Sentence examples for an impact crater from inspiring English sources

His discovery of coesite, which became a standard sign of an impact crater, sealed the debate.

And scientists in Egypt never found an impact crater and a nearby lode of meteorites.

Although little studied, it is considered an impact crater because of its size.

That was not unexpected for a rim of an impact crater.

Dr. Becker, Dr. Poreda and their colleagues had previously found buckyballs at an impact crater in Sudbury, Canada, and in two meteorites.

About 10 stepped fans have been identified, most at the base of a steep slope emptying into a basin like an impact crater.

Ganesa Macula may be an eroded impact crater with a dark dune in the center.

All right, so it isn't technically a soccer ball: It's an old impact crater that's been flooded with lava, leaving behind a circular impression and a pattern of narrow lanes within.

Hubble Space Telescope had already revealed the peak or mound in the left-center; it marks the heart of an enormous impact crater spanning 460 kilometers (apparently hard to see from this perspective).

But it took the little Clementine spacecraft, a low-cost mission of the Department of Defense and NASA, to shine a radar "flashlight" into the permanent darkness of one corner of a great impact crater and get a return flash of the sort that ice can make.

Scientists have discovered a colossal impact crater hidden under a mile of ice in northwest Greenland, according to a new study in Science Advances that could have major repercussions for several scientific fields.