Sentences with phrase «denser than the moon»

Unlike the Moon, the surface of Mercury has a slightly pinkish cast, and the planet is much denser than the Moon (5.3 versus 3.3 gm / cm3).

Not exact matches

Rock fragments will clump at the base, and because they are denser than the ice - rock mixture beneath, would slowly sink to the core of a moon.

For years, many scientists leaned toward a large mass, greater than that of Saturn's moon Mimas, because of the opaque, dense appearance of Saturn's primary ring, the B ring.

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.

The moons small density will have an effect on the surface of the planet as water is denser than land and has elasticity to it.

However, if we add the solar wind and moon slow stipping of the atmosphere, which show that atmosphere must have been denser in the past than now, a simpler and more logical explaination, that the giant flying critters could fly due to the denser atmosphere then extant, is warrented.

This, plus some stripping away from the gravitational effects of the moon, strongly suggests that the atmosphere formerly used to be denser than it is now.