Sentences with phrase «during each orbit around»

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But during its 37 orbits around Jupiter, Juno will be exposed to the equivalent of 100 million dental X-rays, said Bill McAlpine, radiation control manager for the mission.

Unlike Saturn's bright rings, which are made almost entirely of ice particles, Mars's rocky ring will be dark and largely invisible from Earth, although the cloud of orbiting Phobos bits will at first be dense enough to cast a shadow on the Red Planet's surface during some parts of the planet's orbit around the sun, the researchers say.

During its 14 months in orbit around Vesta, the spacecraft delivered unprecedented scientific insights, including images of its cratered surface and important clues about its geological history.

During a busy first year in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft got its first close - up look at the ringed planet's sixth - largest moon, Enceladus — and wowed scientists in the process.

Maybe an intervening cloud or dense sheet of this material blocks a shifting fraction of light as Kepler's line of sight passes through different parts of it during the telescope's orbit around the sun.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

This image was taken in 1996, at a range of 677,000 kilometers (417,900 miles) by the solid state imaging television camera onboard the Galileo spacecraft during its second orbit around Jupiter.

The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) instrument captured this infrared radiation during Venus Express's night - time orbits around the planet's southern hemisphere.

Because the icy moon is not perfectly spherical — and because it goes slightly faster and slower during different portions of its orbit around Saturn — the giant planet subtly rocks Enceladus back and forth as it rotates.

The 20,000 - year cycle is driven by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun, which affects the amount of sunlight received during any particular season.

During the relatively brief, combined giant phases of the two stars at present, however, a planet could orbit the Aab pair far enough out for the two stars to act as a single gravitational source and near enough for it to receive enough energy to sustain life, possibly around 12.5 AUs out from the binary.

Astronomers watched an exoplanet called HD 80606b heat up and cool off during its sizzling - hot orbit around its star....

Earlier this summer, the spacecraft made its first full orbit around the gas giant — the first of 36 planned flybys during the 20 - month mission — flying 2,500 miles above the planet's dense clouds.

Cassini took nearly a half - million images during its mission, which included more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn, a tour that repeatedly took the probe by the moons Titan and Enceladus, two places scientists are eager to send another spacecraft in the search for microbial life.

What Rhoden's team observed in their study was that during this process, several models predict that Charon's orbit around Pluto could have been highly eccentric, which would have caused severe tides on both celestial bodies, possibly leading to the formation of underground oceans of liquid water, similar to those that probably exist inside Europa.

On December 1, 2009, two astronomers submitted a pre-print suggesting that the planet's extreme axial tilt (an obliquity of 97 degrees) may have resulted from the presence of a large moon that has since been ejected from orbit around the ice giant by the pull of another planet during the orbital migration of the giant planets early in the formation of the Solar System.

Much of the contemporary art created by young artists during the Bush years is also locked tightly in orbit around Modernism's collapsed star.

This theory stipulates that changes in Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun (eccentricity), changes in the direction in which our axis points (precession) and changes in the tilt of the earth itself (obliquity)-- known as Milankovitch Cycles — should contribute to changes in climate because of the different amounts of solar insolation received during these changes.

There was another version of the paper which showed the orbit of the sun around the SSB during the recent Grand Minima and the current one and the stable period from 2085, but i can't find it again.

The initial changes in temperature during this period are explained by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun, which affects the amount of seasonal sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.

During the glacial cycles of the past 800,000 years both CO2 and methane have acted as important amplifiers of the climate changes triggered by variations in Earth's orbit around the Sun.