Sentences with phrase «hotter than the moon»

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«Earth's hottest, most buoyant mantle plumes draw from a primordial reservoir older than the moon.»

Because Earth and the moon were tidally locked from the beginning, the still hot Earth — more than 2500 degrees Celsius — radiated towards the near side of the moon.

A team led by Kaveh Pahlevan at Yale University calculate that as rock vapour rose from Earth's hot, roiling surface, the magnesium oxide it contained would have condensed into droplets and rained back to the surface more readily than the more volatile iron oxide, which could then have mixed into the moon - forming disc (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, DOI: 10.1016 / j.epsl.2010.10.036).

The geometry of Enceladus's orbit means this hot water moves more towards the moon's poles than elsewhere, thinning the underside of the ice in both spots.

Ice on Mars, the Moon, and certainly on hot Mercury, should disappear faster than comets deposit it today.

Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 novels, including The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, A Nantucket Christmas, Island Girls, Summer Breeze, Heat Wave, Beachcombers, Summer House, Moon Shell Beach, and The Hot Flash Club.

Other watch - from - shore hot spots include the headlands in Montara and Half Moon Bay (both less than 45 minutes drive south of San Francisco).

The surface of the Moon, having no appreciable atmosphere, gets far hotter than the Earth for the same exposure time to the Sun.

This heat builds up after several decades and releases that excess over the following decades: cold then hot, cold again then hot again, these synods, also called grand planetary alignments, are of different strengths due to the varying perihelia and aphelia of the four gas giants, especially Jupiter which is the closest to the Sun and more massive than all other Solar System's planets and moons combined.