crater
Example Sentences
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This area contains a series of long, shallow grooves set within a landscape of deep valleys, scattered impact craters, and surface textures that point to a distant ice age on the Red Planet.
From Science Daily
A recently uncovered and unusually intact impact crater is offering scientists new insights into how objects from space have struck Earth throughout its history.
From Science Daily
This week Elon Musk suggested on X that quantum computing would run best on the "permanently shadowed craters of the moon".
From BBC
Early results suggested the crater was formed by an asteroid several hundred meters wide about 66 million years ago, but proof remained uncertain.
From Science Daily
Perkins made a sparkling black cake and created a crater that was studded with pop rocks.
From Los Angeles Times
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