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The variation ("polymorphism", in this case, a "color morph") most commonly found is pure blue, dark blue, or light blue, although observers find the aqua, purple, or orange variation throughout the ocean. These sea stars may grow up to 30 cm (11.8 in) in diameter, with rounded tips at each of the arms; some individuals may bear lighter or ...
Rheasilvia / ˌ r iː ə ˈ s ɪ l v i ə / is the largest impact crater on the asteroid Vesta. It is 505 km (314 mi) in diameter, which is 90% the diameter of Vesta itself, and is 95% the mean diameter of Vesta, 529 km (329 mi).
The most prominent of these surface features are two enormous impact basins, the 500-kilometre (311 mi)-wide Rheasilvia, centered near the south pole; and the 400 km (249 mi) wide Veneneia. The Rheasilvia impact basin is younger and overlies the Veneneia. [75] The Dawn science team named the younger, more prominent crater Rheasilvia, after the ...
What Makes Coligny Beach’s Water So Blue? The sand on Hilton Head Island is bright white, blissfully soft, and very fine, and the water is shallow, especially at low tide.
After his neighbors spearheaded an effort to deny his request to build a larger house on a narrow lot, this man built a 10-foot-wide, 1,547-square-foot tiny home to spite them. Now he's selling ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:09, 26 October 2011: 1,170 × 1,026 (198 KB): Kwamikagami (talk | contribs) {{Information |Description = Colorized shaded-relief map showing identification of older 375-kilometer-wide impact basin beneath more recent Rheasilvia impact structure.
Built in 1929, Ocean House—later called simply the Beach House—was a hot spot on Santa Monica's Gold Coast in the 1930s and 1940s, as William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies entertained Hollywood's elite at Davies' 5-acre (20,000 m 2) estate. [2]
It is found in various habitats including beaches during very low tides, and at depths down to about 500 m (1,600 ft). Also known as the vermilion sea star, it is the type species of the genus Mediaster and was first described in 1857 by the American zoologist William Stimpson. [2]