Sentences with phrase «interior of planetary bodies»

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.

Not exact matches

Planetary scientists have previously invoked tectonics — the cracking of a body by forces in the crust — as a way of opening up planetary interiors and allowing resPlanetary scientists have previously invoked tectonics — the cracking of a body by forces in the crust — as a way of opening up planetary interiors and allowing resplanetary interiors and allowing resurfacing.

Then researchers could use the detailed seismic picture of the moon's interior to understand better the evolution of a planetary body assembled from the vaporous debris of a giant impact on the still - forming Earth.

«These findings could challenge our current thinking on the physics occurring in the interiors of icy planetary bodies,» Goncharov said.

Because the interiors of icy planetary bodies might also be salty, due to interactions between the ice and the surrounding rocks or a liquid ocean, lead author Livia Eleonora Bove of the CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France and the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland and the rest of the team studied the effects of salts on the formation of the ice X from ice VII.