enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mimas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas

    Mimas's most distinctive feature is a giant impact crater 139 km (86 mi) across, named Herschel after the discoverer of Mimas. Herschel's diameter is almost a third of Mimas's own diameter; its walls are approximately 5 km (3 mi) high, parts of its floor measure 10 km (6 mi) deep, and its central peak rises 6 km (4 mi) above the crater floor.

  3. Herschel (Mimantean crater) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_(Mimantean_crater)

    Herschel (/ ˈ h ɜːr ʃ əl /) is the largest impact crater on the Saturnian moon Mimas. It is located on Mimas's leading hemisphere, centered on the equator at 112° longitude . It is named after the 18th-century astronomer William Herschel , who discovered Mimas in 1789.

  4. List of geological features on Mimas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geological...

    This is a list of named geological features on Mimas, a moon that orbits the planet Saturn. Mimantean features are named after people and places in Arthurian legend or the legends of the Titans . The sole exception to this is Herschel Crater , named after William Herschel , the astronomer who discovered Mimas in 1789.

  5. Geography of Colorado - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Colorado

    The borders of Colorado are now officially defined by 697 boundary markers connected by straight boundary lines. [3] Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah are the only states that have their borders defined solely by straight boundary lines with no natural features. [4] The southwest corner of Colorado is the Four Corners Monument at 36°59'56"N, 109°2 ...

  6. List of Colorado municipalities by elevation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Colorado...

    The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m). The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado

  7. Geology of Colorado - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Colorado

    The Colorado Province took shape as a mobile belt—an area of thinner, orogeny related continental crust lacking the deep "keel" of rock, which stabilized the neighboring Wyoming Craton and other cratons like it. Throughout Colorado's geologic history, rocks have often been deformed, metamorphosed and overprinted, obscuring the ancient record.

  8. List of mountain ranges of Colorado - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountain_ranges_of...

    All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.

  9. La Garita Caldera - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Garita_Caldera

    The La Garita Caldera is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada from 40 to 18 million years ago, and was the site of massive eruptions about 28.01 ± 0.04 million years ago, during the Oligocene Epoch.