Sentence examples for flat crater from inspiring English sources

We assumed a flat crater bottom with an ellipsoidal height of 1371 m and estimated locations of features on SAR images acquired thereafter.

Indeed, signs of activity abound on Yucca Flat, a cratered plain where most of the nation's nuclear tests take place.

A smaller, 60 km wide, flat-floored crater named Sinlap and a 30 km crater with a central peak and dark floor named Ksa have also been observed.

Interspersed among the larger craters are relatively flat, less-cratered regions termed intercrater plains.

They argue that the presence of such organisms is one way of explaining the comet's "distinct and unexpected features" on its body mass, including a black crust, underlying ice, flat-bottomed craters, and a surface "peppered with mega-boulders".

Images from the spacecraft could lead to new insights about what the flat-bottomed craters on the dwarf planet imply about its potential water reservoirs, scientists say.

Beresheet aimed to set down within the northeastern section of a lava plain known as the Sea of Serenity, chosen largely because it is flat with few craters.

Scheduled to launch after Thanksgiving, the Mars Science Laboratory — less formally known as Curiosity — is to arrive on Mars the following August, landing on the flat portion of the crater.

The intention is to put MSL-Curiosity down on the flat plain of the crater bottom.

The intention on Monday is to put MSL-Curiosity down on the flat plain of the crater bottom.

I press north and the telescope whirs gently up the way, revealing jagged-edge craters and flat, silvery volcanic plains.