Sentences with phrase «icy material from»

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It is a giant swarm of icy objects believed to be material left over from the formation of the solar system.

Astronomers believe this region, called the Oort cloud, contains a vast collection of icy debris left over from material that came together to form the sun, Earth, and the other major planets 4.6 billion years ago.

And while material spewing from the icy visitor probably won't trigger the colossal meteor showers on the Red Planet that some scientists predicted, dust and water vapor may still slam into Mars, briefly heating up its atmosphere and threatening orbiting spacecraft.

Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team, says the ring pictures may even help us figure out how Earth formed: «If we understand how icy particles in the outer solar system behave, then we can refine our understanding of how the early solar system formed from that same 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.

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.

For example, the spacecraft spotted geysers of water vapor and other material blasting from the south pole of the icy moon Enceladus.

(4) Does the «typical» circumstellar disk states of primary star + Kuiper Belt Star show evidence for material from each of the different kinds of small outer solar system bodies (Comets, Centaurs, KBOs) like the active comet debris in HR4796A and the icy KBO debris in Fomalhaut and HD 32297?

The two researchers racked their brains to come up with materials that might explain the new spectroscopic feature, and then tested everything from sodium chloride to Drano in Hand's lab at JPL, where he tries to simulate the environments found on various icy worlds.

These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

She always seemed so detached from the material, as though her icy demeanor was not just a character choice but a way of deflecting the material.

From the Icy Crystal Santa's Gifts Collection Features beautiful formations of dendrites with the elegance of ice sculptures Dimensions: 6 «H. Material (s): acrylic Pack includes 18 of the item shown