Uniform grooves across its craters and ridges hint at a global network of underground layers, which Cheng says could indicate Eros was once part of a larger body.
Waffles, like their doughnut cousins, tend to fall into two camps: cake and yeast-raised, the former sporting a firmer crumb, the latter, a lighter center and crisper ridges.
Perhaps a fairer match for the new course would be against eight-year-old Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand, which runs along and around ridges on a secluded stretch of jagged coastline.
It takes seven or eight hours and strong legs to hike the whole crossing, past ice-blue crater lakes, over snow-covered ridges and through windswept mountain deserts, where totara trees cling to the soft black volcanic sand.
Hikers pass through a variety of landscapes, through lava fields, across black obsidian ridges and over mountain-tops.
It is difficult to think of places more deserving of protection from towering, unsightly turbines than mountain ridges and shorelines.
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Others are so large that their ridges and peaks tangle with those of the mainland itself to produce an ambiguity of land and sea.
Set in a monumental amphitheatre of peaks, ridges and jagged stone bluffs, it's far more rugged than the sweeping farmlands at Appenzell.
From the garden that fronts the main entrance, Hyderabad appears as an expanse of white and pastel-colored cubes punctuated by minarets and framed by ridges of tawny rock.
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The best sites for wind power production are typically along mountain ridges and coastal areas, locations that are also prized for scenic views and over-flown by bird and bat species that become turbine blade casualties.
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When a lemon's citral molecule, for instance, hits the receptors in our noses, those receptors recognize the particular ridges and valleys, and can provide our brain with one clue about the identity of the fruit being sniffed.
To succeed, he will have to travel some 700 miles in temperatures cold enough to freeze the fluid in his nose and eyes, pulling the equivalent of two Sumo wrestlers up and down steep ridges while trying to avoid lethal gaps in the ice.
Both hotspots and mid-ocean ridges are volcanic, so Iceland is doubly so.
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Two kinds of cranberry sauce, homemade and the round kind with ridges, are also part of this meal.
Its characteristic features are the landforms shaped by the Ice Age: glacial ridges, pine and lichen-clad heaths, kettle holes and small ponds filled with crystal clear water.
The ridges crested with gold and amber as we entered North Carolina.
This is shallower and smoother than slow-spreading ridges such as the Mid-Atlantic.
The road petered out in an area with little valleys, ridges, hills, and peaks, but it was not the contours of the land that created the uneven surface but, rather, the layers of things that had been thrown away: everything that the consumerist city had used up and expelled so that it could immediately enjoy the pleasure of handling new things had ended up in this unprepossessing neighborhood.
Communities of people that enjoy discussing the latest in laminating film, coating steel coils and creating more efficient ways to ventilate ridges, whatever that means.
Getting there involves a heady mix of chicken buses and trucks (all under the watchful companionship of Rivera), but as the ridges of the mountains start to emerge from behind the clouds of dust, and then emerge some more, it is clear this is a special place.
The first stage cycles through levels of brightness in the image to see which features, such as logos, circles or ridges, persist at extremes of light and dark.
After their failed rebellion against Saddam Hussein, 500, 000 Kurds had been driven out of their homeland in northern Iraq and were camped on the desolate, wintry mountain ridges along the Iraq-Turkey border.
Stony ridges rise up from ravines, dry riverbeds and hardly vegetated plains, and curl around each other.
While serving as his uncle's apprentice, Perdix was inspired by the ridges on the backbone of a fish, and invented the handy cutting tool.
Dune: accumulations of wind-blown sand in ridges or mounds that lie landward of the beach and usually parallel to the shoreline.
Chen Guihua, a peasant, and her parents-in-law, both in their 60s, walk more than 5 and a half miles most days--over two mountain ridges--for two buckets of drinking water.
Guests traverse sharp ridges, cross a suspension bridge of dizzying heights and scramble over the final summit, all the while taking in the snow-capped mountain scenery and watching the occasional eagle fly overhead.
"We're finding that when you rub a natural biological surface that has an orientation - that has a grain, if you will - and you run that grain perpendicularly to the long axis of the ridges, we find a dramatic increase in friction, " Dr Dominy told BBC News.
When the sensor's cap had ridges, like a fingerprint, it was able to amplify and filter certain vibrational frequencies, the authors said.
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