Posts Tagged ‘craters’
Moon minerals survive rock-melting blasts
BROWN (US) — Despite the unimaginable energy of large impacts on the Moon, they may not wipe the mineralogical slate clean, according to new research. Continue…
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 14:12 - 0 Comments
Science & Technology - Nov 26, 2012 15:30 - 1 Comment
To predict volcano’s impact, grab the TNT
U. BUFFALO (US) — Scientists have blown holes into the Earth to study maar craters and, hopefully, better predict the next big volcano. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 29, 2012 11:58 - 0 Comments
Giant crater discovery is Earth’s oldest yet
CARDIFF U. (UK) — A massive asteroid or comet impact caused a 100 kilometer-wide crater in Greenland one billion years before any other known collision on Earth. (more…)
Top Stories - Jun 13, 2012 11:41 - 0 Comments
Clobbered Mars has more than 635,000 craters
U. COLORADO BOULDER (US) — Researchers recently finished counting and cataloging more than 635,000 violent impact craters on Mars. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 29, 2009 11:52 - 0 Comments
Messenger makes final Mercury flyby
U. COLORADO (US)—NASA’s Messenger spacecraft will zip by Mercury for the third and final time today, September 29, cruising within 142 miles of the planet’s surface at more than 100,000 mph. Messenger will take high-resolution color images of the surface terrain before making a clever gravity-assist maneuver that will steer it into orbit around the rocky planet beginning in March 2011. (more…)
