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Hidden craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring—like Saturn
Around 466 million years ago, a lot of meteorites started hitting Earth. We know this because many impact craters formed in ... When a small body (like an asteroid) passes close to a large body ...
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The Biggest Crater on The Moon Is Much Bigger Than We Ever Realized
Earth's only permanent natural satellite ... by an oblique collision with a large object, leaving behind a crater shaped more like an oval than a circle. Under this model, the debris would have ...
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It's a mile wide, and a road runs through it. Do drivers know they're cutting through a crater?
Paul Heinrich, retired associate researcher with the Louisiana Geological Survey at LSU, discovered citronelle formations in ...
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There’s a Pac-Man-shaped crater on Mars
HiRise team speculates it’s because of sand filling up the upwind portion of the crater. This isn’t the first time images from the surface of Mars have resembled icons familiar to humans.
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Incredibly rare ‘snowy’ snaps of Mars show ‘winter wonderland’ blanketed with unique ‘cube-shaped snowflakes’
The Korolev crater has a 50-mile-wide ... become a go-to destination for future astro ice skaters. The first is Earth-like snow made of water ice. The second consists of carbon dioxide, or ...