The Moon is saturated with craters, caused by billions of years of asteroid bombardment.
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However, the oldest craters on Venus appear to have been made less than 500m years ago.
The Earth is sprinkled with around 170 craters also caused by debris falling from space.
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And if frozen water were found in lunar craters, that would indeed be icing on the cake.
Plus they have cash to invest if the market craters and most importantly, they sleep great at night.
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More likely, craters on both the earth and the moon were the acne scars left by volcanic eruptions.
Since it resembles a huge lump of coal, the craters on its surface have been named after coalfields.
It affords Dr Cheng and his colleagues the chance to get an even closer view of Eros's craters.
What's more, Pratt said his map showed that the feature is circular, which is characteristic of impact craters.
Where Arcadia and Elysium lay, there was a desolate waste, pocked with craters.
In any case, no trace of water or ice was detected anywhere, even in the deepest of Mathilde's craters.
The Shoemakers also travelled each year to the well-preserved impact craters in Australia.
Images taken before and after the crash have now revealed the precise location of the craters created by the craft.
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U.S. military investigators found no evidence of human remains in any of the four bomb craters it examined, the official said.
Shoemaker was studying asteroid impact craters in Australia and once said he would like to take a geologist's hammer to Eros.
The scientists, whose research appears in the journal Science also found 20 newly formed craters left by impacts from space debris.
But a later mission, Mariner 9, showed in 1971 that the surface had extensive sand dunes, massive craters and huge lava flows.
Old craters are eroded and buried, and not always easy to find.
The large number and concentration of craters point to an old asteroid.
Aristarchus Plateau is the primary location for these transient events, says Crotts, followed by the craters of Plato, Grimaldi, Kepler, Copernicus and Tycho.
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But consider this: Even if the startup craters, the old cash cow's profit model will have been torched beyond recognition in the battle.
Most of us work in long-sessions with few breaks, then wonder why our productivity, creativity and willpower craters as the day winds on.
Ride's educational company supplied the cameras on the mission that allowed students to take their own pictures of craters and other geological features.
We've also got a shot at finding some fresh craters, from impacts just in the few years while MRO has been in orbit.
The astronauts pointed a camera to show the view out their window, the moon's gray craters and mountains passing by around 70 miles below.
For the second, NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Shoemaker trained its lens on the saddle, a part of Eros that exhibits few impact craters.
Of course the houses didn't have enormous holes blown in their walls, and there were no actual craters, but you get the general picture.
Many have impacted the Earth over its 4.5 billion-year history --as they have hit the moon, Mars and other planets -- leaving craters behind.
That would mean that any ice which has collected in those craters (perhaps from comets that have collided with the moon) would never evaporate.
We kept sinking into little craters filled with water that splashed up onto the windshield, as if we were driving through a car wash.
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