Sentences with phrase «ancient than the planet»

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While all the planets orbiting the sun closer than this tilted blue giant have been known to humans since ancient times, Uranus wasn't spotted until William Herschel saw it in 1781.

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The scientists found ripple patterns in ancient rocks that are slightly smaller than the ones found across the planet today.

Those findings suggest the rings are probably the remnants of at least one moon, rather than ancient remains of the stuff that formed the planet.

For the first time, NASA is finally venturing out, visiting one of the oldest objects in the solar system — older than the planets themselves — and returning home with a piece of that ancient history.

A new study led by Northern Illinois University geography professor Wei Luo calculates the amount of water needed to carve the ancient network of valleys on Mars and concludes the Red Planet's surface was once much more watery than previously thought.

The oldest rocks so far identified on Earth are one - half billion years younger than the planet itself, so geologists have relied on certain crystals as micro-messengers from ancient times.

Once the heartland of the vast Maya civilization, Belize has more ancient Maya sites than anywhere else on the planet.

All this plus more ancient Maya cities than anywhere else on the planet, and it's easy to see why Belize is such a popular travel destination.

Of course there is more to Jack than meets the eye and he wants to open an ancient vault that will allow him to more or less destroy everything and everyone or at least control the planet.

On this planet, the atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth's — a very different situation from the ancient past, when geological evidence shows that water used to flow on the surface more than 4.5 billion years ago.

In December 1997, at an International Climate Summit in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto, more than 100 nations agreed to reduce the emissions of heat - trapping gases that can warm the planet.