Sentences with phrase «leading hemisphere»

This cloud turns Iapetus's entire leading hemisphere dark, keeping it warmer and ice - free.

The spectra showed that even Europa's leading hemisphere contains significant amounts of nonwater ice.

It covers the moon's leading hemisphere — the side that faces forward as it moves in its orbit — which suggests that the black material has been swept up from space as the moon moves around Saturn.

Cassini also resolved a longstanding mystery about why one half of the moon's surface is 10 times as bright as the other: The leading hemisphere of the moon picks up dark debris that is warmed by the sun, while brighter ices condense on the colder, trailing hemisphere.

The left - hand panel shows the moon's leading hemisphere and the right - hand panel shows the moon's trailing side.

The pervasive magnesium - bearing mineral might also be what makes up the nonwater ice detected on the leading hemisphere's surface.

The leading hemisphere has a yellowish appearance, while the trailing hemisphere seems to be splattered and streaked with a red material.

Some of the brighter, round markings might be recent impact craters, including a bright feature with rays apparently extending from it near longitude 130 degrees on the leading hemisphere of Titan.

This view looks toward the leading hemisphere of Enceladus.