Sentence examples for for a crater from inspiring English sources

To search for further evidence of Martian water, the Opportunity has climbed out of its landing site and will head for a crater named Endurance, 2,300 feet away.

Over the next few weeks, NASA hopes the rover will examine nearby soil and rocks, then head for a crater northeast of the lander.

In this appendix, we derive the formulae for a crater rim radius Rcr, which is defined by the distance from the center to the rim of the crater, and for the total mass of ejecta me escaping from a target body, provided that an object of radius r and density ρi (then the mass mi = 4πρir3/3) impacts with velocity νi onto the comet surface of density ρt and gravity g.

A survey of available penetration data is used to construct a one-dimensional approach for estimating the geometry of a crater resulting from high-energy impact.

Rebel units held onto remote areas into the 1990s, skirmishing periodically with government forces and leaving the roads in total disrepair, a moonscape of potholes and mud that gave travelers sore backs and made for a crater-dodging, head-bumping ride.

But authorities found no signs of a crater as they searched for one via helicopter.

For that, a crater of the right age would be required.

Mr. Feoktistov, for whom a crater was named on the Moon, was also the only Soviet astronaut who was not a member of the Communist Party, the agency said.

"For decades, 'pulling a Crater' was common slang for disappearing without a trace," Mr. Robbins said.

To critics of the vaguely sci-fi design of the projected Palazzo, nicknamed "il Sasso," or the Rock, it may seem poetically appropriate that all there is to show for it is a crater of such proportions as a modestly sized meteorite might make on plummeting to earth.

One drink-driving episode later, and the tyres of Barry's BMW are drawing circles on a cliff-top road and the foursome are searching for whatever just made a crater in the windscreen.