Photographs showing the impact of a solid sphere on (top) a low and (bottom) a high density granular suspension.

From the article:

Unifying Impacts in Granular Matter from Quicksand to Cornstarch
J. John Soundar Jerome, Nicolas Vandenberghe, and Yoël Forterre
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 098003 (2016)

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