Crater in a sentence

A central peak rises 23 km above the lowest measured part of the crater floor and the highest measured part of the crater rim is 31 km above the crater floor low point.

Note astronaut cutout and flag attached to fence (inset) full size image Meteor Crater is a popular tourist attraction privately owned by the Barringer family through the Barringer Crater Company, with an admission fee charged to see the crater.

Next, the rover will study an area near the crater’s entrance where a river flooded across the crater floor, leaving behind deposits of carbonate that resemble a bathtub ring.

Images from Dawn’s camera system show that a crater wall rises above the crater floor.

The island – where Mr Orese, his wife, two children and five grandchildren live – surrounds Taal Volcano's main crater and the so-called "crater lake".

The researchers also created a new 3-D topographical model of the crater using aerial photographs taken by Ted Brattstrom, a Hawaiian high school teacher who flew over the crater in 2007 taking photos of it from a number of different directions.

This follows the discovery of a over 30-km-wide crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier — the first meteorite impact crater ever discovered under Earth’s ice sheets — announced in November last year.

The last three images in the sequence, from May 29-June 6, show the development of several cracks outside Halema‘uma‘u (also seen in UAS footage of the crater) and inward slumping of a large portion of the western and southwestern crater rim.

After a laborious exercise in draining one of these bogs (the so-called "Suslov's crater", convert in diameter), he found there was an old stump on the bottom, ruling out the possibility that it was a meteoric crater.

Barringer Crater Co. He estimated from the size of the crater that the meteorite had a mass of 100 million tons.

Breccia of this type may be present on or beneath the floor of the crater, in the rim, or in the ejecta expelled beyond the crater.

Carmelo Crater is deeply dissected on its south side by the younger Sherman Crater.

For redirect infobox The Holsinger meteorite is the largest discovered fragment of the meteorite that created Meteor Crater and it is exhibited in the crater visitor center.

In small craters, less than about 4 km diameter on Earth, there is some limited collapse of the crater rim coupled with debris sliding down the crater walls and drainage of impact melts into the deeper cavity.

Now faced with considerable flanking fire, they also went down into the crater, and for the next few hours, Mahone's soldiers, along with those of Maj. Gen. Bushrod Johnson and artillery, slaughtered the IX Corps as it attempted to escape from the crater.

Since the areas of flattened wheat "led" to the crater, it looks very much as though they, and the crater, were caused by something which came from the sky.

The cavity continues to grow, eventually producing a paraboloid (bowl-shaped) crater in which the centre has been pushed down, a significant volume of material has been ejected, and a topographically elevated crater rim has been pushed up.

The planet was then renamed for the crater, and settled by humans in a huge city running up the crater wall.

The rate of crater production on Earth has since been considerably lower, but it is appreciable nonetheless; Earth experiences from one to three impacts large enough to produce a 20 km diameter crater about once every million years on average.

A giant tree has fallen and, therefore, this tree leaves a void and a crater where this great tree was firmly rooted," Mapisa-Nqakula said.