Sentences with phrase «from other planetary bodies»

Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments — like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks — have always been done on Earth.

Not exact matches

But NASA's planetary protection office, charged with keeping earthly microbes from colonizing other bodies, has said it may nix a visit.

Planetary scientists have long known that Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, thanks to constant gravitational tugs from Jupiter and its other moons that churn Io's interior.

The scope of COSPAR comprises space studies of the Earth's surface, meteorology and climate; space studies of the Earth - Moon system and other bodies of the solar system, including the search for evidence of life in the solar system; study of planetary atmospheres including those of the ever - expanding inventory of exoplanets; space plasmas in the solar system; research in astrophysics from space; life sciences as related to space; materials sciences in space; and fundamental physics in space.

The constantly changing Solar System Barycentre varies from being just «the other side» of the solar core to a solar radius outside the Sun's surface, introducing rapidly changing accelerations from planetary bodies at varying latitudes and longitudes around the Solar body.