Sentences with phrase «along one's orbit»

It returns to the same point on the planet multiple times but with a slightly different viewing geometry each time, because the spacecraft is moving along its orbit all the while.
Images of the sky are recorded about six months apart, during which time the perspective changes due to Earth's motion around the sun along its orbit, 186 million miles in diameter.
The solid exterior of the moon rotates as it's tugged along its orbit, but a liquid core, if present, would resist rotation.
Asteroids in the newly identified Karin cluster (blue dots) hurtle along orbits with similar sizes, shapes, and tilts, pointing to their origin in a recent impact.
With the interactive model, a viewer can pan, zoom, rotate and pause / activate the time evolution of movement along orbits.
«The most exciting thing we now see in the new observations is the head of the cloud coming back towards us at more than 10 million km / h along the orbit — about 1 % of the speed of light,» adds Reinhard Genzel, leader of the research group that has been studied this region for nearly twenty years.
Unlike the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the main belt of our solar system, which move cleanly along their orbits, active asteroids were discovered several years ago mimicking comets with their tails formed by calm, long lasting ice sublimation.
Much like the gravitational force of a planet on its star, neighboring planets can tug on one another causing one planet to accelerate and another planet to decelerate along its orbit.
As they drift along their orbits, some of their members escape the cluster, due to velocity changes in mutual closer encounters, tidal forces in the galactic gravitational field, and encounters with field stars and interstellar clouds crossing their way.
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