Sentences with phrase «large moons»

A few presentation slides with pretty pictures, sized to scale, of the large moons of the solar system.

Four large moons and numerous smaller moons orbit the planet.

Provided their spacecraft stays healthy and funded, the Juno team is contemplating additional measurements that could further probe Jupiter's interior, such as monitoring tidal bulges raised by large moons whipping around the planet.

... If anything, the findings intensify interest in the possibility of life on Mars and large moons such as Titan and Europa, which are suspected of containing liquid water beneath their ice shells.»

And if that's the case, large moons might also.

It's an exciting result given that some scientists argue that large moons and habitability go hand in hand, Eisner says.

In addition to its large moons, Saturn is attended by what Porco calls «flotsam» — dozens of small, irregularly shaped satellites notable mostly for their spectacular diversity.

But what sets it apart from other large moons is its atmosphere, discovered in 1944 by Gerard Kuiper.

Less than 10 per cent of Earth - sized planets are expected to experience such a trauma, making large moons a rarity.

Large moons are not required for a stable tilt and climate, agrees Darren Williams of Pennsylvania State University in Erie.

The end result is a neatly ordered satellite system, with small moons on the inside built from few moonlets and large moons farther out built from numerous moonlets.

Its low density implies that it is about 80 per cent ice to only 20 per cent rock, a far lighter mixture than other large moons of...

The same effect can be seen in three of Jupiter's large moons.

It sits closer to Jupiter than any of the other large moons.

Close encounters with Saturn's largest moon, Titan, have allowed navigators to use the moon's gravity to reorient the probe's orbit so that it could swing over Saturn's poles.

Boucher says the government's role right now is to absorb some of the difficult, non-recurring engineering costs to make it easier for private investors to take on a large moon prospecting development project.

Update: NASA's selected two finalists: CAESAR, a probe to collect and return a sample of comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko, and Dragonfly, a helicopter - like drone that'd explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Moreover, there are two large moon roof s with moon roof covers.

Elara is a large moon of Jupiter.

Io, a name used for the largest moon of Jupiter, was in classic myth raped by Zeus and escaped from him by changing herself into a cow.

All 27 of Uranus» moons have been given names from the works of William Shakespeare as well as Alexander Pope and the name Titania was attributed to its largest moon, which also happens to be the eight largest moon in our solar system.

Pluto's largest moon, long seen as mysterious smudge at the outer reaches of our solar system, was revealed in 2015 closeup images to be pocked with craters, mountains and steep - sided depressions called chasmas.

Other names had been used informally by the New Horizons science team to describe the many regions, mountain ranges, plains, valleys and craters discovered during the first close - up look at the surfaces of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

In December, astronomers announced hints of watery plumes spurting from Jupiter's large moon Europa, potentially giving us a peek into a vast ocean likely to exist beneath its ice.

On Io, one of Jupiter's largest moons, the atmosphere turns to frost and collapses every time the orb passes into the planet's shadow — for about 2 hours during each of the moon's 42 - hour orbits.

The study, published in the June 4 issue of the journal Nature, describes a system dominated by Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, which together form a «binary planet.»

As the ring system spits out moonlet after moonlet, the small objects merge to form larger moons, which may merge in turn as they spiral outward from the planet.

The moonlets could disperse the icy chunks in the middle A ring as they break up there under the gravitational influence of Saturn and its larger moons.

The largest moon shown here is Tethys, which measures 660 miles across, or about the same distance as a drive along California's coast.

Q7 Pluto's large moon, Charon, was briefly considered for planetary status in 2006, before Pluto itself was relegated to dwarf planet.

The fourth - largest moon of Jupiter may have a global ocean roughly 50 miles deep, but all that water lies below an intimidating ice shell up to 12 miles thick.

Simulations have previously shown that additional moons could have formed from the debris cloud, sharing an orbit with the one large moon that survives today.

This panorama was captured in 2005 as the Huygens probe plummeted through the thick nitrogen atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

A newly released image of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, reveals a heavily fractured surface that may have formed when a subsurface ocean froze and expanded to split an exterior shell of ice.

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

These images show the south pole of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

It found winds of over 1,000 mph, the fastest anywhere in the solar system, and dark eruptions on Neptune's largest moon, Triton.

The wide - angle shot (taken a few seconds later) shows the haze in the context of the large moon.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, dominates the view.

The sun rises on Kepler - 47c's largest moon, turning the sky a rosy pink.

The Dragonfly mission would launch a drone - like craft to Saturn's largest moon in 2025 that would land in 2034.

The result was taken by many to imply that complex life is rare in the universe, since Earth's large moon is thought to have coalesced from the debris of a freak collision between a Mars - sized planet and Earth.

Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, has solidified its membership in the growing cadre of solar system locales where liquid water flows beneath the surface.

Perhaps it has a large moon that could support life.

Titan is Saturn's largest moon, a cryogenically cold world with a surface shaped by hydrocarbon rivers and seas fed by methane, ethane and complex organic compounds raining out of its thick, smoggy atmosphere.

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is bigger than the planet Mercury.

«The outer portions of the disk accumulate into Phobos and Deimos, while the inner portions of the disk accumulate into larger moons that eventually spiral inward and are assimilated into Mars.

This is the view on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, more than a billion kilometres away.

Io, the large moon closest to Jupiter, is the solar system's most volcanically active world.

Bizarre «plastic» dunes made sticky by static cling may cover the surface of Saturn's largest moon — and could threaten future missions there