Sentences with phrase «ice chunks orbiting»

Data from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit since 2004, may help resolve a decades - long debate over the age of Saturn's rings, wide belts of shiny ice chunks orbiting the planet.

But the 1992 discovery of Kuiper Belt Objects, a collection of nearly planet - sized ice chunks orbiting at the fringes of the solar system, suggested to many astronomers that the inventory was incomplete.

Not exact matches

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — The comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, which the Rosetta spacecraft is now orbiting, is by all accounts a fascinating chunk of dust and ice.

O'Donoghue and his colleagues» calculations showed that these dark bands are magnetically linked with the densest and most brilliant of Saturn's rings, which are made of orbiting chunks of ice and water vapour.

Sure enough, the team's calculations showed that the dark bands are magnetically linked with the densest and most brilliant of Saturn's rings, which are made of orbiting chunks of ice and water vapour.