Sentences with phrase «icy material»

The amount of water suggests that the planet actually developed far away from the star, where it was bombarded by a lot of icy material.

The mysterious bright spot on the dwarf planet Ceres has been revealed in its highest resolution yet, and the bright materials in it appear to be coming from a fractured dome — a possible portal to icy materials in the subsurface.

Perhaps icy material from the rings fell onto them, piling up near the equator to form the ridges.

The jets also supply icy material to one of Saturn's rings.

The existence of so many more long - period comets than predicted suggests that more of them have likely impacted planets, delivering icy materials from the outer reaches of the solar system.

This likely cryovolcano, a volcano formed bythe gradual accumulation of thick, slowly flowing icy materials, has prominent bright streaks on its flanks.

In contrast to the carbon - rich icy material found in other double star systems, the planetary material identified in the SDSS 1557 system has a high metal content, including silicon and magnesium.

Philae's job is to sample the pristine icy material, looking for clues to the origins of Earth's oceans and of life itself.

The Cassini spacecraft detected the hydrogen in the plume of gas and icy material spraying from Enceladus during its last, and deepest, dive through the plume on Oct. 28, 2015.

The vast fountains of icy material erupting from Enceladus's south pole enthralled planetary scientists when they were first spotted in images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005.

Jupiter may have seeded early Earth with icy materials, and later shielded us from devastating comet collisions, yet Jupiter itself is largely a cipher.

Many parts of Europa's surface show evidence of extension, where wide bands miles wide formed as the surface ripped apart and fresh icy material from the underlying shell moved into the newly created gap — a process akin to seafloor spreading on Earth.

The team found that, at the high pressures expected in the moon's ocean, icy materials called clathrates could form that imprison methane molecules within a crystal structure of water ice.

Because a comet's nucleus is made up of a combination of icy materials and loosely consolidated «dirt,» when a comet is heated by passing close to the Sun, it more or less slowly disintegrates, producing the visible tail.

The icy materials in 67P will vaporise, emitting gas and dust in a tail that will trail for thousands of kilometres and be observed by Rosetta.

The harpoons are to puncture harder, icy materials, and the screws are to burrow into the surface if it is softer.

But if a planet like Jupiter were to move too close to the sun, the heat would remove the icy material in its clouds.

«The time it takes to swing around the star is so quick that there isn't time to remove all the icy materials that make the atmosphere so reflective.»

Cassini is scheduled to make a close flyby of Enceladus on Oct. 28, in the mission's deepest - ever dive through the moon's active plume of icy material.