Sentences with phrase «moons outside the solar system»

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Interestingly, the team found that cosmic rays were at work deeper down below the surface — meaning at least some of the moon's water comes from outside the solar system.

Dawn is the first mission to visit a dwarf planet, and the first mission outside the Earth - moon system to orbit two distinct solar system targets.

Indeed, within the solar system, the IAU has established many outside - the - mythology - box naming conventions, such as craters on Mercury after deceased artists, and Shakespearean characters for Uranus's moons.

This could also be the case on any world with a negligible atmosphere: Pluto, Earth's moon, Jupiter's moon Europa, Saturn's moon Enceladus, and, theoretically, countless more outside our solar system.

-- to use Earth and Solar System input of geophysical fluid dynamics and thermal evolution of solid planets and the tectonic, glacial and volcanic features that shape their surfaces to model and study a wide range of possible planets and moons inside and outside our own Solar System.