Sentence examples for ancient impact from inspiring English sources

Mountains are mostly parts of the upthrust rims of ancient impact basins.

The only significant relief in this huge area is a large ancient impact basin, informally called the Utopia basin (40° N, 250° W).

Within this ancient impact basin lies an equally ancient riverbed that provides records of flowing surface water and mineral-rich fractured terrains.

The stunning images reveal distinct tiers near the base of the 3-mile-tall mountain that rises from the floor of the vast, ancient impact basin known as Gale Crater, where Curiosity landed on 6 August to begin its two-year mission.

A fresh hypothesis suggests that the chaotic terrain in and around Aram Chaos resulted when a buried ice lake trapped in the ancient impact crater suddenly collapsed.

[Meteor Crater: Experience an Ancient Impact].

Inactive planets and moons are pocked with ancient impacts but active ones look different: the ground is turned over and refreshed.

It is also on the shields that geologic evidence of crater scars from ancient impacts of asteroids and comets is better-preserved.

The moon may be "a dead ball of stone, its face encrusted with craters from ancient impacts with interplanetary bodies," as my textbook say, but it will bring the world to life in the memorable summer of '17.

It is believed that most of these elements, mined on Earth, actually came from ancient impacts of asteroids on our planet's surface.

The dichotomy of Martian topography is striking: northern plains flattened by lava flows contrast with the southern highlands, pitted and cratered by ancient impacts.