Sentences with phrase «wide impact basin»

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Last year, the Messenger probe — the first mission to Mercury since the 1970s — returned crystal - clear views of the 960 - mile - wide Caloris impact basin, here seen in false color as yellow - orange.

The impact melted the surface that it hit and gouged out a 77 - kilometre - wide basin known as King crater.

VOLCANIC TERRAIN During a 2009 flyby, Messenger spotted Rachmaninoff, a 170 - mile - wide, double - ringed impact basin.

One enormous impact formed Pluto's photogenic «heart,» a basin 1,100 miles wide known as Tombaugh Regio.

The kind of asteroid needed to form the Martian dichotomy would fall in between that size and those of the rocks that formed other large craters, such as the South Pole — Aitken impact basin on the moon and the Hellas Basin in Mars's southern hemisphere, both more than 1,30 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide.

This view of 1,000 - mile - wide Caloris basin — among the largest known asteroid impacts in the solar system — shows how lava (orange) filled the blast site before new craters excavated the original basin (purple).

According to the researchers» analysis, these links between basin - wide indices and local impacts are stronger for some areas than for others, indicating that poorly understood local influences (for example, near shore hydrodynamics) should also be expected to have significant impacts.

The Rheasilvia impact obliterated half of an older 400 - kilometer - wide and 12 - km - deep impact basin, named Veneneia (one of the first Vestal Virgins.

It is, as yet, unsettled how this region relates to the basin - wide warming that is the AMO and the associated impacts on Atlantic hurricanes, and temperature and precipitation patterns around the circum - North Atlantic.

The decadal variations of the AMOC obtained in that way are shown to precede the observed decadal variations in basin - wide North Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST), known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) which strongly impacts societally important quantities such as Atlantic hurricane activity and Sahel rainfall.

This review seeks to objectively assess the available evidence of the impacts of climate change on glacier hydrology and the wider implications upon water resources within the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra basins.

They include joint impact and vulnerability assessment and the development of a basin - wide adaptation strategy.