Sentences with phrase «new outer moons»
Numerous new outer moons ranging in size from three to 50 km (almost two to 31 miles) with irregular «long and loping» orbits were discovered in 2000, and one that may be 8 km (5 miles) wide was discovered in 2003.
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An ocean within Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be intermittently venting plumes of water vapor into outer space, according to a new study in the Astrophysical Journal.
Meanwhile, astronomers will get close - up views of the outer solar system in July 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto and sends back detailed images of the once most - distant planet and its three moons.
In 1967, inspired by a new international outer - space treaty, the space - racing nations of the world agreed to spare no effort in preventing the potential spread of organisms from one moon or planet to another.
Astronomers believe the small moons, temporarily designated S / 2005 P1 and S / 2005 P2, may be rubble from the same primordial collision that gave birth to Charon and could shed new light on the early history of the outer solar system.
New Horizons» flyby of the dwarf planet and its five known moons is providing an up - close introduction to the solar system's Kuiper Belt, an outer region populated by icy objects ranging in size from boulders to dwarf planets.
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.
With less than four weeks remaining before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft speeds through the Pluto system for humanity's first - ever close - up reconnaissance of the distant planet and its assortage of moons, speculation runs rampant among scientists and the general public alike about what these mysterious worlds at the outer reaches of the Solar System might look like up close.
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.
(1965) • The Lion King (1994) • The Cat Returns (2002) • Shrek the Halls (2007) Disney in the Early»60s: Pollyanna (1960) • The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) • The Moon - Spinners (1964) Also Directed by Donald Chaffey: Greyfriars Bobby (1961) • Pete's Dragon (1977) New to Disney DVD: The Ugly Dachshund (1966) • The Cat From Outer Space (1978)