Sentences with phrase «surrounding crater»

What are the details of the tragic, romantic legends surrounding the crater?

In January 2015, Opportunity took pictures from a «high point» on the rim of Endeavour, about 440 feet (134 feet) above the surrounding crater floor.

Exactly how it formed and why it's taller than the surrounding crater (as illustrated from elevation data) remains a mystery.

There are many restaurant built surround the crater especially for lunch time.

Not exact matches

Lighter - toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica — called «halos» — has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed.

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.

MESSENGER's maps of polar craters match up nicely with earlier imagery of the poles, taken by Earth - based radars, which showed anomalously bright features — patches that reflected radio waves much better than the surrounding terrain, just as ice does.

The best Mars scientists can do is estimate the age of the surrounding surface based on counting craters.

It is surrounded by a mile - high rampart of material that was ejected from the crater — enough rock to bury the continental United States under a two - mile - deep layer.

Background Craters are round, bowl - shaped depressions surrounded by a ring.

Only after the crater walls eventually collapsed did the study show replenishment of nutrients from the surrounding sea.

Although many craters have a mountain in the center, Urvara has a prominent double peak surrounded by rough terrain and linear parallel grooves.

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.

When the team examined the new craters found by the LROC survey, they noticed that the craters were surrounded by starburst patterns that obviously formed during the impact.

Plato is my next favourite crater because of it's super smooth floor that makes it standout so much from the surrounding terrain.

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.

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).

Gale crater, where the Curiosity rover landed in 2012, features extensive dune fields around the base of Mount Sharp, and the rover is now approaching some of them for the first time; their dark color makes them stand out starkly against the surrounding terrain.

The gravity anomaly of the Lake Tüttensee crater (Fig. 8) is remarkable because of the ring - shaped zone of relatively positive anomalies surrounding the central negative anomaly.

At the same time, surrounding plains of ice were remarkably crater - free — suggesting that another process had paved them over.»

Curiosity noticed lighter colored rock surrounding fractures in the crater which scientists recognized as a tell - tale sign of groundwater.

Those rocks, decelerating less than the surrounding ice as the comet passes through Mars» thin atmosphere, strike the ground an instant earlier than the ice and create the crater.

As for why this crater is elongated, the researchers found the answer in the surrounding blanket of material (called the ejecta blanket).

As the vast crater blooms into a lush canyon surrounded by desert, its dozen - some inhabitants enjoy cheerful lives of digging up stones and unsuccessfully hunting rabbits.

Hanauma Bay ($ 1 for car parking; $ 7 for admission) is famous for snorkeling, Manoa Falls is a 100 - foot - tall waterfall surrounded by a lush rainforest, and of course, there's Diamond Head crater which will give you the best views of Honolulu for free.

The surrounding Mabi rainforest, volcanic crater lakes and abundance of wildlife and birds will give you plenty to do while staying at Atherton Blue Gum Bed and Breakfast and the B&B is only 1.7 km from the heart of the quaint Atherton Township.

Boasting lush landscapes that surround dormant volcanoes, exotic flora and beautiful crater lakes, and surrounded by clean waters, São Miguel is the perfect vacation destination for those looking for an off - the beaten path European destination.

I had imagined a scorching heat emanating from a wildly bubbling crater and a 360 - degree view of Lengai's surrounds, but we had climbed throughout the night to find a summit clouded by fog.

Hike down into a dormant volcano and relax on the beach surrounded by stunning views of the crater lake and mountainous ridge.

Climb to the top of Laki volcano, taking in the incredible crater landscape surrounding it.

Travel by boat on the deep - blue volcanic crater lake surrounded by three picture perfect volcanoes while turing the colorful Maya villages resting on its shores... Read full itinerary -

You can hike the mountains surrounding The beautiful Vredefort Dome, the world's largest and oldest (2.02 billion years ago) visible blast crater - or rock climb these heights to view San rock art.

Several animals are unique to Craters of the Moon and the surrounding area.

The PVMBG further called on people living in the areas surrounding the mountain and visitors to avoid any activity, including hiking and camping, near the crater of Mt. Agung, and all areas within a 6 kilometer radius of its peak.

From the air, Wilpena Pound looks like a crater, a massive bowl almost 100 kilometres (62 miles) wide that stands above the surrounding plains.

Today the volcano is still considered active but there have been no visible eruptions however it is still very much alive with gas coming out of the crater and the temperature of the surrounding hot springs remaining just as hot as years back.

Located in the province of Guanacaste, Rincon de la Vieja Volcano is surrounded by nine adjoining craters that lie within the Rincon de la Vieja National Park.

Lake Botos is in the south and is an inactive crater surrounded by the cloud forest that defines the landscape of the Poas Volcano National Park.

Other available activities in the area include massage, yoga, surf trips by boat or taxi, surf lessons, fishing, horseback riding, snorkeling, kayaking, SUPing, hiking, bike rental, moped rentals, moto rentals, catamaran tours, transportation and / or day trips to get a taste of culture in the surrounding cities or to go visit volcanoes, crater lakes and other natural attractions throughout southern Nicaragua.

Includes two full - day island visits to North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor or Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater.

Days 9 & 10 Includes two full - day island visits to North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor or Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater.

Day 6 Full - day island visit to either North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor, Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater or Santa Fe, one of the oldest islands of the archipelago.

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Other crater lakes are situated much closer to the surrounding ground level, set inside ancient, dead volcanic crater beds.

These types of crater lakes range in size from huge to tiny and are often surrounded by dense forest or vegetation that covers the inner crater walls down to the lake shore.

In its place is Dusty Divot, a huge crater surrounded by glowing «hop rocks», which place players in a low gravity orbit.

Echoes of the surrounding landscape resonate in Clark's photographs of spaces within the walls of the base, finding visual rhymes in the craters formed by construction work, peaks of refuse - strewn razor wire and the precisely ordered vistas of military tents.

The crater's structure and surrounding ejecta was indicative of an explosive outburst.

When the smoke cleared, the methane eruption craters were plainly visible — a rim of sloped and ejected earth surrounding a black, gun - barrel like structure tunneling deep into the ground.

Just one of these craters (shown above) hosted about 20 smaller «baby craters» surrounding it.