury's heavily pockmarked surface — but this crater is too small to see from Earth, and the Hubble Space Telescope can't look at Mercury because it would have to point at the sun.

An unusually well - preserved 45 - meter - diameter crater provides ground truth for small - scale meteorite impacts on Earth.

Right now lot of people are using computational codes to simulate the event, but what I'd like to do is that actually do the whole scale event in small scale; and that way we'll understand why craters look like [they] it do on places like the Moon, Mercury and Mars and Venus; and what might happen to the Earth if we got hit by the next big one.

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.

On that day a small NASA rocket slammed into a 60 - mile - wide crater named Cabeus, a permanently shadowed dent very close to the lunar south pole.

«The assumption has been that surface ice on Mercury exists predominantly in large craters, but we show evidence for these smaller - scale deposits as well,» said Ariel Deutsch, the study's lead author and a Ph.D. candidate at Brown.

«Adding these small - scale deposits to the large deposits within craters adds significantly to the surface ice inventory on Mercury.»

Knowing that these small - scale deposits exist, and that they're likely the source of the slightly brighter surface outside craters, could dramatically increase the ice inventory on Mercury.

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.

For the lunar imagers out there, a real challenge is to see how many of Plato's cratelets you can capture on the floor of the crater, as many of them are smaller than 2 km across.

Some of this brighter material appears to have flowed further downslope to form the heart shape, as the small impact occurred on the ejecta blanket of a much larger impact crater.

In contrast, the smaller dark spots (which can appear as gray, brown, or red) may be the remains of low - speed, carbon - rich asteroids that splattered such» deposits» onto Vesta's surface, or they may be the result of higher - speed asteroid that melted and darkened volcanic basaltic crust on crater walls and floors, or on surrounding hills and ridges (NASA DAWN news release).

Visible on the small moon's unusually dark surface are many circular craters, long chains of craters, and strange streaks.

From Maui, embark on a small - group adventure to Molokini, a crescent - shaped volcanic crater located between the Hawaiian islands of Maui and Kahoʻolawe.

The crater - like composition forming the base layer of her smaller - scale canvas, Perfect Fifth, expressed in paler tones, calls to mind both the eye of a storm (in the style of Doppler weather radar) and an interstellar cloud of dust and gas on the verge of gravitational collapse.