Sentences with phrase «known moons»

The planet has more than 21 moons, including Titan, the second largest known moon in our solar system.

Along the way, Cassini discovered seven moons and parachuted the Huygens probe down to Titan, the only known moon with a thick atmosphere.

Why, for example, are the orbits of Uranus's 27 known moons not also tilted?

Titan, the second largest moon in the solar system, is larger than the planet Mercury and is the only known moon with a thick atmosphere, actually 1.5 times more dense than Earth's.

Top: A 2012 Hubble photo shows Pluto, its largest moon, Charon, and its four other known moons.

Saturn had 18 known moons when Cassini launched.

Captured by Cassini's narrow - angle camera, five of Saturn's 62 known moons appear together, hovering near the planet's outer rings.

Phobos orbits closer to a major planet than any other moon in the solar system, less than 6000 km (3728 miles) above the surface of Mars, and is also one of the smaller known moons in the solar system.

Such objects could prove hazardous to the New Horizons probe, which is due to fly within the orbit of the innermost known moon, Charon, in 2015.

The observations were originally encouraged by the Cassini mission, an international mission of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) that will employ a large robotic spacecraft to explore Saturn and its system of 31 known moons beginning this July.

This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the five known moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto.

After finding the fridge empty of his favorite snack, Wallace looks out into the starry night and is struck with the solution to both problems: «Everyone knows the moon's made of cheese.»

i Similar difficulties exist for evolutionary explanations of the other (almost 200) known moons in the solar system.

UNTIL Simon Marius and Galileo Galilei discovered four of Jupiter's moons 400 years ago, the only known moon was a rather prominent object in Earth's night sky — one that is familiar even to today's light - blighted city dwellers.

Only one other spacecraft, Galileo, has ever circled Jupiter, which is itself orbited by 67 known moons.

We know the moon shares rocks from the earth and so we can date how long ago the moon ran into the earth.

And I know the moon is made if green cheese, and my book tell me so.

Now that we know the moon is unlikely to harbor life, moon missions are held to a less stringent standard than trips to Mars, Europa, or Enceladus, but even moon shots require some basic planetary protection actions.

Later this summer, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will pass by Pluto and its five known moons, providing the most detailed look at this planetary system to date.

A new study is the first to reveal fascinating details about the orbital and rotational patterns of Pluto and its five known moons.

However, earlier studies which proposed that giant planets could possibly eject one another did not consider the effect such violent encounters would have on minor bodies, such as the known moons of the giant planets, and their orbits.

Today we know the moon is lifeless and sterile, its blotches immense plains of solidified magma.

Phoebe, the ninth largest of Saturn's 31 known moons, always seemed like the black sheep of the Saturn family, traveling in the opposite direction from the other moons and at a highly inclined orbit.

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.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon, and may also provide clues to the formation of the planet's known moons.

(Pluto has five known moons: Charon, which is half as wide as the dwarf planet itself, and Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx, all of which are tiny.)

The researchers estimate the hypothesized moonlets in Uranus» rings would be 2 to 9 miles (4 to 14 kilometers) in diameter — as small as some identified moons of Saturn, but smaller than any of Uranus» known moons.

Two of Uranus» 27 known moons, Ophelia and Cordelia, act as shepherds to Uranus» epsilon ring.

It awoke from its final hibernation period last month after a voyage of more than 3 billion miles, and will soon pass close to Pluto, inside the orbits of its five known moons.

PLUTO IN SIGHT The New Horizons spacecraft launched in 2006 on a 9.5 - year, 5 - billion - kilometer trek across the solar system to spend a few hours with Pluto and its five known moons.

On July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will reach the dwarf planet and try to learn all it can about Pluto and its five known moons.

Not only is it the largest planet in the Sun's family, it also presides over a miniature solar system of 53 known moons, a system of rings and an immense and powerful magnetic field.

It has at least 53 known moons and 9 more candidates awaiting confirmation.

With more than 60 known moons to go along with its famous rings, Saturn is as intriguing as it is beautiful.

The first images of Pluto's tiny moon Kerberos were also just released today, completing the «family portrait» of Pluto's five known moons.

The third of Neptune's known moons is the world of Despina.

Neptune has 13 known moons.

This would make them smaller than the planet's 27 known moons, which are as small as eight - 10 miles across.

Only one other spacecraft, Galileo, has ever circled Jupiter, which is itself orbited by 67 known moons.

If planets and moons evolved from swirling dust clouds as is commonly taught, each of the almost 200 known moons in the solar system should orbit its planet in the same direction as the planet spins, but more than 30 moons have backward orbits.e Furthermore, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have moons orbiting in both directions.

No longer calling Pluto a planet (although it is spherical, has five known moons and a thick atmosphere, and orbits the Sun in the right direction) may reduce those man - made problems, but it now calls attention to the more difficult question of how thousands of trans - Neptunian objects evolved.

If the planets and their known moons evolved from the same material, they should have many similarities.

Saturn has 60 known moons.

Neptune has 13 known moons: Triton, Thalassa, Naiad, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus and Nereid Triton has the coldest temperatures in the solar system.

Pluto, currently the largest TNO, has five known moons!

The colour palette doesn't really help with everything being grey and boring, yes I know its the moon and the moon is typically grey but come on.

The game might have been dumbed down over the years to be more accessible to those who don't know the moon is bigger than an elephant ($ 100 question answered incorrectly on «Who Wants to be a Millionaire») but there's something about going head - to - head with your peers and proving who shouldn't be let near the steak knives for fear of picking one up at the wrong end that will always appeal.