These craters formed as tiny pieces of
space dust crashed into the moon
Not exact matches
«Why
space dust emits radio waves upon
crashing into a spacecraft: A new simulation provides the first mechanism to explain why plasma from hypervelocity impacts generates electromagnetic radiation.»
Each Perseid meteor is part of a swarm of sand - grain - size bits of
space dust that create a white - hot trail of incandescent gas when they
crash into Earth's atmosphere, about 50 to 100 miles up.
Earth's life - sustaining liquid came from the
dust from which the planet was born, a new look at these particles suggests, and not simply from collisions with objects that later
crashed into the planet from
space.