Sentences with phrase «icy surface at»

The prime mission plan includes 40 to 45 flybys, during which the spacecraft would image the moon's icy surface at high resolution and investigate its composition and the structure of its interior and icy shell.

Not exact matches

Designed for wearing at work but flexible enough for a quick hike around town as well, the Santiago shoes use materials made mostly of leather with a rubber sole that can handle slick icy surfaces.

A strong sun will melt surface snow, which then refreezes at night into an icy crust, off of which the next layer of snow can easily slip.

«I try to imagine how it would be to stand on the surface of this icy object — small enough that a fast sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space — and stare up at a 20 - kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the Moon.»

Last year, scientists predicted that some of the material spewed out into space by the icy geysers at Enceladus's south pole would slowly fall down to certain areas on the surface.

Here is what scientists think is happening: when Ceres swings through the part of its orbit that is closer to the sun, a portion of its icy surface becomes warm enough to cause water vapor to escape in plumes at a rate of about 6 kilograms (13 pounds) per second.

«For the first time, we can really determine what these strange welts of the icy surface of Pluto really are,» said William B. McKinnon, professor of earth an planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, who led the study.

It allows scientists to measure a variety of ice behaviors at conditions that are applicable to both terrestrial glaciers and icy moon surfaces.

Most likely, scientists have proposed, the tidal flexing induced in a moon's icy surface causes cracks in polar regions to open widest while the satellite is farthest from its parent planet but clamp shut at other times.

Galileo's vintage instruments (designed at the same time as the Apple II computer) could not determine what exactly stains Europa's surface or just how thick its icy crust may be — crucial for learning whether Europa is habitable.

By devising and running a new computer model, Quillen, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rochester, has now shown that the tidal pull exerted by another, similar object could be strong enough to crack the surface of such icy moons.

«Unless Europa has been expanding within the last 40 to 90 million years, there has to be some process on this icy moon that's able to accommodate a large amount of new surface area being created at dilational bands.»

«If the stain is only a thin, colored veneer on the icy soil, exposure to the space environment at Tethys» surface might erase them on relatively short time scales.»

To the surprise of scientists at NASA, New Horizons showed that Pluto has young, icy mountains on its surface.

Ammonia, in addition to sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate found at Occator, has been detected in the plumes of Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn known for its geysers erupting from fissures in its surface.

You can run at a normal pace on dry and paved surfaces, but slow down when conditions are icy and slippery.

At the tender age of two Elle Winters lost everything, when the day of impact transformed Earth's surface into an icy, desolate wasteland.

It would seem logical that icy cold water would be the best choice to cool the pet rapidly, but it will actually cause capillaries at the surface of the skin to close.

The interior design choices — from the richly veined black marble bar and dark ceiling to the gilt touches and shots of icy blue — all create an environment that is commercial on the surface, but warm at heart.