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Usage examples of "caloris".
That's when Mercury took its biggest strike: the one which created the Caloris feature.
The teams had landed at the South Pole, where traces of water-ice had been detected, and at the Caloris Basin, the huge equatorial crater where - it was hoped - that ancient impact might have brought iron-rich compounds to the surface.
The Caloris Basin - an immense, ridged crater system - formed around the primary impact site.
Wu wanted Larionova to come to Caloris, to see for herself what had been found there.
And on Earth, whole phyla - groups of species - have emerged or declined over periods less than a tenth of the time since the Caloris Basin event.
The builders of the ship in Caloris must have had some form of major tool-wielding capability.
The teams had landed at the South Pole, where traces of water-ice had been detected, and at the Caloris Basin, the huge equatorial crater where—it was hoped—that ancient impact might have brought iron-rich compounds to the surface.
The Caloris Basin—an immense, ridged crater system—formed around the primary impact site.
And on Earth, whole phyla—groups of species—have emerged or declined over periods less than a tenth of the time since the Caloris Basin event.
And now they were converging even more tightly, flowing over the surface of Mercury in monorails or tractors or short-hop suborbit shuttles, gathering in the great basin of Caloris Planitia: the shattered ground where, under a high and unforgiving Sun, humans had burrowed in search of water.
But there were plans for the longer term—such as a Paulis mine at Caloris Planitia, the giant impact crater she’d observed from orbit.
She was poisoned with the juice of a rare herb which grows only on the slopes of the Caloris Montes.