Sentences with phrase «of icy material»

Cassini is scheduled to make a close flyby of Enceladus on Oct. 28, in the mission's deepest - ever dive through the moon's active plume of icy material.

The vast fountains of icy material erupting from Enceladus's south pole enthralled planetary scientists when they were first spotted in images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005.

This in turn suggests that the planet was bombarded by a lot of icy material which gathered in its atmosphere.

Because a comet's nucleus is made up of a combination of icy materials and loosely consolidated «dirt,» when a comet is heated by passing close to the Sun, it more or less slowly disintegrates, producing the visible tail.

Not exact matches

Designed for wearing at work but flexible enough for a quick hike around town as well, the Santiago shoes use materials made mostly of leather with a rubber sole that can handle slick icy surfaces.

The icy materials in 67P will vaporise, emitting gas and dust in a tail that will trail for thousands of kilometres and be observed by Rosetta.

The other suggests they arose in a two - stage process called core accretion, in which bits of material smashed and fused together to form bigger rocky, icy bodies.

The jets also supply icy material to one of Saturn's rings.

It is a giant swarm of icy objects believed to be material left over from the formation of the solar system.

Astronomers believe this region, called the Oort cloud, contains a vast collection of icy debris left over from material that came together to form the sun, Earth, and the other major planets 4.6 billion years ago.

Last year, scientists predicted that some of the material spewed out into space by the icy geysers at Enceladus's south pole would slowly fall down to certain areas on the surface.

Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team, says the ring pictures may even help us figure out how Earth formed: «If we understand how icy particles in the outer solar system behave, then we can refine our understanding of how the early solar system formed from that same material.»

Like a cosmic lava lamp, a large section of Pluto's icy surface is renewed by a process called convection that replace older ices with fresher material.

In particular, sensors that could analyze the chemical composition of the plumes, either remotely or by sampling the material as it whizzed through the vapor, could provide keen insights into the chemical processes taking place on or deep beneath Europa's icy surface.

What little rocky material occurs in today's ring system probably is the debris of collisions between icy ring particles and asteroids and comets swept up by the planet's huge gravitational field, says Canup.

Philae's job is to sample the pristine icy material, looking for clues to the origins of Earth's oceans and of life itself.

If Pluto's core was rocky and its mantle icy, most of the material blasted into space by the collision would have been ice, accounting for Pluto's high rock - to - ice ratio today.

For example, the spacecraft spotted geysers of water vapor and other material blasting from the south pole of the icy moon Enceladus.

The presence of icy grains is expected to assist in the formation of planets since it creates additional, solid material to form the planetary core.

(4) Does the «typical» circumstellar disk states of primary star + Kuiper Belt Star show evidence for material from each of the different kinds of small outer solar system bodies (Comets, Centaurs, KBOs) like the active comet debris in HR4796A and the icy KBO debris in Fomalhaut and HD 32297?

Icy moons are made mostly of ice, which can be frozen water, or ice made of other materials.

The team found that, at the high pressures expected in the moon's ocean, icy materials called clathrates could form that imprison methane molecules within a crystal structure of water ice.

This water even escapes as geysers, through fissures in its icy crust, producing stunning plumes that eject material hundreds of miles high and into Saturn's rings.

These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

If you regularly run on trails or in very icy, slushy, or muddy conditions, it's worth checking to see if your favorite shoe comes in Gore - Tex, the lightweight, waterproof material found in all kinds of outdoor gear.

She always seemed so detached from the material, as though her icy demeanor was not just a character choice but a way of deflecting the material.

Juvenile provocation for provocation's sake, Hard Candy delights in its stylishly deviant material — in which squishy - sounding mutilation and garbage disposal testicle - grinding occurs in an icy, claustrophobic apartment characterized by sharp architectural angles and symbolic primary colors — while both pulling its ghastly punches and failing to exhibit the devilish irony of an American Psycho or the meta accusations of a Funny Games.

Icy planetesimals likely were the carriers of materials like water and carbon compounds that are the fundamental building blocks of life.

We expect these kinds of crashes will increase over the holidays, with a combination of icy winter weather and the tendency of trucking companies to overload their vehicles and overwork their drivers in an attempt to meet end - of - the - year demands for goods and materials.

From the Icy Crystal Santa's Gifts Collection Features beautiful formations of dendrites with the elegance of ice sculptures Dimensions: 6 «H. Material (s): acrylic Pack includes 18 of the item shown