Sentences with phrase «icy particles as»

Alternatively, they posit that small, rubble - pile moonlets could be transporting the dense, icy particles as they migrate within the ring.

Not exact matches

But these spacecraft still must squint through the second of the sun's impacts, its bright illumination of icy and dusty particles around it, known as the zodiacal light.

«The icy small bodies warm up as they approach the Sun, and the ice sublimes to form a coma [a dense cloud of gas and dust particles around a nucleus] and often a tail, making the comets observable,» she explained.

Astronomers have detected such icy particles before, Watson says, «but what's new here is that we've seen them as definitely belonging to the proto - planetary system we're looking at.»

It also would be far easier to get a water sample from Enceladus, which has plumes of water vapor, ice and particles shooting more than 300 miles off its surface, than from other moons, such as Jupiter's Europa, where a massive ocean is believed to be buried beneath a thick icy crust.

Saturn's icy 246 - mile - wide moon Mimas (near lower left) appears tiny by comparison to the planet's rings, but scientists think the all of the small, icy particles spread over a vast area that comprise the rings are no more than a few times as massive as Mimas.

Using magic during combat also feels lackluster: unleashing an icy bolt to freeze enemies doesn't feel like you're doing much more than throwing an ice - cube at someone who mildly annoyed you, while setting foes alight with your Nova attack involves you creating what looks like a pile of gellatine at your feet before unleashing the attack which doesn't so much set fire to enemies as generate some weird particle effects.