... plains tend to dominate, while a short distance away drifts of regolith have formed ... Viking Lander 2 used its sampler arm to dig these two trenches in the regolith . ...
... consists of occasional large impacts and the continued formation of the regolith ... major surface materials have been studied: the regolith, the maria, and the terrae ... pulverized the surface rocks into a fine-grained debris called the regolith ...
... In general, such patterns can be explained in terms of greater exposure of fresher rock in the brighter bluish areas and the accumulation of some regolith materials in the darker reddish areas. ...
... Some of the craters appear to have been covered by a layer of regolith (soil and broken rock). Tomorrow's picture: The Rolling Hills of Ganymede . ...
... After that, only the steady rain of impactors produced any change, creating a five-meter cover of regolith on top of the lava flows, and adding, as well, to the regolith that had been forming on the mountain slopes. ...
... of what is sometimes called "instant rock" or, more formally, "regolith breccia" - and, twenty years after the mission, Schmitt believes that the Van Serg impactor hit an unusually thick layer of regolith built up by the overlapping ejecta blankets of ...