Sentences with phrase «airless surface»

Mercury's bleak, airless surface is similar to the moon's, so scientists have long been puzzled why the planet reflects so much less light than our lunar satellite.

«The best place to answer those questions is on the moon,» he explains, given that its airless surface contains the scarcely altered imprints of 4.5 billion years of solar system history.

Not exact matches

Airless paint sprayers are great for painting large surface areas because they use pressure to pump out droplets of paint in an even coat over any surface.

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.

In the airless lunar environment, the objects fell together and struck the lunar surface simultaneously, mirroring Galileo's experiment.

Although its surface is an airless landscape of cracked ice, all the evidence says that beneath that bleak shell is a liquid water ocean stretching hundreds of kilometres down to the rocky mantle below.

Even though density measurements suggest that Ceres is roughly one third water by weight, water ice should rapidly sublimate away into space on the dwarf planet's airless, sun - soaked surface, so its absence at first would seem to be no surprise.

Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.

Squeezed by 1.5 times Earth's atmospheric pressure yet buoyant under one - seventh Earth's gravity, humans on its surface would feel more like divers under an ocean than astronauts on exposed airless rocks in space.

As tides raised by Jupiter in Europa's ocean rise and fall, they may cause cracking, additional heating, and even venting of water vapor into the airless sky above Europa's icy surface.

You should spray these painted surfaces with a top coat whether it be the spray cans or your own hvlp sprayer (please don't use an airless sprayer if your trying to get personal results (these are made for large areas outside such as fences and not for fine woodwork).

On the surface, Katherine (Florence Pugh), the young wife slowly being suffocated by her airless existence inside a country manor house in 1860s England, would seem to have little in common with the villainess of Shakespeare's classic play.

The colour closes down the space in the paintings, making the surfaces insistent and airless - or, in Ofili's case, heady and atmospheric.

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).

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.

On the surface of the airless Moon sits a box of ordinary Earth - air at standard temperature and pressure.

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