Sentences with phrase «main rings»

NASA's Galileo spacecraft, orbiting Jupiter at the time, first noticed what turned out to be corrugations in the planet's main ring in 1996, but the nature of the ring features was somewhat unclear at the time.

With superb access from the Eastern Bypass of the city's main ring road, Kumasi City Mall has a prominent road frontage, generous undercover and on - grade parking, and two easy access points.

During its final series of close orbits to Saturn, Cassini will directly measure the mass of the planet's main rings for the first time, using gravity science.

On its initial science flyby last August, Juno captured the first image of Jupiter's main ring seen from the inside looking out.

Saturn's main rings consist of the C, B, and A rings, each with different populations of particles.

It will sample Saturn's atmosphere before crossing the orbital distance of the outermost main ring.

This was successfully done early in the mission when it was first inserted into orbit around Saturn, crossing outside the main rings.

The roof of the facility's main ring - shaped building, which houses some 12,000 employees, is covered entirely with solar panels.

But no one thought that Internet TV would so quickly become the main ring in which to find quality programming.

The main ring events will feature old favourites such as the falconry and ferreting displays.

The assailants, riding in two vehicles, opened fire on a security convoy on the main ring road in the Nasr City area.

As the spacecraft passed over Titan, the moon's gravity bent its path, reshaping the robotic probe's orbit slightly so that instead of passing just outside Saturn's main rings, Cassini will begin a series of 22 dives between the rings and the planet on April 26.

But one large section — the outermost of the large, main rings, called the A ring — was much warmer than the models predicted.

In this photo, an unusual perspective on Saturn renders almost all of its main rings transparent, visible only by the shadow they cast upon the planet.

On the other hand, observations by Cassini indicate that the small satellites orbiting near the outer edge of the main ring system have a dense core.

Images of Saturn's Main Rings, the F Ring, and its Shepherd Satellites Obtained by Cassini / The narrow F ring located just outside of the outer edge of the main rings.

In 1979, Pioneer 11 discovered the F ring located just outside the main ring system that extends tens of thousands of kilometers.

And «large» is an understatement: The LHC's main ring is 17 miles around, and over the course of its life it will crank out an enormous amount of data.

And it is clear that the main rings are very thin — less than 1 kilometre from one side to the other — and consist mainly of chunks of water ice typically 1 centimetre to 5 metres across,...

The main ring of the Helix Nebula is about 2 light - years across, about half the distance from our sun to the nearest star.

Weirdest of all is Saturn's thin, braided, and kinky F ring, lying just outside the main ring system.

The two Voyager missions in the 1980s found that, in contrast to the very smooth and nearly two - dimensional nature of the main rings, the F ring is a clumpy mass of twisted braids.

Fermilab's deputy director, Young Kee Kim, says that the lab wants to keep the main ring in working order in hopes of reusing it for future experiments.

Last month, on Feb. 10, scientists at the accelerator circulated a beam of positrons moving close to the speed of light through a narrow tube around the 3 - kilometer circumference of its main ring 10 meters underground.

Consequently, the satellites that formed earlier when the rings were more massive are larger and located farther out, whereas multiple small satellites tend to form just outside of the main rings at the final stage of the satellite system formation.

The bright bands in the center of the image are the main ring in the planet's ring system.

Uranus» main rings are narrow and dense, while Neptune's are clumpy, both having features we don't see in Saturn's broad rings, and having features that change on decadal time - scales.

View from Cassini of Saturn and its main rings.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed this view of the Saturn with its main rings.

The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system, with an orbit tilted 27 degrees from the main ring plane.

Scientists said that the nebula is expanding at more than 43,000 miles an hour, while the center is moving faster than the expansion of the main ring.

RPWS detected the hits of hundreds of ring particles per second when it crossed the ring plane just outside of Saturn's main rings, but only detected a few pings on April 26.

Before it goes, though, the spacecraft will be used to obtain the first - ever samples of Saturn's atmosphere and particles from the main rings, and scientists hope that it will be able to capture the closest - ever views of the planet's clouds and inner rings, the agency added.

Although the main rings are more than 250,000 kilometers (more than 14,000 miles) wide, they are likely less than one kilometer thick.

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We always had a cat and a dog, but over the years our crew included extra dogs and cats, birds — wild and tame, rabbits, and just about anything I (and yes, I was the main ring leader) thought needed a home!

Several of our veterinarians will be on site at the Piers and Madison Square Garden, which showcases the main ring events, on both nights to triage any emergencies that could arise.

Organizers conveyed their condolences to Russian participants once again before the grand ceremony of FCI Flag transfer on the main ring.

It is centrally located south of the main centre but still within the main ring.

Located between Selfoss and Skogafoss close to the main ring road, the first thing you notice on the approach to the falls are their remarkably green surroundings.

Discovery used to be a side show and moved into the main ring in the last decade.

As is typically Apple, there's a lot of attention to detail at Apple Park, and the company is hosting the media in its Steve Jobs Theater, a 1,000 - seat venue that sits outside of Apple Park's main ring on a hill that overlooks the main campus.

The 1,000 - seat theater sits outside of Apple Park's main ring on a hill that overlooks the main campus.