Crossword clues for mojave
mojave
- Setting for Joshua trees
- Desert with Joshua trees
- Santa Ana wind source
- A desert area in southern California
- The Yuman language spoken by the Mohave people
- A member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California
- Great Basin desert
- Needles, Calif., locale
- Calif. desert
- California desert
- Desert known for Joshua trees
- Where yucca palms grow
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Mohave, 1831, from native (Yuman) name, hamakhaav, perhaps containing aha "water."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1806
Land area (2000): 58.448170 sq. miles (151.380058 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 58.448170 sq. miles (151.380058 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48452
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 35.016867 N, 118.189145 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 93501
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mojave
Wikipedia
Mojave or Mohave most often refers to:
- Mojave Desert
- Mojave River
- Mohave people
Mojave or Mohave may also refer to:
Mojave is the seventh full-length album from alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.
Mojave is an acoustic and folk band fronted by Canadian singer-songwriters Lisa Jarvis and Paul Jarvis accompanied by a varying number of musicians, started in 2007.
Mojave is an impact crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars located at 7.5° N and 33.0° W. It is 58 km in diameter. It was named after a town in California, USA.
Located in the Xanthe Terra region, Mojave has alluvial fans that look remarkably similar to landforms in the Mojave Desert in the American southwest. Fans inside and around the outsides of the crater are closely similar to Earth's alluvial fans. As on Earth, the largest rocks are near the mouths of the fans. Because the channels start at ridge tops, it is believed they were formed by heavy downpours. Researchers have suggested that the rain may have been initiated by impacts.
Some parts of the crater display a high concentration of closely spaced pits. Pits show little or no evidence of rims or ejecta. The pits are so close to each other that adjacent pits often share the same wall. It is believed that the pits form from steam produced when the heat from the impact process interacts with ice in the ground.
Many craters once contained lakes. Because some crater floors show deltas, we know that water had to be present for some time. Dozens of deltas have been spotted on Mars. Deltas form when sediment is washed in from a stream entering a quiet body of water. It takes a bit of time to form a delta, so the presence of a delta is exciting; it means water was there for a time, maybe for many years. Primitive organisms may have developed in such lakes; hence, some craters may be prime targets for the search for evidence of life on the Red Planet.
The depth of Mojave is approximately 2,600 meters (1.63 miles). Based on its ratio of depth to diameter, researchers believe it is very young. It is not old enough to have accumulated much material and start to fill. Its relatively undegraded state helps scientists model impact processes on Mars. If one measures the diameter of a crater, the original depth can be estimated with various ratios. Because of this relationship, researchers have found that many Martian craters contain a great deal of material; much of it is believed to be ice deposited when the climate was different.
Mojave is a rayed crater, another indication of its youth, and is the largest such crater on Mars. Based on crater counts of its ejecta blanket, it is thought to be about 3 million years old. It is believed to be the most recent crater of its size on Mars, and has been identified as the probable source of the shergottite meteorites collected on Earth. However, the latter hypothesis is controversial.
Image:Wikimojave.jpg|Mojave Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Image:Alluvial Fans in Mojave Crater.jpg|Alluvial fans in Mojave, as seen by HiRISE. The crater rim is on the right. A branched network of channels runs downward towards the left. Image:Mojave Crater.jpg|Another view of Mojave from HiRISE. North is at bottom.
Mojave is a 2015 American crime thriller film written and directed by William Monahan. The film stars Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, Mark Wahlberg, Louise Bourgoin, and Walton Goggins.
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 18, 2015. The film was released on DirecTV Cinema on December 3, 2015, prior to opening in a limited release on January 22, 2016, by A24.
Usage examples of "mojave".
The humaniform robot face of Mojave Center Governor came on the video screen.
Mojave Center Governor sat in his office, deep in the underground city of Mojave Center.
However, he had learned that humans sometimes preferred doing business in an office, so he maintained a small room in Mojave Center for that purpose.
His favorites involved some sort of disaster that befell Mojave Center, requiring him to respond urgently under the Laws of Robotics to restore the situation to normal.
Suddenly he found himself standing in the main thoroughfare of Mojave Center, Antelope Valley Boulevard, with water a meter high pouring down the street.
A flash flood had taken place in the Mojave Desert above them, washing down from the San Gabriel Mountains to the south.
The top surface of Mojave Center, a large rectangle on the desert floor, was comprised mostly of solar cells, which provided power.
He had no way to prevent them from getting information from anywhere in the Mojave Center system, but he could stop accidental leaks of information.
They would merely have to call any human here in Mojave Center and ask him to pass the orders on to MC Governor.
If my functions are disrupted, harm may come to the human residents of Mojave Center.
In this one, a major earthquake has shaken the San Andreas Fault, roughly seventy kilometers west of Mojave Center.
Because of the danger of earthquakes in the region, Mojave Center had been designed and constructed as a self-contained, sealed unit.
After a simulated earthquake of nine on the Richter scale, Mojave Center has survived intact but has come to rest at a severe angle.
He threw it open with a clang and led the three humans out into the fresh, dry air of the Mojave Desert, where, blinking and squinting in the bright sunlight, they stumbled onto the shiny solar panels that lay on the top of the city.
The six component robots could not run the city of Mojave Center after they had separated.