Carolyn Porco

Even by the diverse standards of Saturn's satellites, Enceladus was an outlier. Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.

American Scientist

Isabella Bird

Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.

English Explorer

Michio Kaku

Without Jupiter cleaning out the early solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions. We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would probably be a gigantic crater it if wasn't for Jupiter.

American Physicist

Carrie Nugent

NASA has hit a comet with an impactor, during the Deep Impact mission. The goal of that mission was to study the surface by making a crater and stirring up the surface material so it could be studied.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.

Alan Stern

The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn't expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did.

Georgia Toffolo

I've been called pizza face and others said my skin was full of craters - it's just so horrible when people pin point something that you feel so badly about.

English Celebrity

Peter Higgs

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

British Physicist

Steven Squyres

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Agnes Smedley

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

American Journalist

Used to describe holes shaped by large force, like blasts, not just regular digging.

Explosive Origin

Suggests a dramatic or major effect, often used metaphorically for notable changes.

Dramatic Impact

Refers specifically to hollows on moons, planets, and asteroids, implying an extraterrestrial context.

Celestial Bodies

Often associated with telescopes, space probes, and exploration.

Astronomical Observations

Specific to volcanology and refers to the distinct bowl-shaped opening at volcano tops.

Volcanic Structure

Usually found in geographic literature and travel guides, describing unique destinations.

Geographical Feature

When used as a verb, it emphasizes the action of creating a hollow, similar to the noun form.

Action Result

Verb form implies a sudden or unexpected creation of a hole or depression, not a gradual process.

Sudden Change

Used metaphorically to describe a sudden fail or breakdown, commonly in business or emotional contexts.

Metaphoric Collapse

More casual, often in spoken language and can convey disappointment or a downturn in situations.

Colloquial Usage

 the moon's craters create these things called Baily's beads and they only last for fractions of a second or maybe a second or two so lots millions of people will have their camera set on high-speed yeah firing off their pictures trying to get that perfect daily speed picture oh and here's an important point if you are trying to do some Astro photography or

Watch the Total Solar...

 and follow them to the edges of our big weird beautiful world this week we hitch a ride aboard the perseverance rover sort of and learn how its elaborate cameras are ready to get our closest ever look at the red rocks craters and canyons of an ancient delta on mars its mission to seek out signs of past

Mars Gets Ready for Its...

 normally done with spacecraft. Normally, you look at the sky and you know where you point and where you are. In this case, that's not enough. We navigated by looking at landmarks on the comet. We recognized features -- boulders, craters -- and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet.

Fred Jansen: How to land...

 and they look a lot like these microbial tubules we also study impact craters these are observed on every planetary body in the solar system and they're created when an asteroid or comet hits the planet or a moon they have a very destructive reputation but they actually

What does an alien look...

 reconstruction of the crater itself will be very useful and figuring out which layers are iron-rich which layers are sulfur rich within the caldera as a whole there's certainly life coating the walls as you go down on some of the surfaces down at the bottom almost

Drones Sacrificed for...

 So to finally get to hear the sounds of grains of sand being turned over and the sounds of that very thin atmosphere being blustered around in this crater, it's absolutely incredible. The first time I saw the pictures from the surface, it was like being

Robots Hunting for Life...

 ancient ocean basin there aren't many craters and that's because the water protected the the basin from being impacted by asteroids of meteorites and but not look in the southern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere their impact

Why we need to go back...

 it would have been a great success but now the rover heads for a bigger deeper crater nearby which could expose even more bedrock as we went deeper the chemistry and the texture of the rocks changed dramatically in a way that

Mars Rover: Opportunity...

 With polar ice caps, valleys, planes and craters. It even has glaciers made of frozen nitrogen and frozen water on the surface makes giant floating mountains. Such varied terrain is influenced by the presence

Pluto 101 PIPE National...

 It's what's brought me here. To this cracked, eroded landscape. Like Mars, it's dry, barren, and incredibly ornate. The carved canyons, long shadows, deep craters,

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