Sentences with phrase «new icy world»

The smash hit has been revamped and now features not only all the crazy flying action as in the original but new items to collect and dodge, online leaderboards and a new icy world to match the holiday season.

Not exact matches

The new study helps scientists expand their knowledge of what might be possible on planetary bodies in our solar system, said Kelsi Singer, a postdoctoral researcher who studies icy worlds at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and was not involved with the new research.

An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of British Columbia has discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

Even if Pluto's ocean is really now just ice, Keane says, these new studies of Sputnik Planitia reveal a powerful and unique feedback between Pluto's climate and orbital evolution that could also operate on other icy worlds in the outer solar system.

His team also uncovered unexpected measurements from World War II at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and rare numbers from the icy seas around Russia and Norway in an obsure book tucked away in the New York Public Library.

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — The solar system has gained a new extreme object: L91, a small, icy world with one of the longest known orbits, taking more than 20,000 years to go around the sun.

All of that changes on July 14 when the New Horizons spacecraft, nearly 5 billion kilometers from home, slipped past Pluto and gave humankind its only look at this icy world (see «Rendezvous with Pluto,» SN: 6/27/15, p. 16).

The Kuiper Belt hosts a swarm of distant, icy objects ranging in size from small, primordial planetesimals to much larger, highly evolved objects, representing a whole new class of previously unexplored cryogenic worlds.

The club of «ocean worlds» — icy moons or planets with subsurface oceans in common parlance — gains new members with each new mission to the outer solar system.

Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean - bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and other «ocean worlds» in our solar system and beyond.

Potential for life on Icy Worlds (2d) SETI & other initiatives (e.g. Breakthrough Initiatives)(2e) New technologies for life detection

Laboratory experiments on Earth can now simulate the conditions under which life might emerge on Saturn's moon Enceladus, as well as other icy alien worlds, according to new research published in journal Astrobiology.

Furthermore, New Horizons scientists noted that the flyover movies show the distant world's icy terrain at a vantage point even closer than that achieved by the spacecraft itself.

The two researchers racked their brains to come up with materials that might explain the new spectroscopic feature, and then tested everything from sodium chloride to Drano in Hand's lab at JPL, where he tries to simulate the environments found on various icy worlds.

Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system, according to new NASA research.

Our crew goes looking for rogue Dom and Cipher and after a tense encounter or two (one in New York, where nuclear security codes are lifted from a Russian official), the action shifts over to icy Russia, where World War III seems about to break out at a secret hijacked naval base as tanks and a nuclear submarine take chase after our heroes.

From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, our elite force will crisscross the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing chaos on the world's stage... and to bring home the man who made them a family.