Sentences with phrase «nearby moon»

The vast network of crisscrossing cracks that are seen on the surface of Europa are caused by the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons of the Jovian system, similar to the way that the gravity of the Earth's Moon causes tides on the oceans of our home planet.

The Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s confirmed the scientists» speculations that these ridges were fractures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons of the Jovian system.

The first Colonial team is set to kick off this fall, playing home games at nearby Moon High School Stadium while marching to the drum of none other than former New York Jet coach Joe Walton.

Enceladus and Europa are tidally squeezed by the gravitational forces of their giant planets and in some cases by large nearby moons.

When planetary scientists started studying the photographs and data from Voyager and the subsequent Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s, they confirmed this notion: these ridges, or lineae, are fructures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons.

To mimic Titan's environment, her team combined cold nitrogen, methane, and traces of carbon monoxide and exposed the mix to microwaves (which simulate the sun's ultraviolet rays) and oxygen (which rains down on Titan from eruptions on the nearby moon Enceladus).

Volcanic sulfur particles from the nearby moon Io have bombarded Amalthea and tinted its pockmarked surface a deep red over time.

Analyzing all available images of the F ring and Saturn's nearby moons, the team uncovered evidence for several more moonlets and observed the previously discovered moonlet creating a geyser as it plowed through the F ring.

Some of the snow also settles onto four nearby moons: Mimas, Tethys, Dione and Rhea.

They form when a planet's gravity captures material from a passing asteroid or material expelled from a nearby moon — by a volcano, a geyser, tidal effects, or the impact of a comet or meteorite.c Debris that escapes a moon or asteroid because of its weak gravity and the giant planet's gigantic gravity then orbits that planet as a ring.

Saturn's gravitational tides and those of Dione, a nearby moon, tug on Enceladus during its orbit.

This fierce ending is dramatic for a purpose: It will prevent Earth microbes from contaminating Saturn's nearby moons.

Once the player's mission begins on the RAMA Industries owned Station M, they must unravel the secrets of both the nearby moon and the strange disappearance of RAMA Industries» research team.

[2] In order to speak to him, the Links must enter a nearby Moon Gate.