ejecta
Example Sentences
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Several are surrounded by ejecta blankets, debris blasted outward during the original impacts.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
“If a piece of Moon ejecta is linked to a particular crater, that’s very exciting.”
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 19, 2024
"We actually used the equations of volcanoes to predict how fast ejecta would fly - 90 meters per second," he told BBC News.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2023
But then sometime between day 200 and 1000 the ejecta must have clashed with the hollow ring of star stuff, causing it to light up again.
From Space Scoop ● Mar. 21, 2023
The desert plains are giving way to bumpier terrain, strewn with ejecta that never got buried by sand.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
