Sentences with phrase «dense atmosphere»

Scientists have argued that the sun's gravitational pull on the planet's very dense atmosphere could have caused strong atmospheric tides.

The second step is the photodissociation of the ozone molecule formed by the three body collision which is too improbable to occur in the less dense atmosphere of the mesosphere.

The close - up view emphasizes the distinct colored layers of the nitrogen haze for which the moon's uniquely dense atmosphere is known.

«Titan's dense atmosphere just makes everything more difficult.

In size, density, and composition, Venus is the most Earth - like planet in the solar system, but it is a hellish domain: Ground temperatures settle around 860 degrees Fahrenheit beneath a crushingly dense atmosphere laced with a sulfuric acid haze.

The hood was also designed to accommodate a new cold - air intake, which provides nice dense atmosphere to the turbo 2.0 - liter inline four - cylinder engine, adding a few ponies in the process.

Titan has an incredibly dense atmosphere that once shrouded its surface in mystery.

Since space is mostly empty, when the ionizing radiation from space encounters the very dense atmosphere of the Earth it is steadily absorbed until very little of it is observed beyond a certain altitude.

Venus, on the other hand, has a very dense atmosphere that traps solar radiation; the average temperature on Venus is about 864 F (462 C).

Hurricane - force winds resonate across the rusty deserts of Mars, although they generate only about as much noise as a modest breeze blowing through Earth's far denser atmosphere.

Depending on whether you're landing on a planet or a moon that has no atmosphere, a thin atmosphere, or a dense atmosphere, and depending on whether you're reentering with no payload in the front, a small payload, or a heavy payload, you have to balance the rocket out as it's coming in.

And then any place that doesn't have a dense atmosphere, you can't use parachutes.

A dense atmosphere like Earth's is relatively rare in our solar system because an object has to be sufficiently massive to have enough gravity to hold onto it.

The behavior of a dense atmosphere is driven by collisions between its atoms and molecules.

Grinspoon envisions a balloon - borne craft that would drift through Venus's dense atmosphere, sniffing the gases throughout its journey to gather data about the planet's climatic history.

A magnetic field and dense atmosphere could shield against the effect of these harmful rays.

Unique among solar system moons, it alone has a dense atmosphere — one so thick with salmon - colored hydrocarbon smog that it had resisted all previous attempts to obtain surface images.

It is the only moon in the solar system to have a dense atmosphere that resembles the early terrestrial atmosphere.

In 2009 MEarth found its first planet, Gliese 1214b; earlier this year, scientists using the Hubble telescope analyzed the planet's light and concluded that it has a dense atmosphere made up largely of water vapor, though the planet is far too hot to support Earth - like life.

Tomasko was tantalized by Titan's dense atmosphere and luxuriously low gravity: «It would be a wonderful place to explore with a balloon.»

Indeed, a study in 2006 suggested that Mars may have gone through an acidic phase, triggered by active volcanism, after an early period in which it had a denser atmosphere and large bodies of neutral - pH water on its surface.

At another extreme, Saturn's giant moon Titan seems more like a planet in its own right, larger than Mercury and cloaked in a dense atmosphere.

It has been a big mystery as to when and how Mars lost its dense atmosphere.

The research team concluded that Mars had a dense atmosphere 4 billion years ago.

To keep Mars warm requires a dense atmosphere with a sufficient greenhouse effect, while the present - day Mars has a thin atmosphere whose surface pressure is only 0.006 bar, resulting in the cold climate it has today.

These missions will reveal how the dense atmosphere on ancient Mars predicted in this study was removed over time.

«Meteorite tells us that Mars had a dense atmosphere 4 billion years ago.»

Their gravity then pulled in gas from their birth nebula, giving them dense atmospheres.

With Titan's dense atmosphere and low gravity, flight is substantially easier than on Earth, giving Dragonfly a very broad range of capability.

Only radio waves can break through our dense atmosphere, so it wasn't until the launch of NASA's state - of - the - art Chandra X-ray Observatory two years ago that scientists were able to get a look at the x-rays coming from Sagittarius A-star.

Mars also had a magnetic field at least 4 billion years ago, but the red planet somehow lost its dense atmosphere and became a barren world.

A warm, wet Mars requires a dense atmosphere that filters out the ultraviolet light making the unique isotope shifts disappear.

Titan — Saturn's largest moon — is remarkable in that it features a dense atmosphere and stable liquid at the surface.

Titan is the only satellite in the known solar system with a dense atmosphere.

The following questions arise, «Why did Mars lose its water and dense atmosphere?»

If humans land on Mars, they'll need to bring quite a bit of luggage and, without a dense atmosphere to provide friction, it'll be very difficult to slow this heavier payload.

What is the solar system moon with the densest atmosphere?

Sunlight passes through the atmosphere to heat the surface of the planet, but this solar heat is trapped by the dense atmosphere instead of radiating back out to space as efficiently as it does on Earth.

«These radio - telescope images confirm that Betelgeuse — already more than 600 times larger than our Sun — has a dense atmosphere that extends to many times larger still than the star itself,» said Lim.