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Articles tagged: impact craters

  • 11 June 2015 Why impact glass on Mars is a major discovery

    ... (MRO) has found deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Such deposits could provide us with more details on the possibility of past life on the Red Planet, said NASA. What makes impact glass special? It actually has to do with...

  • mars, Solar System, space travel, water January 2018 When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land

    ... touched down on the Martian surface. And this is not the only example of lava filled craters. Indeed, the majority of the impact craters on Mars are filled by lava and/or by basaltic sands of volcanic origin transported by the wind. The...

    • mars
    • Solar System
    • space travel
    • water
    Authors: Giovanni Leone    
  • HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Experiment), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), mega-tsunami, oceans on Mars 07 August 2019 Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars

    ... Martian northern plains could be the lasting remnant of an impact crater which caused a mega-tsunami to wash over the Red...mirror features seen in marine impact craters on Earth and are caused when the rim of the crater collapses inward after the ...

    • HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Experiment)
    • Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
    • Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA)
    • mega-tsunami
    • oceans on Mars
  • DART, Didymos, Hera, NASA, planetary defence September 2019 A new era in planetary defence missions

    ... will deploy LICIACube roughly five days prior to impact. LICIACube will capture images of the DART impact, the resulting ejecta cloud, and potentially a glimpse of the impact crater on the surface of Didymos B. LICIACube images will be downlinked...

    • DART
    • Didymos
    • Hera
    • NASA
    • planetary defence
    Authors: Nancy L Chabot     Sean Blair    
  • Cerealia Facula, Ceres, cryovolcanism, Dawn Mission, Occator Crater 13 December 2017 Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active

    ... in the fourth category, this relates to the one instance on Ceres where bright material is unaffiliated with any impact crater. This category contains the mountain Ahuna Mons – a likely cryovolcano that formed by the gradual accumulation of thick...

    • Cerealia Facula
    • Ceres
    • cryovolcanism
    • Dawn Mission
    • Occator Crater
  • Chicxulub, iridium anomaly, iridium layer, mass extinction, Nimura, Pinatubo, Toba, Woodleigh crater 23 March 2016 Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?

    ... beyond about 5 years. Second, the team state that impact events that are of similar scale to that of Chicxulub, such as the Chesapeake Bay, Woodleigh and Popigai impact cratering have not caused the widespread devastation associated with...

    • Chicxulub
    • iridium anomaly
    • iridium layer
    • mass extinction
    • Nimura
    • Pinatubo
    • Toba
    • Woodleigh crater
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