Sentences with phrase «icy planets in our solar system»

With the icy planets in our solar system, «ice» refers to hydrogen molecules connected to lighter elements, such as carbon, oxygen and / or nitrogen.

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Former astronaut John Grunsfeld added, «I think we're one generation away in our solar system, whether it's on an icy moon or on Mars, and one generation [away] on a planet around a nearby star»...

Astronomers will be searching for direct evidence of a ninth planet in the far reaches of the solar system; its existence was inferred this year from its gravitational effects on icy objects beyond Pluto.

They found the object was the same colour as some of the icy minor planets they had been studying in the outskirts of our solar system.

One of our solar system's five dwarf planets, Makemake — an icy, 1400 - kilometer - wide orb that circles the sun far beyond Pluto — was discovered in 2005.

New Horizons» flyby of the dwarf planet and its five known moons is providing an up - close introduction to the solar system's Kuiper Belt, an outer region populated by icy objects ranging in size from boulders to dwarf planets.

In an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy giant planets of our solar system, scientists were able to observe «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditionIn an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy giant planets of our solar system, scientists were able to observe «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditionin high - pressure conditions.

Based on the distance from the central star and the distribution of tiny dust grains, the baby planet is thought to be an icy giant, similar to Uranus and Neptune in our Solar System.

The club of «ocean worlds» — icy moons or planets with subsurface oceans in common parlance — gains new members with each new mission to the outer solar system.

The icy fragments would have encircled the solar system's second largest planet as rings and eventually spalled off small moons of their own that are still there today, says Robin Canup, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo..

Although Earth developed life based on carbon - rich molecules, the planet is surprisingly deficient in carbon relative to the Sun and the outer Solar System, where carbon is thousands of times more abundant in comets relative to the amount of silicon that each icy body contains.

Although Kargel's research focused on the icy moons of the outer solar system, his interest was piqued when he saw what he thought was a network of sinuous channels meandering through the Argyre impact basin, a region in the southern highlands of the red planet.

The moons that orbit the planets in our solar system fall into two categories: icy or rocky.

In an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy giant planets of our solar system, scientists observed «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditionIn an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy giant planets of our solar system, scientists observed «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditionin high - pressure conditions.

Aug. 22, 2017 - In an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy giant planets of our solar system, scientists observed «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditionIn an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy giant planets of our solar system, scientists observed «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditionin high - pressure conditions.

«By studying Saturn's moon Titan, which although being an icy moon can be considered something like the Solar System's rocky planets, we have discovered rainstorms produced by methane rather than water, and we have found that Titan's meteorology has things in common with Earth's tropics,» said Del Genio.