Sentences with phrase «from near its south pole»

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, they caught two 124 - mile - tall geysers of water vapor spewing out over seven hours from near its south pole.

Not only are they both from Antarctica, but they are both from near the south pole.

Not exact matches

«We found that the coldest places near the moon's south pole are also the brightest places — brighter than we would expect from soil alone — and that might indicate the presence of surface frost,» said Elizabeth Fisher, the lead author of the study, published in Icarus.

An avalanche of data released from NASA's New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, show the dwarf planet has a pair of potentially volcanic mountains near its south pole.

This 500 - kilometer - wide ice ball shoots out large geysers of ice crystals, which apparently originate from underground lakes near the satellite's south pole.

IKI now has five lunar missions planned from 2018 to 2025, starting with Luna - 25, a spacecraft that would land near the moon's south pole.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapour erupting from the frigid surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, in one or more localised plumes near its south pole.

After Cassini's surprising discovery of a towering plume of icy spray in 2005, emanating from hot cracks near the south pole, scientists turned its detectors toward the small moon.

The finding implies the fine spray of water vapor, icy particles and simple organic molecules Cassini has observed coming from fractures near the moon's south pole is being fed by this vast liquid water reservoir.

The ice they carried would have vaporized from the impact, settling eventually in permanently shadowed craters near the north and south lunar poles, where the extreme cold (below — 400 degrees Fahrenheit, according to recent observations) would have preserved it almost indefinitely.

As MGS skimmed the planet from pole to pole, it tracked changes in carbon dioxide ice deposits near the south pole of Mars.

Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, shoots water near the farthest point in its orbit from Saturn, when the tidal forces cause cracks at the moon's south pole to open.

[F] or three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars» south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress.

Cassini has performed many flybys of Enceladus since arriving in the Saturn system in July 2004, sometimes even cruising through the plumes generated by the geysers, which erupt from «tiger stripe» fissures near the moon's south pole.

[F] or three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars» south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress.