Sentences with phrase «airless bodies»

The lack of buffering is why airless bodies and the skins of spacecraft display much greater temperature variations than the surface of planets like the Earth.

Review of Theories of Moon - Forming Impact (Planetary Science Institute) Big Bang, New Moon (SwRI) Planetary climatic and dynamic factors that convert solid, airless bodies into worlds suitable for life (Dr. Darren Williams - Penn State) Do We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs?

But it is not clear how common ice might be in the main asteroid belt, because sunlight is expected to quickly vaporise ice on the surfaces of airless bodies that fly closer to the sun than Jupiter.

But those scenarios don't explain how unexpectedly far - reaching flows occur on the moon or other dry, largely airless bodies in our solar system, researchers say.

but even an airless body like the moon has some surface heat capacity and the rate of temperature decrease will decrease rapidly with decreasing temperature and not nearly as far as the CMB (Stefan - Boltzmann does apply here).

Not exact matches

Although traveling between these airless, rocky bodies on a rocket - propelled zip line would certainly be thrilling, it would be a long trip; according to NASA, they're usually separated by at least 620,000 miles.

An airless planet (oid) is a gray body and Stefan - Boltzmann applies.