Sentence examples for rocky debris from inspiring English sources

Below that, pores in the soil and rocky debris appear to be encrusted with ice.

They just weren't massive enough to exert a gravitational influence that could clear their orbits of smaller, rocky debris – hence their status as dwarf planets.

In spite of its tiny gravity, only about a thousandth that of Earth, Deimos has retained considerable amounts of fine regolith (unconsolidated rocky debris) on its surface.

The astronomers wondered whether the Kuiper belt might hold enough rocky debris from the birth of the solar system to nudge the objects into the same orbits.

"Ten years ago, the story of water on Mars was an occasional flood of rocky debris every 100m years that then switched off again.

In the Low Arctic, most land surfaces are fully vegetated, with the exception of rock outcrops, dry ridge tops, river gravel bars, and scree slopes (those slopes that have an accumulation of rocky debris at the angle of repose).

Others stand before sifting machines and try not to get dizzy as they watch the rocky, gray debris tumble past on conveyor belts.

The more-eroded southern part of the state gives way to the central plain, an extremely fertile agricultural belt with large farms, and then to the mostly flat glacial lake basin and moraine (rocky glacial debris) region of northern Indiana.

Finally we came to the Sotk Pass atop a rocky hill of debris dumped over the edge of the mountain by huge mining trucks.

Ceres is a very special little world: It's one of just five dwarf planets and it's also the largest member of the asteroid belt, the rocky ring of debris between Mars and Jupiter.

Most asteroids today lie in two reservoirs: they asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where Ceres, the closest dwarf planet to the Sun resides, and on the Kuiper Belt, a rocky ring of debris found farther away than Neptune, where Pluto, Makemake, Haumea and Eris (the other so-called dwarf planets) exist.