Sentences with phrase «blasted by cosmic rays»
Trailing Earth's orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock - outs during its nine years in flight, from mechanical failures to being blasted by cosmic rays.
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«The surface of Mars, the surface of Earth, and basically all surfaces in the solar system are being bombarded by cosmic rays,» explains Farley, and when these rays — very high - energy protons — blast into an atom, the atom's nucleus shatters, creating isotopes of other elements.
The material blasted out by an exploding star moves so quickly that it creates a shock wave which can accelerate protons and form cosmic rays.