Sentences with phrase «larger than the moon»

But, you may ask, the sun is so much larger than the moon, so how does this work?

It's true that Mercury is only 40 percent larger than the moon, and at a glance its cratered surface does seem moonlike.

The sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but it is also 400 times farther from Earth.

Not exact matches

And yet Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt — is less than one - tenth of a percent the size of Earth and less than 2 % the size of the moon:

Each November in the days following the light of a full moon, coral colonies across the reef — spanning an area larger than the state of New Mexico — release millions of egg and sperm sacs within nearly minutes of one another.

If the moon were larger than it is, then the tides would be stronger, climatic changes would be greater, causing the tilt of the earth to perhaps be greater than 23.45 degrees.

He wrote more than 100 books on physics, mathematics and astronomy, among other fields, and is believed to be the first to explain how our brains create the illusion of the moon appearing larger near the horizon.

But our moon's rotational bulge — an equatorial diameter that would be, on average, about 200 meters longer than its diameter through the poles if the moon weren't so cratered with huge basins — is about 20 times larger than expected, based on its current once - per - month rate of rotation.

If it exists, the Neptune - sized candidate moon (dubbed Kepler 1625b i) is roughly 4,000 light - years away and orbits a planet a tad larger than Jupiter (SN: 8/19/17, p. 15).

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

The $ 600,000 telescope is designed around an off - the - shelf charge - coupled device (CCD) detector that permits a large field of view, comparable to that of MeerKAT, and more than three times as wide as the full moon.

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...

While our daytime star has a diameter about 400 times larger than that of the moon, it also lies roughly 400 times farther away.

The new hypothesis seems to explain a key commonality among the regular satellites of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — namely, that moons farther from their respective planet tend to have larger masses than their closer - in neighbors.

Those estimates — for the Moscoviense and Orientale basins on the Moon's far side — yielded impactor sizes of 100 and 110 kilometers across respectively, larger than some previous estimates.

In the MESSENGER image, Earth and the moon are less than a pixel, but appear very large because they are overexposed.

McMaster researchers who have modelled planetary systems far beyond our own solar system have found that massive moons larger than Mars might be the best bet.

In fact, only one moon in the entire solar system — Jupiter's Ganymede — is larger than Titan.

Titan, the largest of Saturn's more than 60 moons, is the other body in our solar system with a nitrogen - rich atmosphere that resembles ours.

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

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

For years, many scientists leaned toward a large mass, greater than that of Saturn's moon Mimas, because of the opaque, dense appearance of Saturn's primary ring, the B ring.

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

Saturn's third - largest moon, 900 - mile - wide Iapetus, is girded at the equator with a unique ridge of mountains (photo on the left and in detail at right) that reach a height of 6 miles, taller than Mount Everest.

During more than 6 years of touring Jupiter and its four largest moons, the spacecraft managed to radio some 5 gigabytes of data to Earth, including more than 14,000 images.

Another investigator, Prof. Junichi Haruyama of Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, mentioned the significance of this research, saying, «A smaller celestial body like the Moon cools faster than a larger one like the Earth does.

That's a region thousands of times larger than the full moon, but still much smaller than the one given by Fienga.

At another extreme, Saturn's giant moon Titan seems more like a planet in its own right, larger than Mercury and cloaked in a dense atmosphere.

The side of Pluto's largest moon viewed by NASA's passing New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015 is characterized by a system of «pull apart» tectonic faults, which are expressed as ridges, scarps and valleys — the latter sometimes reaching more than 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) deep.

The moon, for example, is perceived as much larger than it really is; few would guess that it would take some 100,000 moons packed together to fill the sky.

DEEP DOWN One of the largest seas on Titan, Ligeia Mare, seen in this false - color radar image taken by the Cassini spacecraft, extends more than 200 meters below the moon's surface.

At least one of them, discovered last year and nicknamed Xena, is larger than Pluto, has a major moon, and seems to qualify as a 10th planet.

Jupiter's moon Ganymede, with a diameter of 5270 kilometres, is larger than the planet Mercury and has a volume three times as large as our moon.

The cone - shaped vehicle, designed to carry humans farther into space than ever before, is reminiscent of the Apollo capsules that flew astronauts to the moon, but it is a third larger.

The data suggest that larger objects tended to hit the moon earlier in its history than did smaller objects.

The scientists found no new objects, ruling out the existence of any vulcanoids larger than about 6 kilometers, which is less than half the mean diameter of the little martian moon Deimos.

As the planet coalesced during the birth of the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago, the swirling disk of gas surrounding it included several moons about the size of Titan, Saturn's largest remaining satellite, which is about 50 % larger than Earth's moon.

The earlier moons would probably be larger, because they had a bigger ring to draw material from than the later moons.

The kind of asteroid needed to form the Martian dichotomy would fall in between that size and those of the rocks that formed other large craters, such as the South Pole — Aitken impact basin on the moon and the Hellas Basin in Mars's southern hemisphere, both more than 1,30 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide.

As a result, Canup suspects the disk bred a third moon much larger than the two we see, estimating that its diameter was roughly 300 kilometers.

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, in orbit around Jupiter, harbors an underground ocean containing more water than all the oceans on Earth.

She was there as Cassini discovered lakes of liquid methane and ethane dotting the poles of Saturn's giant moon Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury.

A near miss with a pre-existing moonlet is more effective at producing capture than is actual collision — a larger prograde momentum (one in the direction of the planet's spin) is transferred to the captured moon.

Large craters cover more of the moon's surface on its nearside than its farside, according to new maps from NASA's GRAIL spacecrafts.

Maps from the GRAIL spacecrafts reveal more large craters (big circles) and thinner crust (blue) on the moon's nearside (left) than on the farside (right), where the crust is thicker (red).

The surface of Europa — one of Jupiter's four largest moons and slightly smaller than Earth's moon — is riddled with cracks and ridges.

The largest lake on Saturn's moon Titan is as smooth as a mirror, varying in height by less than 3 millimetres, a new study shows.

Early in the formation of our solar system (before 3.9 billion years ago) there was lots of large debris striking the surfaces of the young planets and moons; these older impact basins are larger than the more recent craters.

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

Forming stars, planets, moons, or meteoroids by capturing18 smaller orbiting bodies is far more difficult than most people realize.19 However, if gases are inside these spheres, capture becomes more likely, and the more particles captured, the larger the sphere of influence becomes.