Sentences with phrase «young craters on»
Kupalo Crater, one of the youngest craters on Ceres, shows off many fascinating attributes at the high image resolution of 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.
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Brilliant streaks on the crater walls suggest that even the feeble gravity of this moon is strong enough to erode loose material; bluish regions near the crater rim may be younger exposed surfaces.
Almost 8 centuries later, a relatively young crater — dubbed Giordano Bruno, after the heretic who was burned at the stake in Rome for arguing that planets orbit other stars — was discovered on the far side of the moon by the Soviet spacecraft Lunik III.
«For reasons that we're not totally sure about, the same properties can arise from the scattering of rocky ejecta on the blocky terrain of young impact craters on the moon,» Campbell notes.
Studying the craters on the moon offers a window into that violent history of the young solar system that is not nearly as accessible on Earth.
«We detected borates in a crater on Mars that's 3.8 billion years old, younger than the likely formation of life on Earth,» said Gasda.
Dr. Chapman has been the Principal Investigator of many NASA and NSF grants and has been P.I. of research concerning the Late Heavy Bombardment of the Moon (and inner solar system), astronomical observations of very young asteroid families, analysis of NEAR Shoemaker images of Eros, studies of secondary cratering on Mars, and investigations of the cratering records of the Galilean satellites.
They continued to study the Galilean satellites Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, especially secondary / primary cratering of the exceptionally young terrain on Europa (their paper appeared in the 20 Oct. 2005 issue of Nature).
«The most striking thing about this image is, we have not yet found a single impact crater on this region,» Spencer said, adding that the smooth terrain suggests it is much younger than the 4.5 - billion - year - old solar system.
It is one of the youngest impact craters found on Earth.
On the way down you will explore the three younger craters and the most recent lava flows, all whilst admiring the breathtaking volcanic landscape!
Whether a crater of this size would be sufficient to promote Younger Dryas release I must leave to others; I am not an expert on the cryosphere.