June 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... the state of Arizona in the USA lies the Barringer Crater, which measures some 1.3km across and is 170 metres ...September 2007: an explosion near the village of Carancas in Peru caused a crater with a diameter of 30 metres and six metres deep; • 15 ...
20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
... a typical onshore height of around 50 m and local variations from ~10 m to as much as ~120 m. The team estimate that impact craters with a diameter of ~30 km formed at a rate of one every 2.7 million years during the Late Hesperian over the entire...
23 June 2016
Newly found mineral on Mars hints at explosive volcanism
...have discovered an unexpected mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater, prompting a rethink on how the Red Planet may have ...Since landing in August 2012, Curiosity has been studying Gale Crater – a feature 154 kilometers (96 miles) in diameter which...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats and the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) – a vast radio telescope concept deployed to a crater on the far side of the Moon that was proposed by Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay. If Bandyopadhyay...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
...and when these strike an ocean, such as the famous Chicxulub crater buried beneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, megatsunamis can form...years ago, all of the evidence points to Lomonosov crater being produced by a wayward space rock impacting into a...
05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
...that it will only be able to confirm whether an artificial crater has been successfully created later in April after the probe has ...to the site to make extensive observations. Once at the crater and after the dust and debris has settled, depending on ...
