Sentences with phrase «large icy worlds»

I think John Ackerman is providing three of his books freely as PDFs for those interested in the source of all terrestrial planets (I'll cut to the chase here, spoiler alert, it is the large icy worlds we think of as gas giants).

Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system.

Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system, according to new NASA research.

Not exact matches

The largest and most mysterious resident of the debris belt between Mars and Jupiter is an icy world called Ceres, and it's on the threshold of being explored up close for the first time by NASA's Dawn mission, which is scheduled to enter Ceres's orbit on March 6.

Enceladus — a large icy, oceanic moon of Saturn — may have flipped, the possible victim of an out - of - this - world wallop.

Or perhaps the gas was the aftermath of an extraordinary crash of icy worlds as large as Mars.

The Kuiper Belt hosts a swarm of distant, icy objects ranging in size from small, primordial planetesimals to much larger, highly evolved objects, representing a whole new class of previously unexplored cryogenic worlds.

Indeed, the world's fifth - largest icy continent has attracted the hardiest explorers.