Sentences with phrase «by large moons»

Provided their spacecraft stays healthy and funded, the Juno team is contemplating additional measurements that could further probe Jupiter's interior, such as monitoring tidal bulges raised by large moons whipping around the planet.

Earth - like extrasolar planets could be suitable for life even if their rotation is not stabilized by a large moon

Not exact matches

The results are faux «crafty» beers like Blue Moon and Shock Top, which appear to be created by smalltime operations, while actually being produced by the world's largest brewers.

The crescent is very beautiful and perhaps that is all one like I am should or could see; but what I am afraid of, dear God, is that my self shadow will grow so large that it blocks the whole moon, and that I will judge myself by the shadow that is nothing.

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Chickpea and chorizo warm salad own creation, inspired by several recipes 1 teaspoon olive oil 70g diced chorizo 1/2 large onion, thinly sliced in half - moons 2 garlic cloves, minced 200g cooked chickpeas, rinsed and drained salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons sherry handful of fresh parsley leaves Heat the oil in a large nonstick frying pan over high heat.

The Certified Packaging Professional designation has been earned by Kimberly Moon, Atlanta branch of TricorBraun, one of North America's largest providers of rigid packaging.

Io, a name used for the largest moon of Jupiter, was in classic myth raped by Zeus and escaped from him by changing herself into a cow.

Another method, if one goal was to smooth out sudden generational shifts, would be to appoint some larger pool of full Justices, not acting as subs, but as a full rotating roster, [something like one of those watches or clocks that shows phases of the moon], advancing by one justice per trial.)

Other names had been used informally by the New Horizons science team to describe the many regions, mountain ranges, plains, valleys and craters discovered during the first close - up look at the surfaces of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

The study, published in the June 4 issue of the journal Nature, describes a system dominated by Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, which together form a «binary planet.»

But this time, instead of the Sun, the larger object is the Moon: Occasionally, the two line up in the sky providing us with this amazing view of objects that are actually separated by tens of millions of kilometers.

This set of three images shows views three seconds apart as the larger of Mars» two moons, Phobos, passed directly in front of the sun as seen by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

The result was taken by many to imply that complex life is rare in the universe, since Earth's large moon is thought to have coalesced from the debris of a freak collision between a Mars - sized planet and Earth.

Once the stresses and strains imposed by gravitational interactions with the Red Planet become large enough to break apart the moon's rocks — a threshold likely reached in the next 20 million to 40 million years, the team estimates — Phobos will be ripped apart quickly, probably in 40 days or less, the researchers report online today in Nature Geoscience.

Titan is Saturn's largest moon, a cryogenically cold world with a surface shaped by hydrocarbon rivers and seas fed by methane, ethane and complex organic compounds raining out of its thick, smoggy atmosphere.

But what sets it apart from other large moons is its atmosphere, discovered in 1944 by Gerard Kuiper.

Bizarre «plastic» dunes made sticky by static cling may cover the surface of Saturn's largest moon — and could threaten future missions there

In addition to its large moons, Saturn is attended by what Porco calls «flotsam» — dozens of small, irregularly shaped satellites notable mostly for their spectacular diversity.

We already knew that Saturn's biggest and brightest ring, the B ring, is kept in check by gravitational nudges from the large moon Mimas.

That's a region thousands of times larger than the full moon, but still much smaller than the one given by Fienga.

Large portions of the lunar surface remained unseen until 1990, when NASA's Galileo probe flew by the moon on its way to Jupiter, snapping detailed pictures of the lunar north pole with sensors that captured different wavelengths of light.

Now images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a large cloud of hydrogen and oxygen — most likely in the form of water vapour — extending from the moon's south pole.

The side of Pluto's largest moon viewed by NASA's passing New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015 is characterized by a system of «pull apart» tectonic faults, which are expressed as ridges, scarps and valleys — the latter sometimes reaching more than 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) deep.

DEEP DOWN One of the largest seas on Titan, Ligeia Mare, seen in this false - color radar image taken by the Cassini spacecraft, extends more than 200 meters below the moon's surface.

Missions to explore the oceans on Saturn's largest moon might have to contend with powerful currents driven by solar energy.

Today's great tasks are «as important as the Manhattan Project or getting a man to the moon,» said Isaacs, citing two technical triumphs achieved at high speed by large, goal - driven organizations.

Now researchers have built simulations of currents in the large seas in the moon's northern hemisphere, using maps created from radar data collected by the Cassini probe.

About 4,500 light - years away in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, the nebula is large enough to be visible through small telescopes; if it were bright enough in the visible spectrum it could be seen by the naked eye, occupying several times as much of the sky as the full moon.

This false - color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around hydrocarbon lakes at Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

He first used it to observe the moon and see the shadows cast by its mountains and craters; he went on to catalogue sunspots; and he discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — that are now known as the Galilean moons in his honor.

We knew that Saturn's B ring, its biggest and brightest, is kept in check by gravitational nudges from the large moon Mimas.

The largest lake on Saturn's moon Titan is as smooth as a mirror, varying in height by less than 3 millimetres, a new study shows.

The rings probably formed initially when a large moon came too close to Saturn and was ripped apart by gravitational forces.

The largest Jovian moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — were first discovered by Galileo in the early 1600s.

China planned to launch the Chang» e 5, a large unmanned spacecraft, to the moon by the end of this year.

«The sun began to be darkened by day and the moon by night, while the ocean was tumultuous with spray from the 24th of March in this year till the 24th of June in the following year... And, as the winter was a severe one, so much so that from the large and unwonted quantity of snow the birds perished... there was distress... among men... from the evil things» Zacharias of Mytilene (Chronicle, 9.19, 10.1)

Similar to the multibillion dollar satellite industry sparked by the launch of Sputnik, Diamandis envisions this prize as opening the door to industries that utilise the Moon's resources, including silicon for large - scale solar arrays, and water ice for oxygen and rocket fuel.

Forming stars, planets, moons, or meteoroids by capturing18 smaller orbiting bodies is far more difficult than most people realize.19 However, if gases are inside these spheres, capture becomes more likely, and the more particles captured, the larger the sphere of influence becomes.

© Estate of John Whatmough — larger image (Artwork from Extrasolar Visions, used with permission from Whatmough) Glowing red through gravitational contraction, the candidate brown dwarf companion to Proxima Centauri is depicted with two moons (one eclipsing the flare star) with distant Alpha Centauri A and B at upper right, as imagined by Whatmough.

Artistic representation of the triple asteroid system showing the large 270 - km asteroid Sylvia surrounded by its two moons, Romulus and Remus.

It had previously been proposed that the two small moons were either wandering asteroids that had been captured by Mars» gravitational influence, or satellites that had coalesced in the wake of a violent collision between the Red Planet and a large impactor.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft did a fly - by of Jupiter's second largest moon in 1996 and 1997 and found that Callisto's magnetic field varied, indicating currents.

Discovered in 1978 by the United States Naval Observatory, Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons and is only half the size of Pluto and one - eighth of its mass, with a surface dominated by a mixture of water ice and frozen ammonia.

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon as a circle of light is produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere.

«An analogy can be found by looking at Saturn, which has a tenuous but very large dust ring produced when meteoroids hit the outer moon called Phoebe,» Kalas said.

Kamuela, HI — Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main - belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, thanks to the presence of two moons orbiting the main asteroid, and probably linked to the way the multiple system was formed.

A dark red northern polar cap on Pluto's largest moon Charon may be caused by trapped gas, according to research published in Nature this week.

© John Whatmough — larger image (Artwork from Extrasolar Visions, used with permission) View of planet d from its cloud deck with rings, moons, star - like planets b and c, and ups And, as imagined by Whatmough.

In 2006, a small team of astronomers led by Franck Marchis, astronomer at the Carl Sagan center of the SETI Institute, detected the presence of a small 12 km diameter moon around the large Trojan asteroid (624) Hektor.