Sentences with phrase «smaller craters all»

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

There are no small craters because small meteoroids burn up in the dense atmosphere before reaching the ground, and the bunching of craters suggest that large meteoroids usually break up before reach the surface.

James N. Head et al., «Martian Meteorite Launch: High - Speed Ejecta from Small Craters,» Science, Vol.

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.

Not exact matches

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

We were fascinated by these rocks and thrilled by our three - day trip in the crater, but it was not until we got home that we realized we had, in a small but not insignificant way, violated the landscape and the spirit of the Haleakala Crater.

I wait until small air bubbles rise to the surface and pop leaving tiny craters before I flip the pancake over.

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

That's potentially problematic, because planetary scientists use the number of small impact craters to estimate the age of the lunar surface.

The map also shows that some small impact craters up to 2,000 kilometers from Orientale have been filled in with plains material.

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

Some smaller impact craters appear filled in with the material, potentially reshaping our understanding of the moon's history.

What used to appear as Ceres's brightest blotch now appears to be two — a brighter, larger spot next to a smaller, dimmer one, both in the same crater.

Smaller subsequent impacts left craters within that crater.

For the next 6 years, smaller explosive eruptions built a rounded, rocky dome of hardened lava within the new crater.

The basin is surrounded by grooves and gashes, large enough to be seen with even small telescopes from Earth, created by rocks blasted out of the crater when it was formed.

Last November, prompted by fears that the epidemic might spill over into the nearby Ngorongoro Crater, where the small, inbred population of lions is vulnerable to new diseases, Cleaveland vaccinated dogs around the crater.

«Within a few kilometers of Victoria are smaller, older craters that might tell us more about Mars's past,» Callas says.

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.

«But the scales of lightning strikes are small and not likely to be confused for kilometer - size or larger impact cratering events.»

They found that the Orientale strike hollowed out a crater some 320 to 460 kilometers wide — smaller than any of the rings.

But the authors of this new piece think they've come up with the explanation, and that they've gone over this area and they've reconstructed a scenario in which it could have been the case that some sort of small meteor did come to ground and what may help make the determination here, is that they think they've identified what may be a crater after all.