Sentences with phrase «mysteries about the planet»

That perspective helped solve mysteries about the planet and its moons that could not be tackled any other way, scientists said March 19 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

A bold plan to drill into Earth's interior promises to solve profound mysteries about our planet — and might even find life down there

Not exact matches

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

In fact, the more I learn about the world, the more I know about science, the more I am amazed about the mystery of this planet and this universe — and it strengthens my faith as opposed to weakens it.»

When GQ's Michal Hainey asked Rubio, in an interview released Monday, «How old do you think the Earth is,» the rising Republican star described the debate about the planet's age as «one of the great mysteries.»

It solves a long - standing mystery about how dust particles in discs grow to larger sizes so that they can eventually form comets, planets and other rocky bodies.

«It continues to amaze us; every time we look carefully we continue to find that Planet Nine explains something about the solar system that had long been a mystery,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.

But for planetary scientists, Jupiter's most distinctive mystery may be what's called the «energy crisis» of its upper atmosphere: how do temperatures average about as warm as Earth's even though the enormous planet is more than fives times further away from the sun?

But the mystery for physicists is why that force is so puny compared with the electromagnetic force that it doesn't rip that magnet off your refrigerator — we're talking about the pull of an entire planet, after all.

The new data also give scientists clues to a long - standing mystery about the atmospheres of giant outer planets.

The Messenger probe travelled at about 25,700 kilometres per hour as it passed over Mercury on a mission designed to resolve some of the mysteries about the solar system's innermost planet, officials said.

What happens in the bowels of the planet is a mystery, but we have a decent idea about the nature of the first few hundred kilometres beneath the surface.

If the giant planet announced this week actually exists, we can already explain how it got there - and how it solves a mystery about the worlds we see around other stars

What do you get when you take what is probably the greatest baseball film ever made («Eight Men Out»), a magical Irish fairytale («The Secret of Roan Inish»), a strange science fiction film about a mute, black alien who lands in Harlem («The Brother from Another Planet») and one of the best mystery / suspense films in recent years («Lone Star»)?

The Signal From Tölva is Big Robot's forthcoming open - world, sci - fi FPS about exploring an alien planet, fighting enemy factions and solving the mystery of The Signal.

Tauchi: Not only does the game itself present obstacles with dungeons and monsters to defeat, but there are many mysteries to discover about the planet's lore hidden in each maze.

«It continues to amaze us; every time we look carefully we continue to find that Planet Nine explains something about the solar system that had long been a mystery,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.