Sentences with phrase «most larger moons»

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A small scope also will show Titan, Saturn's largest and most intriguing moon.

It completed 294 orbits of Saturn, discovered six named moons and made 162 close, deliberate flybys of the ringed planet's largest and most interesting moons.

Io, the large moon closest to Jupiter, is the solar system's most volcanically active world.

A few million years later, once the debris disk had dissipated, the tidal effects of Mars brought most of these satellites back down onto the planet, including the very large moon.

Now images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a large cloud of hydrogen and oxygen — most likely in the form of water vapour — extending from the moon's south pole.

Charon is one of the larger bodies in the Kuiper Belt, and has a wealth of geological features, as well as a collection of craters similar to those seen on most moons.

Scientists have lavished the most attention on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, a 3,200 - mile - wide world covered with a thick, hazy atmosphere.

To help settle the question, astronomer Donald Campbell of Cornell University and his team trained the world's most powerful radio observatory — the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico — on the moon's south pole, particularly its large Shackleton Crater, searching for signs of water like those detected on Mercury and elsewhere.

That helps explain why Titan, Saturn's largest and most exotic moon, has planetary scientists so excited.

Despite being cold enough to be covered in layers of sulphur dioxide frost, this large inner moon of Jupiter is the most volcanic world known, spitting out 100 times as much lava as all Earth's volcanoes can muster, from a surface area just 1 / 12th the size.

Unlike its sibling moons, Callisto has no large - scale processes for erasing craters; some may fade as the underlying ice evaporates, but most simply sit on top of earlier scars.

Forming stars, planets, moons, or meteoroids by capturing18 smaller orbiting bodies is far more difficult than most people realize.19 However, if gases are inside these spheres, capture becomes more likely, and the more particles captured, the larger the sphere of influence becomes.

Perhaps Cassini's most detailed look came after releasing the Huygens lander toward Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean — most likely water — swirling around below the surface.

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has finally received names for its most distinguishing features.

Saturn's largest moon Titan is one of the most promising worlds in the solar system in the search for alien life.

They forced Galileo to spend most of its time observing the four largest of Jupiter's 67 moons rather than the planet itself.

NASA has just released two spectacular flyover videos, of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, created from the New Horizons data offering us the most intimate look yet at our distant icy friends.

Only slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.

As a result, Vesta «differentiated» into a relatively dense metallic core (of approximately 136 miles or 220 kilometers across), lighter mantle, and crust, like the rocky inner planets, many large planetary satellite's like the Earth's Moon, and probably most, if not all, of the newly named «dwarf planets» like Ceres.

Also, the rocks astronauts brought back from the Moon have identical oxygen and titanium isotopic ratios as those on Earth.78 If large impactors came from Earth, most moonquakes should be on the near side.

The 5.1 mix, in Dolby Digital and DTS options on the same platter, is loud (particularly in DTS) yet ineffectual, though it does sport a few room - rattling moments, like the lassoing of the moon; as with most comedy soundtracks, it's monophonic in nature for large chunks of the running time.

This portable dog playpen from YoYo Moon is 46» wide by 30» high, so it's perfect for larger dogs that don't fit in most playpens or putting in several pets who get along together.

Last year GTA benefited from increasing interest in Sun Moon Lake — Taiwan's largest natural body of fresh water with a cycling trail dubbed «one of the most beautiful in the world» by CNN — and Kenting, on Taiwan's tropical southernmost tip, home to fossilised coral cliffs, living reefs and diverse marine life and migratory birds.

Perhaps one of the largest and most notorious parties on the planet, the monthly Full Moon Party on the island of Koh Phangan in Thailand ranks high in hedonism.

Moon Palace Cancun Recognized as the largest, most - secluded, self - contained resort, this all - inclusive property is situated on 123 acres, surrounded by natural jungle foliage.