Crossword clues for cratering
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vb. (present participle of crater English)
Usage examples of "cratering".
Look, Paula, the nature of the impacting bolide determines the cratering profile.
Smaller stones fell every day, so that oldest surfaces on Mars are saturated with cratering, the landscape a palimpsest of newer rings obscuring older ones, with no patch of land untouched.
The southern highlands were wildly pocked in every direction, with the raw, primordial, lunar look that saturation cratering always had.
After the wild cratering of the highlands, the basin floor seemed smooth indeed, a flat yellowish plain bounded by the big curve of rim ridges.
Pretty clever how they did it, too-instead of just cratering the runway, which would have made it easy for Chinese engineers to repair, they stripped out sections of runway, buried stolen bombs in it, then cemented trucks over the bombs.
On the lowlands the cratering density is much less, and there is a peak size of crater of around forty miles diameter.
But on Titan, with its thick atmosphere, you'll have something more like the cratering process on Venus.
He yanked a cratering charge off the belt of the trooper who was shoveling dirt with his armored gauntlets.
The suits were in place with their deception holograms on, waiting for orders to trigger their cratering charges.
On the south end of the bridge, an M-9 armored combat engineer vehicle, called an ACE, was cutting a hasty anti-vehicle ditch on either side of the roadway leading up to the bridge, while a squad of her people finished emplacing a cratering charge on the roadway itself.
The cratering charge on the southern approach to the bridge is in place and ready, but the anti-tank ditch extended to the riverbank won't be finished for at least another half hour.
We'll have to set off the cratering charge, then go back and lay the mines.
Smaller stones fell every day, so that oldest surfaces on Mars are saturated with cratering, the landscape a palimpsest of newer rings obscuring older ones, with no patch of land untouched.
The southern highlands were wildly pocked in every direction, with the raw, primordial, lunar look that saturation cratering always had.
After the wild cratering of the highlands, the basin floor seemed smooth indeed, a flat yellowish plain bounded by the big curve of rim ridges.