Sentences with phrase «includes terrestrial planets»

These organisms show that life's potentially habitable zone includes terrestrial planets like Mars and moons like Europa and Titan.

Not exact matches

The U.S. and Canadian NGO ForestEthics reports that «Canada's boreal forest (alone) stores 23 percent of the planet's terrestrial carbon - more carbon per acre than any other ecosystem on earth, including tropical forests.

So far, 2,335 candidates have been confirmed as planets and they include about 30 temperate, terrestrial worlds.

Dry, rocky Vesta, which lies about 38 million miles closer to the sun than Ceres, can be considered the smallest member of the terrestrial planets — the family that includes Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury.

There is evidence that Earth has gone through at least one globally frozen, «snowball» state in the last billion years, which i... ▽ More Although the Earth's orbit is never far from circular, terrestrial planets around other stars might experience substantial changes in eccentricity that could lead to climate changes, including possible «phase transitions» such as the snowball transition (or its opposite).

Understanding this «end member» among the terrestrial planets is crucial to developing a better understanding of how the planets in our solar system — including our own!

«This will help us understand the processes that helped shape the surfaces of all the terrestrial planets, including Earth, and the moon.»

The table also organizes the planets according to size, including various forms of terrestrial, rocky planets (which Méndez refers to as «terrans»), and gassy exoplanets resembling Neptune and Jupiter.