By age-dating the moon's craters, we can age-date craters elsewhere.
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She also discovered that older craters are covered by fewer boulders and rocks than younger craters.
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Scientists have found hundreds of craters Scientists have found more than 500 impact craters on the planet, Tamppari said.
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By studying these craters, they can learn about the impact cratering process, statistics of small craters and the frequency of impacts.
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These craters have the shape of straight lines, which is unique because on Earth and other planets craters are almost always circular.
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The craters ranged from 984 feet to 3,280 feet wide, though hundreds of smaller craters are also scattered across the study area.
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These craters were more well defined and looked much fresher, which suggests that the craters and the ice are younger, the researchers said.
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The common belief among scientists is that many of Earth's craters have been wiped away by geological processes, but by comparing the lunar craters to terrestrial ones, Mazrouei and her colleagues showed that, for very large craters—those bigger than 2180 km (2300 miles) in diameter and younger than 2300 million years—a complete record of terrestrial impact craters does in fact exist.
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In addition, craters might not look like craters because of the low density of Ultima Thule and the slow speed of collisions in the Kuiper belt.
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Ghent studied 111 lunar craters measuring over 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in diameter with LRO, and found that some craters radiate more heat during lunar night than others.
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There are impact "craters" a few feet across—barely larger than the objects that made them—and impact craters a few thousand feet across, but nothing in between.
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Older, large craters will contain smaller craters on the inside, leaving clues for scientists to determine how many impacts have occurred since the larger hit that created the initial crater.
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"It was obvious that the Earth had been impacted—there were other visible craters like the Meteor Crater in Arizona and you could see impact craters on the Moon," Fast told Gizmodo.
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Craters are good age indicators and the lack of impact craters on a planetary surface indicates to scientists that some sort of geologic process is taking place to fill in the crater.
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According to the computer simulations, Ceres should have at least 40 craters that are larger than 62 miles wide, and somewhere between 10 and 15 craters that are larger than 250 miles across.
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A photo of Pluto's 'halo' craters spotted by New Horizons.
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New Horizons researchers anticipated a monotonous world battered by craters.
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The meteorite strikes continued, some excavating craters 1,4.33 kilometers across.
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The largest craters are about (30 miles) 50 km across.
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Days later it crashed, leaving huge craters across the island.
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There are craters on other planets, like Mercury, for example.
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Two apparent impact craters are near one of the hangars.
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Airline service craters while four carriers dominate all the routes.
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We used this relationship to get ages for lunar craters.
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Also intriguing is the lack of craters around Wright Mons.
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The bright spots almost all lie in or near craters.
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The featured craters are Atlas, Franklin, Messala, Geminus, and Cleomedes.
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These are the objects that leave craters in the ground.
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The fires from the Impact still smoldered in their craters.
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Often they are barren craters, worn and ruined beyond remembering.
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The craters of those asteroids are called Lockne and Målingen.
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Another method used to date some craters is more imprecise.
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What they found was that there were fewer older craters.
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You can make out Mars's great basins, valleys, and craters.
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The destruction of craters by erosion, he said, creates a sedimentary record of shocked minerals (meaning minerals deformed by intense heat and pressure), which scientists have documented at Vredefort and Sudbury, the largest Precambrian craters.
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Geologists now count about 190 craters scattered across continents and seafloors.
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A view of craters and a group of mountains on Charon.
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We can also see many sunken regions that look like craters.
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He is watching Hillary Clinton, too, in case her campaign craters.
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Eg Nix craters have no informal names, now can be named.
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Dozens of craters have carved out large chunks of the Earth.
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It turns out the craters are newer than we originally thought.
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The road from the capital to Hodeida is pockmarked with craters.
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As it tries to push upwards and escape, it makes craters.
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Images of blast sites show craters several meters wide and deep.
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Huge sandy craters, mounds of pebbles and poisoned waterways were everywhere.
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But still it has small craters and a lot of boulders.
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And larger strikes have created more visible features, including giant craters.
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Ditches dug to repair underground pipes looked like bombed-out craters.
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At the southern pole, the ice can be found in craters.
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In other places, the melting permafrost is creating craters and sinkholes.
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Indeed, with the method they used to date the lunar craters, the scientists found a lower rate of impacts on our planet before 300 million years ago, and almost no craters older than 650 million years.
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The upper image – in black and white – sports several dozen "haloed" craters.
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Impact craters expose the subsurface materials on the steep slopes of Mars.
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Impact craters expose the subsurface materials on the steep slopes of Mars.
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Most Martian craters, even in cooler regions, don't remain full year-round.
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We all know that car bombs leave behind craters in the ground.
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It seems that the material has flowed into some channels and craters.
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It's in the permanently shadowed craters on the poles of the moon.
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Fifteen of the craters had fan shapes that looked like river deltas.
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"We can't think of these craters as icy dead spots," Farrell said.
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Its surface is littered with craters and boulders that threaten safe landings.
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That gas expanded quickly and blew up, creating craters in Titan's surface.
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Scientists who study ancient impact craters on Earth have a problem: erosion.
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There are no bomb craters, casualty report, or even a visible battlefield.
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The hummocks and dells are piles of debris, barricades, craters and trenches.
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But only 190 of them left behind impact craters scientists could identify.
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Iranian missiles caused massive craters when they hit al-Asad air base.
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All those craters take the shine off your hair—oh, it's disgusting.
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The biggest can strike the ground, some forcefully enough to dig craters.
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Now Assad bombards us with explosive barrels and their craters become pools.
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"After all, smaller rocks take less energy to break up—and this could explain the lack of boulders around craters before 300 million years ago, which the authors interpret as meaning that these craters are much older," said Melosh.
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Back during the Hadean, asteroids regularly produced craters thousands of kilometers in diameter.
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However, the team has not seen any craters in the tiny world yet.
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Scientists want to understand how the ice deposits initially formed in the craters.
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If WeWork craters, that second vision could fall far short of its aspirations.
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This blue hue has been associated with craters much younger than previously thought.
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Instead, they only spotted two craters that don't match up with the mark.
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The topography of Ceres, with numerous deep craters but no particularly big ones.
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That means something has been eating away at Ceres' big craters over time.
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A huge part of the "archive" of the lunar crust is its craters.
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These rivers flowed into craters, and created deltas in now dried-up lakes.
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We are used to looking at impact craters all over the solar system.
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We are used to looking at impact craters all over the solar system.
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Craters from bomb blasts and artillery strikes are obstacles around which vehicles swerve.
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Some streets are pockmarked with more craters than a World War I battlefield.
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A section of the new 24-degree panorama, revealing a bunch of craters.
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The crash left craters of anguish and grief in New York and Florida.
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Craters left by airstrikes scar the streets, and some buildings have been flattened.
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The scars are ancient impact craters that were created 4 billion years ago.
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Sunlight doesn't reach the bottom of the craters there, which contain water ice.
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I finally realized why all those bomb craters hadn't made that much difference.
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Whether California's trash craters will persist over the long-term is also unclear.
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Craters, debris and rubble was visible, but the main runway looked largely intact.
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When the researchers analyzed the locations of the impact craters, they were surprised.
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"Cavosie said recent discoveries of post-Paleozoic impact craters with diameters greater than 10 kilometers, including Yallalie crater in Australia and Pantasma crater in Nicaragua, "appear consistent with their model," adding that "future discoveries of older large craters would question it.
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The floors and terrain between craters show signs of water ice, colored in blue.
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The moon is impacted by material from space all the time, leaving craters behind.
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In craters, the crust is thin, and the mantle is closer to the surface.
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Future missions could take a closer look at these craters and determine more details.
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We also stayed in kibbutz on craters and went for hikes in the desert.
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The giveaway is the shape of the craters, which are often fractured into polygons.
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It captures the awed reactions of passersby looking at the Moon and its craters.
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The hydrate mounds quickly collapsed, creating craters and spewing methane into the water column.
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The MRO has also treated scientists to views of relatively fresh craters on Mars.
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Discovering fresh impact craters on Mars is nothing new for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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We have these little scenic rovers that have climbed mountains and descended into craters.
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He also cited findings of water trapped in the Moon's permanently shaded polar craters.
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Mars isn't short of interesting craters, but Hale Crater has a lot going on.
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Some of the craters in this region never see sunlight because of the angle.
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Today, these craters are still seeping methane, which is a concern to climate researchers.
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Speaking to Gizmodo, Andreassen said methane blowouts are the best explanation for the craters.
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Visitors in the lava field at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho.
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In 2004, Spain quietly fenced off the most contaminated land near the bomb craters.
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An underground nuclear test is conducted, and the land above craters only much later.
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Mounds were first observed in Martian craters during NASA's Viking program in the 1970s.
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This left behind a pockmarked landscape of hundreds of roughly 800-foot-wide craters.
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On the surface, two rovers sent by NASA are exploring Mars's dunes and craters.
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They studied impact craters on Earth and the age of the rocks around them.
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This means that the impact craters found in the same area are also intact.
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Why are there no craters on its moon Enceladus or the Jovian moon Europa?
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Half a dozen craters and collapsed cones loom over the terrain like broken teeth.
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The bumps and craters on its pale surface resemble the surface of the moon.
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The area seems to be plagued by craters, or sinkholes — it's hard to say.
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American Airlines on Tuesday, for instance, slashed international and domestic flights as demand craters.
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Four islands were entirely vaporized; only deep blue radioactive craters in the ocean remained.
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But no one knows the precise impact rate, and counting craters is not straightforward.
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From the landing base, they completed three excursions to nearby craters and the Taurus mountains.
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This conclusion was reached by studying the history of impact craters on the lunar surface.
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It's estimated that around 3 percent of all impact craters on Earth are these doublets.
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Roughly the size of Paris, it's now among the 25 biggest asteroid craters on Earth.
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Brown recluse bites don't bump up — in fact, they sometimes create craters in the skin.
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The moon's south pole is of particular interest because of ice deposits in craters there.
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Many of the large craters were created about 3.1 billion years ago, or possibly older.
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You can also make out the circular rims of impact craters buried by the lava.
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An even more intriguing hypothesis is that large craters have been erased by ice volcanoes.
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And scientists have been able to use the Apollo samples to accurately date those craters.
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An enhanced-color image of Mercury, highlighting the carbon-rich material associated with impact craters.
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Make a thick batter, with a baker's percentage of 100, and you'll get weird craters.
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Some of the craters had valleys that appeared to be formed by erosion from water.
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Mission scientists are also looking at various hills, craters, and pits seen on the TNO.
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The result was a series of explosive methane blowouts that littered the seafloor with craters.
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The bombardment caused major destruction in the camp, including fires and deep craters, Gobadi added.
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Princen's large-format photographs of volcanoes are updates to Junghuhn's lithographs of the same craters.
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I hope that No Man's Sky moves me with its colors and craters and creatures.
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Yes, pits, as distinct from craters, which are essentially surface features caused by meteorite impacts.
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Aerial bombardment also dug craters into main streets to prevent militants from slipping between neighborhoods.
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More than 100 Afghan forces were killed, and the city was littered with bomb craters.
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On Saturday, large bombs left craters in roads, destroyed buildings and buried residents in rubble.
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He found three more small craters with tektites in them, which he sectioned and photographed.
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Craters on those planets come from electrical arcs, like lightning bolts, that sear the surfaces.
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When Earth rose, a robot would have kept on clicking off pictures of the craters.
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They peered into dark craters using traces of sunlight that had bounced off crater walls.
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Many are struggling to cope with how to move forward as the hospitality industry craters.
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That's true of other craters researchers have tried to identify across Africa and Australia before.
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Then, for several long minutes, the jungle disappeared, replaced by an expanse of giant craters.
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Do you think there will be international interest in naming stars, planets, craters or asteroids?
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The missiles' craters were quickly filled, and the blood-splattered room will be repainted soon.
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Scientists have not spotted any craters yet, but that does not mean there are none.
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Hundreds of smaller craters measuring less than 300 meters wide were also observed, and the researchers identified more than 600 methane flares in-and-around the craters that are still spewing the gas, though at rates far lower than what transpired during the explosive phase.
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Irwin: You know, Joe, these small fresh craters that we've commented on, whatever caused them must create [...] or indurate the soil into the rocks (that is) creates its own rocks (regolith breccia), because there's just a concentration of rocks around the very fresh ones (craters).
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Craters with bright material on dwarf planet Ceres shine in new images from NASA's Dawn mission.
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It's bulging at the equator, and craters are clearly visible, as are chunks of large rocks.
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In some craters, the ice is patchy because it's been hit by other debris over time.
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That's because the Moon isn't a symmetrical sphere, but is covered in mountains, craters, and valleys.
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At resolution of approximately 787 feet (240 meters) per pixel, Pandora's scars and craters come alive.
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Many of the craters in this region contain dune fields, along with dark deposits surrounding them.
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These maps not only include mountains, chasms, and craters galore, but over 130 gleaming bright spots.
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And seven massive craters with diameters as wide as one kilometre have opened up in Siberia.
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The moon, Mars and many of the "airless" moons around the neighborhood are littered with craters.
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And it just so happens that young craters on the Moon are surrounded by large rocks.
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Over the past couple of years, sudden craters have been exploding from the permafrost-laden ground.
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What they discovered is that the earliest craters on the Earth aren't missing -- they don't exist.
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The landscape has rotted into a moonscape of grays, gashed by trenches and pockmarked by craters.
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"The Via Crucis of the craters," wept the Rome-based daily Il Messaggero in November 2014.
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Many roads were riddled by deep craters, which U.S. warplanes had created to impede suicide cars.
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Meanwhile, the terrain around the craters is bathed in near constant sunlight, ideal for solar power.
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On Earth and other rocky worlds, volcanoes have washed away these craters over billions of years.
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A dark grey ash plume from one of the new craters is becoming a more common feature.
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Wednesday's eruption was short but explosive, with bubbling lava filling one of the craters the whole day.
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One reason for the lack of large craters could be related to the activity of subsurface ice.
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A man stands amid rocket craters and destroyed buildings in central Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, on Wednesday, Feb.
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The damage assessment found nine damaged buildings, nine possibly damaged ones, and three craters in the village.
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Scientists suspect that preexisting stress patterns and faults lie underneath these craters, giving them their linear shape.
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Most surprising of all was the relative lack of craters, suggesting that Pluto's surface is regularly renewed.
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The subsidence craters that scar the soil mimic crop circles but are the result of underground blasts.
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From dazzling craters to afternoon haze, Ceres is revealing an alien beauty we never could have imagined.
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So, astronomers announced this month that they'd used AI to find 6,000 new craters on the Moon.
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Researchers have also proposed, based on observations, that some of the Moon's craters emit radioactive radon gas.
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These may help spread ice on to the surface of Ceres, slightly covering up older impact craters.
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Godof infinite sets, god of the craters not visible to the nakedeye: nothing prepared me for this.
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They dashed for the border, speeding up to avoid shelling and gunfire, slowing to avoid bomb craters.
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Craters on the Moon larger than 3003 kilometers (6 miles) and younger than 1 billion years old.
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Instead, the paucity of Precambrian craters is coincident with major episodes of globally extensive "Snowball Earth" glaciation.
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The Moon hangs above us like a dusty old rock, devoid of life, pock-marked by craters.
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And compared to other planets in the solar system, Earth has fewer older impact craters than expected.
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Mr. Abe could even be forced to resign if the Olympics are canceled or Japan's economy craters.
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The ice — very muddy, mixed with lunar dust — is inside craters near the north and south poles.
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It has a light scattering of small craters, likely caused by small, rapid collisions with other objects.
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In those cases, they dated material created by the asteroid strikes, but couldn't find the impact craters.
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Craters the size of golf balls pockmark the marble facade of the former J.P. Morgan & Company headquarters.
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There are other craters on Mars with central peaks, raised by the impact that formed the crater.
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Take Indigenous astronomy: Did you know that Aboriginal people knew that meteorites form craters before Europeans did?
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The probe is expected to land between the Manzinus C and Simpelius N craters, according to ISRO.
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Nearly all of the small craters contained objects, including rocks, bits of kelp, and a whale skull.
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Like this trip to Craters of the Moon National Monument, and visit to the Idaho National Laboratory.
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She and her colleagues calibrated the technique using the known ages of craters from the Apollo data.
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The hills, the craters, the valleys: every detail would be recreated faithfully from maps of the moon.
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The room setup reflects the Pearl River Delta seen in Zhou's camera — abandoned industrial waste, manmade craters.
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Almost centered in the photo is the Cassini crater,which contains two small craters known as Cassini A and Cassini B. The little craters are only 25 miles (15 km) and 6 miles (9 km) wide, while the diameter of the larger crater is about 35 miles (57 km).
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However, there are not that many craters on the Earth of any age—about 180 confirmed craters at the present time—and the area of rocks that are older than 300 million years is relatively small, so they are dealing with statistics of small numbers—a notoriously uncertain procedure.
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At first, scientists suspected the glittering craters were filled with water ice; oozing, perhaps, from a subterranean ocean.
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To Bland, the mystery of Ceres' missing craters underscores the importance of designing missions to visit multiple targets.
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Inspired by that discovery, a team led by NASA glaciologist Joseph MacGregor started scanning Greenland for other craters.
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It's worth noting viscous relaxation probably impacts other parts of Ceres' topography, including erasing the dwarf planet's craters.
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Have you ever wondered why your pancakes sometimes have ugly craters, or a weird ring around their edges?
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A second image of bomb damage craters at the airbase was also shown to reporters at the Pentagon.
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The finding was made using a novel technique that reconstructed Earth's impact history by examining the Moon's craters.
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The JAXA team hopes this will allow them to observe how craters form in general on the asteroid.
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Temperatures dip to negative 388 degrees Fahrenheit in these craters, according to measurements from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Though scientists aren't exactly sure the root cause of the craters' disappearance, they may get answers soon enough.
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These craters each contain a central peak thrown up because of asteroids striking the lunar surface eons ago.
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The size of the ordnance was determined in part by reviewing photographs of bomb craters, the group said.
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The moon has two craters more than 600 miles across that were created during the Late Heavy Bombardment.
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He said the theory may also explain how large craters found on the moon, Mercury and Venus formed.
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New research published today in Science suggests the Moon, with its extensive collection of impact craters, can help.
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Now the road stretched out, empty and endless, over a glaciated, monochrome terrain of ridges, gorges and craters.
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Photos showed ash covering a large area of the mountainside below the three large craters at its peak.
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NASA is aiming to explore craters near the moon's South Pole where water ice is believed to exist.
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They left big craters in the wood floor but not a chip in their enamel could be seen.
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The surface of the moon may soon be dotted with corporate logos, and its craters labeled with slogans.
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Approaching by plane, three distinct volcano craters emerge on a triangle of green grass fringed by black coastline.
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But the inexorable movement of Earth's tectonic plates and surface erosion have erased most of the oldest craters.
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Craters, some large enough to swallow a tanker truck, mark the spots where 500-pound bombs made landfall.
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Eastern edge of development even has prominent craters (yellow areas) Seems at best ignorant & at worst negligent. pic.twitter.
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The craters' bright walls and rims stand out from their dark floors and surrounding terrain, creating the halo effect.
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The ponds turn out to be craters caused by the detonation of massive mines during the first World War.
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Ceres, Mercury, and the Moon all tilt slightly in relation to the Sun, leaving some craters in permanent shadow.
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It's in the permanently shadowed craters on the poles of the Moon, and water is an incredibly valuable resource.
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To celebrate the Lunar anniversary, he's created some special works of lunar craters, which he's 3D printed and painted.
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"It will allow us to look at very fine details on the surface and see smaller craters," says Zangari.
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It's a magnet for unshaven backpacker types taking a break from hiking the route around Ecuador's volcanoes and craters.
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He then identified distinctive features in each of the anaglyphs—craters, canyons, mountains–and matched them between image pairs.
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Ceres is also covered in dark spots, craters that—because of their position—never see the light of day.
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The craters in the poles are thought to be potentially rich in ice because they are permanently in shadow.
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These polar regions, which feature shadowed areas and permanently dark craters, likely contain water ice and other frozen materials.
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This is how Earth learned of one of the largest impact craters on any body in the solar system.
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HS is a case of severe inflammation of the sweat glands, causing drippy craters to form beneath the skin.
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The Moon is estimated to have hundreds of thousands of craters, mostly caused by impacts with asteroids and meteors.
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What the researchers saw in the wind tunnel looked like the Martian mounds and craters, according to the study.
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It's an environment of extremes, full of craters, incredibly cold temperatures, and areas of full sunlight or complete darkness.
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Several hundred craters were documented in the area, of which around one hundred were up to one kilometer wide.
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They watched as the virus torpedoed through the stained cells, hollowing out clear craters on the plate's purple surface.
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This month's batch contains more than 1,000 photos of Mars' dunes, craters, mountains, ice caps, and other surface features.
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But the moon has no atmosphere at all to absorb sunlight, and outside of craters, there is no shade.
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This little rocky body does have a history of volcanism, though, and even has water ice in its craters.
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Now that the meteor has crashed, it has left craters scattered across the island, transforming the game's iconic map.
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For forty years, astronomers have puzzled over the miles-high mounds rising from of the centers of Martian craters.
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It has at least five different craters that spew ash and lava in myriad directions, and countless smaller vents.
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As the Dead Sea, it leaves behind salt deposits that can collapse into sinkholes, forming craters in the ground.
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We drove northeast and climbed the Tablelands, a desaturated Martian landscape with mountain peaks inverted into snow-filled craters.
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To date the lunar craters, Mazrouei's team used thermal data and images collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
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After about two years, when we started comparing lunar craters to terrestrial ones, we saw some very interesting results.
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Its craters provided a road map of impacts on the ancient surface, suggesting that large planets crashed into it.
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Geologists suspect that massive sinkholes and craters started to pop up when previously frozen tundras began to rapidly melt.
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You can still see small craters from the shrapnel on the exterior of the building at 23 Wall Street.
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He frets over every leaf that lands on the ice: they warm with the sunlight and create mini-craters.
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The module was supposed to land at a nondescript site between two craters close to the lunar south pole.
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On Pluto and Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, New Horizons saw fewer small craters than had been expected.
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The Azores are known for volcanic craters, natural hot springs, 600-foot waterfalls, mountains, cerulean lagoons and dense forests.
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It was dark, according to the documents, and the roads were littered with felled power lines and shell craters.
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This makes it difficult to determine the oldest impact craters because erosion and active tectonic plates bury the evidence.
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"Giving Godhead" blows several giant craters out through the walls of our inherited and now somewhat cowed Western selves.
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Many ancient impact craters have disappeared from Earth's surface as a result of volcanic, tectonic and other erosional forces.
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Because craters are filled with less dense material than the surrounding rock, they have a slightly weaker gravitational pull.
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And if it's true that gas explosions are creating the craters, such an event can kill people, said Romanovsky.
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The planet has very little atmosphere, and its solid and rocky surface is littered with craters from meteor impacts.
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Some of the cosmic battering, from the space rocks that landed in the oceans, did not carve out craters.
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Dissatisfied with the shortcomings of lunar nomenclature, which was based largely on hand-drawn 19th-century maps, Mr. Whitaker and David Arthur, a collaborator on "Orthographic Atlas of the Moon," proposed new names for craters on the far side of the moon and devised a system to add more than 1,000 lettered craters.
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It&aposs one of several volcanic craters on Oahu that scientists believe were formed between 40,000 and 500,000 years ago.
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This is a dramatic photo of the Giordano Bruno crater, one of the many craters that cover the moon's surface.
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NASA's Dawn space probe captured new images of bright craters on the dwarf planet, according to a report published Tuesday.
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Red and white represent high altitude features, while blue and purple show lower terrain, such as the interiors of craters.
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From that height the darts hit the board with such force that they leave tiny craters behind when they're removed.
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Those craters tell the story of what happened in the solar system after the Earth and the moon were formed.
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But when the ice eventually melted, the lid suddenly burst off, unleashing enormous amounts of methane and forming deep craters.
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These unique geological formations, from the volcanos, to the forests, to the craters—no other person has ever seen these.
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In this photo taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, you can see two craters, both around 13,600 feet in diameter.
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In this photo taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, you can see two craters, both around 1,600 feet in diameter.
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The researchers behind the new study have discovered evidence of fluctuating groundwater levels in craters across the entire Red Planet.
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Turns out there are regions and many craters on the moon that are always in shadow, and therefore rather frosty.
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Cthulhu's terrain is vast and varied, dotted with mountains, craters and fractures in some parts and smooth in other areas.
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Pictures from Dawn indicate that the dwarf planet has only 16 craters that are bigger than 62 miles in diameter.
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Instead of craters, the dwarf planet has polygonal shapes and features that indicate the surface is geologically active and young.
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Strikingly, aerial images revealed the scars of trench lines and craters still clearly visible despite an overlay of bucolic verdancy.
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Evidence of these ancient craters has vanished from Earth but is still evident in the pockmarked face of the moon.
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At the time, Earth would have been experiencing asteroid impacts capable of creating craters that were hundreds of miles wide.
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Craters of the Moon, created in 85033 and greatly expanded in 2000, has strong support in Idaho, including from Gov.
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If these lunar craters can be dated, then it should be possible to recreate the historical bombardment rates on Earth.
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The structure was not destroyed, but the air strikes made two large craters in the approach roads on both sides.
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Reuters reporters who visited the scene could see no sign of damage apart from four craters and some splintered trees.
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Craters are also more well-preserved on the moon because it doesn't undergo the same disruptive processes that Earth does.
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They would then take a lander to the surface near its south pole, where frozen water exists within the craters.
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At different islands in Hawaii, Pele used her stick to dig out fire pits, forging the archipelago's magnificent volcanic craters.
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Caggins added that the explosions created large craters, knocked over concrete barriers and destroyed facilities that house dozens of soldiers.
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Impact craters that date back billions of years are relatively rare on Earth because our planet is so geologically active.
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As the earth dries out, it sinks, cracking buildings and forming sudden craters like the one that appeared on Jan.
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Other scientists are skeptical, because the research draws its conclusions from only a small number of terrestrial and lunar craters.
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In older craters, the boulders, battered by micrometeorites for millions of years, turn to dust, which cools quickly at night.
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"All these problems would be solved if we could just get to the moon and date 10,000 craters," he said.
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Huge shell holes, craters filled with stagnant slime, smashed buildings, hardly outlines remaining, a silent sight of ghosts and shadows.
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Trilobites Craters in a Chilean desert preserve the trajectories of giant rocks, allowing scientists to study the physics of rockslides.
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You can visit highland jungle trails, coffee plantations or the twin volcano craters called Los Gemelos, all just outside town.
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The paucity of craters speckling Sputnik Planitia shows that the ice plain&aposs surface has been shaped by geological activity recently .
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Such craters are familiar landmarks for my Earth-orbiting colleagues; I saw a dozen or more on my four shuttle missions.
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Pence suggested astronauts should land at the moon's south pole, where some ice is believed to lie hidden in shadowed craters.
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Craters are cavities on the surface of a planet that are usually caused by the impact of asteroids, meteorites or comets.
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At some point in the past, the craters at those poles were exposed to sunlight, deleting all ice found there forever.
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From there, researchers generated maps of the moon's poles, overcoming the difficulty of detailing craters located in the shadowy surface regions.
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They identified 24 craters 1.4 to 3.1 kilometers (0.9 to 1.9 miles) deep, which they analyzed for evidence of groundwater's influence.
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No craters were seen at the surface of these locations, which means the features are likely relatively young, forming only recently.
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Some of these craters were identified in the 1990s, but new scanning techniques allowed the researchers to survey the seafloor comprehensively.
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With their deep craters and mountain ranges, the contours of the earth beneath the waves are both vast and largely unknown.
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There were no mountains, as one might expect with considerable tectonic activity, and it had few signs of impact from craters.
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The topography of Ceres, with numerous deep craters indicating that the dwarf planet is less than 30 percent ice by volume.
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Craters in its limestone walls have been patched with concrete and its elegant colonnade is held up by ugly metal struts.
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Image: Ernie Wright, NASA GoddardAs noted, Mazrouei and her colleagues correlated the age of lunar impact craters with those on Earth.
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Dawn also detected an abundance of organic molecules in one of Ceres' craters, which might have come from the planet's ocean.
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Planetary scientists have long suspected that the moon's south pole hosts an abundance of water ice in its permanently shadowed craters.
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That can be used as a proxy for other planets in the solar system (including Earth) whose craters long-ago disappeared.
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There were craters everywhere; she counted at least 12, though villagers believe that as many as 20 bombs fell that day.
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Both craters were awash with water billions of years ago, making them ideal places to search for signs of past habitability.
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There was no electricity and countless craters from heavy bombing during what the Vietnamese call the American war dotted the landscape.
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It's still a question if the formation of these craters contributes significant amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, researchers say.
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The number of bomb craters in the Iron Triangle had increased even in the few months I was at Tuy Hoa.
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In addition, thawing permafrost is harming infrastructure from Alaska to Siberia, with landslides and mysterious craters swallowing parts of the Russian Arctic.
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Previously, NASA studied this diminutive debris by looking at the little craters that it left on the space shuttle like acne scars.
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But they are still important—as we've pointed out in the past, they may be contributing to the erasure of Ceres' craters.
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Since January 23, the summit craters on Etna have been restless and now strombolian explosions have been rocking the South East Crater.
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There are still fissures in the ground from February's earthquakes, and large craters, now covered in grass, from when undead creatures swarmed.
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Thirteen years later, oxblood nail polish covers my nails, and Mac's NC42 compact evens craters left behind by acne and epilation mishaps.
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In the morning they come out to inspect their vegetable plots, dotted with craters, and collect their harvest of potatoes and shrapnel.
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The bigger the craters, the longer ago they were made (because bigger chunks of debris were more common farther back in time).
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Serendipitously, this hypothesis seems to confirm direct observations of haze clouds over both Occator and Oxo craters made by the Dawn spacecraft.
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From Siberia to Canada, giant craters and canyons are opening in the Arctic permafrost, the result of climate change in the north.
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Now we know that the glow likely comes from salt, and researchers have shifted their attention to the craters that house them.
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It appeared intact, like the trees surrounding it, with no sign of any damage of the kind seen near the bomb craters.
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But using AI to find these craters is important, as it demonstrates another way machine learning can automate a labor-intensive task.
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Some 12,000 years later, the craters are still profusely leaking methane — a potent greenhouse gas and a major contributor to global warming.
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We've mapped its surface, named its craters after mythological deities, and speculated about the layers of ice, salt, and rock hidden below.
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Additional studies to determine what the impact on life is in the lagoon craters, especially at the deeper depths, would be valuable.
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Craters with a diameter larger than 60km are named after deceased scientists and artists that have contributed to Mars research and folklore.
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Some of the craters, mountains, and other features of Pluto's largest moon Charon just got official names, and they're nerdy as hell.
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The ice is locked in these craters, unable to evaporate, as temperatures reportedly never rise above -250 degrees Fahrenheit in these spots.
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Circles formed by thick batter rising look just like the craters of satellites; patches created by the Maillard reaction resemble lunar mares.
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In the past, deep, widening craters, 250 feet and growing, and large, almost perfectly-round stones have appeared in the Siberian Arctic.
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There he saw how waste plastics were put into potholes and set alight until they melted into the craters, sealing the potholes.
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New photos of the dwarf planet Ceres show off the intricate details of craters that dot the surface of the cosmic body.
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The technique allowed them to date lunar craters with diameters greater than 10 kilometers (22019 miles) and younger than 2300 billion years.
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The data also showed a dramatic cut-off in the number of terrestrial craters around 650 million years ago during the Precambrian.
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Image: CNSAOne of the craters close to the lander measures around 65 feet wide (20 meters) and 13 feet deep (4 meters).
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I was under the mistaken impression as a young artist that each of the individual craters constituted a literal work of art.
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Voters selected Galaxy Explorer, in which users navigate space, land on planets and watch their homes be transformed into craters and nebulae.
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It's scaled Martian mountains, discovered evidence of salt water in its ancient craters and even snapped a selfie with its robotic arm.
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They are pitted and scuffed, covered with rust spots that resemble blooms of algae or craters on the surface of the moon.
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Potential buyers worry about being out in public and about their financial health, as the stock market craters and businesses shut down.
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While the broader market craters, the well-known maker of bleach and disinfection wipes is only 8.5% off its most recent high.
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There were also mountains of ash, mud, small craters in the earth, collapsed houses, and streets with deep holes in the ground.
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In Deh Naw, my mother recalled, the bombings were so devastating that graves would be buried underneath rubble or turned into craters.
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The trail is littered with felled trees and craters from giant root systems that were ripped out of the ground by cyclones.
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It's equipped with two high-definition cameras and a detachable helicopter to take aerial images of the planet's cliffs, caves and craters.
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In northern Siberia, rising temperatures are causing mysterious giant craters — and even more dire consequences could be in store, say climate scientists.
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Farmers in Texas described scenes of devastation left behind by wild boars, including five-foot-wide craters that stand three feet deep.
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And the far side of the moon has craters there that were formed during the Late Heavy Bombardment, four billion years ago.
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Still, there do not seem to be enough craters on our planet, especially from the older eras — just 190 confirmed examples worldwide.
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The team then looked at 111 moon craters that were more than six miles wide and less than a billion years old.
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That's when large objects — asteroids or comets — pounded the rocky planets and left craters, some that are more than 600 miles across.
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They also mapped the trails of impact craters that led back toward the scarp, records of the rocks' trajectories for 32 boulders.
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Another possibility is that some of the boulders broke apart, and that the craters left behind recorded the bounces of different fragments.
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This observation, captured by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, covers two impact craters that expose the stratigraphy of the fans.
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Be sure to check out some crazy pictures of Bogoslof Island, with the multiple craters created by the last six months of eruptions.
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The back-and-forth gets more hectic until it verges on the avant-garde, ending with both their faces reduced to smoking craters.
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It traversed more than 28 miles (45 kilometers) of Martian terrain — the farthest of any surface robot — exploring multiple craters on the planet.
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Dragonfly is a drone designed to fly above Titan's surface, dropping down to investigate parts of the moon including its dunes and craters.
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"Because of Dawn's exploration of Vesta, we have a really good idea how many craters we should see on Ceres," he told Gizmodo.
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And I think that is going to be a big plus for the Republicans along with just the economy, unless somehow it craters.
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The following collection of mining pits, atomic craters, scientific achievements show some of the largest scale direct impact on nature done by humans.
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Astronomers can look at a glass plate of a lunar eclipse, for instance, and compare the craters to the moon we see today.
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Given their proximity to each other, MacGregor and his colleagues pondered whether these craters may have been formed by the same impact event.
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Writing today in Nature, researchers at Arizona State and Cornell Universities used the LRO's image banks to identify 222 freshly-formed impact craters.
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Flat, smooth, and brilliant, this vast, icy plain features virtually no craters, suggesting the surface has been renewing itself since it was formed.
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Technology helps with the monitoring too: drones can continue to inspect craters long after they have become too dangerous for humans to visit.
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Bottke thinks that widely accepted scaling laws used to measure craters don't accurately reflect how massive the objects that formed them really are.
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Plus, the more we know about the Moon's craters, the better we can theorize about the history and formation of our Solar System.
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While scientists have known about pockmarks since the 1990s, a new study shows the craters cover a much larger area than previously thought.
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Andreassen and her CAGE colleagues used detailed imaging technology to map about 100 craters in the Barents Sea, near the Arctic archipelago Svalbard.
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As we can see in this lunar landscape, the southern region of our moon offers amazing views of big and spectacular impact craters.
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Along the way, it took images of vast planes, sandy dunes, and craters—and it found evidence of water on the Red Planet.
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The colors of Ceres' craters seen in the video aren't exactly the colors you might see when flying above the dwarf planet yourself.
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This suggested that some of the craters may have been exposed to sunlight sometime in the past, causing the water-ice to disappear.
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Bridenstine's rationale revolves around the billions of tons of water ice known to reside in the permanently darkened craters at the lunar poles.
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We also decided to slightly boost InSight on Sunday morning to ensure that it avoided landing in hazardous territory with rocks and craters.
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Craters in the asphalt mark where suicide bombers, some driving cars, blew themselves up as Kurdish forces closed in, eventually routing the militants.
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A new study suggests those lakes may have been formed when pockets of nitrogen below Titan's surface warmed and exploded, creating huge craters.
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On its spare, merciless summit, craters and cinder cones of indefinable age keep company with a variety pack of architectural shapes housing telescopes.
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To be clear, however, this only applied to craters found on stable terrains, excluding areas like the oceans, the Amazon, and so on.
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"You can only really see the craters on the scale of tens of kilometers or something, so it might be kind of boring."
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Bomb craters still mark the landscape like Swiss cheese, scrap metal from planes and bomb casings are repurposed as planters, buckets and roofs.
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There were craters a few feet from the well, then a few meters away another one, some a hundred meters away or more.
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He dabbed the canvas experimentally with a palette knife and built up a thick texture, making the rocks and craters even more menacing.
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Craters often exhibit a slightly weaker gravitational tug than surrounding areas because they can be filled with broken-up, less densely packed material.
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They have a wealth of talent — craters for everyone else are potholes for them — and a coach who set a foundation for success.
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This matches up with the map provided by images taken from orbit, creating a guide that can identify craters, mountains and other landmarks.
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But now, astronomers may have a new way of studying these objects: by analyzing the craters they left behind on Pluto and Charon.
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A "significant" portion of the craters, Lundsten said, also contained some form of trash, including buckets, fishing gear, and loads of plastic debris.
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Before communication was lost, the lander was attempting to touch down in the high latitude areas near the south pole between two craters.
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Potholes of Detroit, however, is decidedly less artful in its depictions of the former industrial powerhouse's perilous craters, conveniently accompanied by specific intersections.
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The calculation, according to top Republican officials, is that if Trump craters, it could prompt a wave election and give Democrats control of Congress.
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Epimetheus did not form with all of those craters in place -- rather, bombardment over the eons has left this tiny moon's surface heavily pitted.
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The photos sent back to Earth were truly jaw dropping, revealing surface features such as tiny rocks, boulders, craters, cliffs, sinkholes, and dust jets.
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But previous observations by telescopes on Earth had indicated that craters at Mercury's poles held shiny deposits, which were hypothesized to be water ice.
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One such mission, known as Lunar Flashlight, will send a CubeSat to the space near the Moon to look for ice inside lunar craters.
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Image: WikimediaA dark depression some 750 miles (1200 kilometers) wide, Imbrium basin is one of the most striking impact craters in our solar system.
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The frost—if that's what it is—was found in permanently dark areas, namely the floors of deep craters that don't receive direct sunlight.
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The result is an astonishing variety of landscapes ranging from patterned plains to ancient, rugged craters to towering mountains and perhaps even ice volcanoes.
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In Chicago, Jim Bachor is known for beautifying the city's dilapidated streets by filling its concrete craters with beautifully crafted mosaics of flower bouquets.
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In 1994, a joint probe from NASA and the US military called Clementine found evidence that water exists in craters at the Moon's poles.
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The rover discovered that thick mounds are made of sedimentary rock, with the bottom layers transported to craters by water millions of years ago.
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According to the cartographer, Martian craters smaller than 60km in diameter are named after small towns on Earth with populations less than 100,000 people.
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This, combined with measurements of its impact craters, implies that Bennu is between 100 million and 1 billion years old, older than previously thought.
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You can walk to an overlook of the heavily-altered summit area, or drive through the lava-blanketed land along Chain of Craters Road.
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But when studying these polar regions, Siegler and his team noticed that water-ice seemed to be missing from some of the shadowed craters.
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"This plain on Sputnik Planum has no impact craters on it," says Jeffrey Moore, a New Horizons co-investigator at NASA Ames Research Center.
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All that remains is a field pitted by abandoned trenches and bomb craters, littered with scorched tents and the twisted metal carcasses of vehicles.
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Many of the craters predicted in the models have seemingly been erased, meaning that some kind of major geological activity has wiped them away.
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Data from Dawn indicates that there are three large depressions on Ceres, measuring up to 500 miles wide, that are filled with smaller craters.
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In northern Russia's Krasnoyarsk region, craters are literally bursting forth from the ground, and many scientists believe that unseasonably warm conditions are to blame.
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The list counted 29 craters that were no older than 290 million years and nine between 291 million years and 650 million years old.
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We might show him the beaches of Normandy, where lingering craters and bullet holes demonstrate the West's will to sacrifice to preserve our freedom.
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The next astronaut missions are to head near the lunar South Pole where there is ice frozen in the eternal shadows of some craters.
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If all goes well, the autonomous aircraft will snapshot aerial views of Martian cliffs, caves and craters that the land-bound rover can't explore.
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Picking up her maid of honor required sweet-talking her way through a police barricade and driving around bomb craters by the military airport.
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He points to the sloping surface of Zimmerman Street, a block pockmarked by craters and deep ruts that never seem to be fully fixed.
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In the past few years, we've been treated to a spider-like scene potentially caused by small tornadoes and vast views of impact craters.
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"There is no estimate for how much methane is released into the atmosphere because we don't know how" such craters are formed, Romanovsky said.
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The craters reveal that small Kuiper Belt objects less than 100 kilometers in size probably created them when they collided with Pluto and Charon.
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In the heart of the old city, craters littered intersections and roadways, marking the places where bombs pummeled the ground, dropped from coalition warplanes.
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A heat-measuring instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to differentiate warm craters from cooler ones, and the pattern seemed to hold.
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The absence of older craters might be explained by what geologists describe as the "Snowball Earth" period, when ice covered almost the entire planet.
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Such features are also believed to be relatively young based on their lack of impact craters – a reminder of how surprisingly geologically active Enceladus is.
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Mars, the dwarf planet Ceres, and even the planet Mercury have water ice on their surfaces, the latter two in permanently shaded areas like craters.
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The surface of the asteroid is pockmarked with craters believed to have been caused by a large smash the rock took in its formative years.
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Global mapping of the moon has raised interest in the poles and areas that sit in continual darkness, like craters where the sun can't reach.
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One of the largest impact craters on Earth has been discovered more than a half-mile under ice in northwest Greenland, NASA reported on Wednesday.
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This comes as Venezuela's output craters under the weight of economic crisis and U.S. sanctions and a fresh round of deadly civil conflict rocks Libya.
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MESSENGER has confirmed that idea — and shown that these craters stay cold enough to permit ice because as Mercury rotates, they remain in permanent shadow.
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Armstrong, weren't you nervous flying over the moon with all those rocks and craters, knowing that you only had a few seconds of fuel left?
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That's in spite of the fact that neighboring minor planet Vesta, which Dawn visited first, has craters of up to 300 miles (500 kilometers) across.
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Scientists studied the contents of craters left by supervolcanoes in Oregon, Nevada and other parts of the United States, which erupted millions of years ago.
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That said, scientists have suspected that frost may exist inside of dark craters found at the poles, but scant evidence exists to support this claim.
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After the announcement of the first crater discovery last year, scientists went sifting through data in hopes of finding more craters hiding beneath Greenland's ice.
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There's evidence both in favor of and against the two craters forming nearly simultaneously, according to the paper, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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A lunar landscape scene captured from the Cumeada Observatory in Portugal's Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve shows the impact craters of Aristoteles, Eudoxus, Aristillus and Autolycus.
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For the University of Michigan student stuffed inside the Novum, the Craters of the Moon would have been just one more point of passing interest.
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The locations of two large craters suggest the first bomb hit the mosque during prayers, sending survivors fleeing before a second blast hit people outside.
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The video tour also takes viewers to Ceres' most famous attractions of craters and mountains, including the ultimate headliner: the huge bright crater named Occator.
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The carbon comes up to the surface when asteroids or other objects hit the planet, leaving large impact craters that expose the ancient materials underneath.
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Images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — a NASA satellite orbiting Mars — showed telltale dark streaks running down various mountains, valleys, and craters on Mars.
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The researchers think these depressions — also known as planitiae — may be huge impact basins that have been slowly erased and covered up by newer craters.
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In recent years, researchers used Opportunity to examine a series of large craters in order to get a look at older layers of Mars' history.
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A throng of residents led Mr. Garman to the plutonium-covered craters, where they peered down at the shattered wreckage, not knowing what to do.
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In 2008, the nation deployed orbiter Chandrayaan-1 that played an instrumental role in helping confirm the presence of water ice in the lunar craters.
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If ancient glaciers "vacuumed up Earth's craters," Cavosie said, than sediments dating back to this period "should be bursting at the seams" with shocked minerals.
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Her standing among white men does not threaten her clinching the Democratic nomination this year, or preclude her from winning in November, unless it craters.
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Before this study, scientists believed they couldn't find the oldest impact craters on Earth because erosion or other geological processes wiped them from the surface.
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The illegal mines spill out over dozens of miles, leaving a pockmarked stretch of earth where the jungle gives way to countless craters and scars.
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While it had been nearly 21973 years since the last American planes riddled the countryside near Danang in central Vietnam, craters still pockmark the land.
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Mr. Pence said the astronauts would land near the lunar south pole, where water ice exists in eternally shadowed craters, adding to the technical complexity.
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It appears that this ice — very muddy ice, mixed with a lot of lunar dust — exists inside craters where direct sunlight does not reach it.
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This is why all impact craters on Earth are large: only large, heavy objects keep their orbital kinetic energy all the way to the ground.
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Chasing the Deal The stark Negev Desert, filled with craters, multicolored sand and clusters of Bedouin villages, comprises more than half of Israel's total mass.
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Impact craters can, however, get buried under shifting tectonic plates or scraped away by erosion (though Indochina is a relatively stable part of our planet).
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By studying the craters, astronomers now believe, they have a greater understanding of the mysterious Kuiper Belt objects on the edge of our solar system.
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The scientists will begin to start counting craters, mapping the surface, looking for moons and rings around Ultima Thule and identifying materials on the surface.
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A clearer look at the rims of the pits might help tell whether they are small impact craters or they formed from erosion, for example.
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Sixteen of the craters had debris piles that looked like they were caused by landslidesDiagram showing the receding water forming features in present-day cratersGraphic: ESATaken together, these data points all occurring at similar depths made the researchers infer that the features they saw in these craters "contained water that progressively receded, leaving behind landforms in a specific chronological order," according to the study.
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Details: China's probe landed in one of the moon's oldest and deepest craters, a prime location for more learning more about the moon's history and resources.
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And every day, the craft's on-board camera snaps over 600 photographs of the moon's craters, dunes, and mountains, helping scientists understand lunar geology and topography.
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The only data that's presented on this globe are Braille-like bumps that represent the moon's ridges, mountains, and craters at a 1:20-million scale.
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Investigating craters and traces of waterborne rock beds, Opportunity lasted more than 22020,000 Mars days, called "sols," or about 5,200 Earth days, before its mission ended.
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Vesta had an iron core and a pitted surface that boasted craters, including one with a mountain twice the size of Mount Everest at its center.
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The tilted orientation of Emmet Gowin's aerial photograph "Subsidence Craters on Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site" (1603) feels spontaneously captured, like he discovered a strange land.
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Craters offer a window into a planet's history, which is why they're one of the first things astronomers examine when trying to understand a new object.
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Based on the heavily battered appearance of other asteroid belt objects, astronomers expected that our first close-up glimpse of Ceres would yield numerous large craters.
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Some of the planes lay damaged, rusting and exposed on the edge of makeshift former airstrips, rendered unusable by large craters created by Honduran military explosives.
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They sliced through tiny bits of volcanic magma, which were trapped in crystals in the craters, and analyzed them to find the valuable silvery-white metal.
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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization StudioFor decades, scientists have wondered if frost persists inside the dark and cold craters of the Moon's poles.
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In these craters, temperatures remain below minus 163 degrees C (minus 260 degrees F), potentially allowing water ice to persist for millions or billions of years.
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Click here to view original GIFHere is how subsidence craters are formed: an underground nuclear explosion gets set off and creates a hole underneath the ground.
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Scientists suspect that the salt heaps found in craters like Occator (shown in the video above) were excavated from a subsurface brine layer during ancient impacts.
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As the researchers who conducted the work explain in an unpublished paper, they trained their network using a data set of craters previously identified by humans.
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I move to the northern end of the map, and the next screen is littered with smaller craters, some overlapping and some independent, but each unique.
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The mission began in the Eagle crater, and after studying nearby craters, the scientists decided to take a long journey to the much larger Endeavour crater.
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The video, made by the Toronto-based group SYSTEM Sounds, assigns bell sounds to asteroid impacts that left lunar craters larger than 10 kilometers in diameter.
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The Moon's water isn't liquid; some ice can be found in the craters that don't receive any sunlight, but mostly, traces exist inside the Moon's minerals.
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They could be from wildfires or smoldering bomb craters, prefiguring the charred moonscape that enormous tracts of France would become in the next century's World Wars.
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As a 20133-year-old dog handler, Mr. Watson slept in the dirt just feet from one of the bomb craters the day after the blast.
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One of the things learned since Apollo that Bezos highlighted is that there are deposits of water ice at the bottom of craters on the moon.
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By studying the geology of these craters, scientists may be able to piece together how Ceres evolved into the strange looking, craggy world it is today.
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Here, researchers model all sorts of large-scale (aka "too large for a lab") geological events, such as the creation of volcanic craters by subsurface explosions.
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A trip to Shabab territory is an open invitation to be kidnapped, so I could not survey battlefields or dig through craters for scraps of bombs.
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The first incarnation was made a few years back, which was a series of reliefs made out of different types of wood, focusing on different craters.
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To study volcanoes, scientists brave the rippling heat of lava and acrid gases, climbing up slopes and sometimes into craters to place instruments and take measurements.
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Get your head into the clouds with AERIAL GEOLOGY: A High-Altitude Tour of North America's Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters and Peaks (Timber, $29.95).
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If you make your way to the crater (or any of the smaller craters scattered around the map), you'll find glowing, collectible rocks scattered all over.
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In 2008, Chandrayaan-1 completed some 3,400 orbits around the moon and contributed to confirming the presence of water ice in lunar craters near the poles.
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The IAU tends to pull the names for craters from two groups: deceased scientists, scholars, explorers and artists; or deceased American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts. 6.
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These mini craters, which are about 35 feet wide and three feet deep on average, were roughly three times more abundant than their bigger crater cousins.
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The I.A.U. has traditionally concerned itself with policing the names of asteroids, craters and comets, and famously demoting Pluto from full-planet status 10 years ago.
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A 53-mile-wide crater known as Tycho, known to be young, retained warmth during nighttime, while other craters known to be much older did not.
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To argue against erosion erasing the craters, the researchers pointed to geological features known as kimberlite pipes — carrot-shaped rock formations that form during explosive eruptions.
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He later posted on Twitter four images of a forested area pockmarked with small craters and debris, which he said was the site of Indian airstrikes.
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Be mindful of the world and be ready to pivot in the unlikely event that your net worth craters by 50% the day after you quit.
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"We saw fallen trees and one damaged house, and four craters where the bombs had fallen," said Mohammad Ajmal, a 25-year-old who visited the site.
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On a muddy trail in the backwoods of rural Ohio, the Raptor thundered down a muddy trail, flattened bumps, smashed through craters and splashed through massive puddles.
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The flyover video shows craters, mountains and dark streaks dotting various regions, including one known as Arsia Chasmata, near the large Martian volcano known as Arsia Mons.
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In this way, Diviner provides a thermal method for dating craters up to one billion years old, which is when weathering makes age distinctions harder to spot.
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The replica is hand-painted, but because the surface is 3D-printed, you can feel all of the moon's craters as you hold it in your hand.
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"We saw fallen trees and one damaged house, and four craters where the bombs had fallen," said Mohammad Ajmal, a 143-year-old who visited the site.
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This estimate comes from data collected by the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-18251653 lunar orbiter, which detected the ice-hiding craters tilted away from the sun.
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Watson, who has studied Palomares's test results and reports in detail, said the ambient air tests probably do not reflect what individuals working near the craters absorbed.
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Apart from the Civil War and Great Depression, our passage along this way has not careened into the cracks and craters that have scarred the European way.
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Over time, her model was able to perfectly reproduce the mounds we see in Martian craters today, including the crescent-shaped moats that form around crater edges.
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The moon formed after a huge body collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago, and its craters are the scars of a billion-year bombardment of asteroids.
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The recent announcement that water ice resides within the permanently shadowed craters of the lunar poles was a confirmation of something scientists have suspected since the 1960s.
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This first data is a result from New Horizons approaching Ultima Thule with the sun behind the spacecraft, making it hard to see whether there are craters.
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There were sheds for workers to wash and to change their clothes, a canteen, and, beyond, a landscape dominated by huge piles of dirt and deep craters.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres since 2015, where it's been studying surface features like mountains of bright ice and odd impact craters.
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We had to ensure and prove to multiple reviewers, when we submitted our paper, that we had accounted for all terrestrial craters on stable terrains on Earth.
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By re-assessing the terrestrial impact record, the researchers discovered a dearth of craters on Earth between 300 million and 650 million years ago during the Precambrian.
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This surprising deficit of craters, according to the study, is not the result of erosion, but rather an unexpected decline in asteroid impacts during this historical period.
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When he was only 19 years old, revolutionary conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner executed one of his first artworks by using dynamite to explode craters in the earth.
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What good is the church in an hour of peril if the church craters and caves into the fears and the spirits of torment in our society?
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And the United States is using lighter munitions — Hellfire missiles and other precision weapons with smaller warheads — that typically don't produce craters we can see from space.
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Large amounts of carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere would likely create minerals high in alkalines and nitrogen isotopes that remain behind in craters on the surface.
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This zoomed-in view of moon Epimetheus, one of the highest resolutions ever taken, shows a surface covered in craters, vivid reminders of the hazards of space.
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