Sentences with phrase «of icy planets»

«Scientists probe Neptune's depths to reveal secrets of icy planets.»

This kind of water doesn't exist naturally on Earth, the scientists report in Nature Physics, but it may be present in the mantles of icy planets like Neptune and Uranus.

NASA has released a composite image created from observations made by the Voyager 2 probe and the Hubble Space Telescope, displaying intense auroras glowing in the atmosphere of the icy planet Uranus.

Perhaps we'll get some back - story on new protagonist John Carver or get a history lesson on the past of the icy planet Tau Volantis.

Not exact matches

Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed planet and provided streams of data about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and icy satellites.

The second mission extension provided dozens of flybys of the planet's icy moons, using the spacecraft's remaining rocket propellant along the way.

Taken together, Palumbo says, the results offer a potential means of reconciling the geological evidence for flowing water on early Mars with the atmospheric evidence for a cold and icy planet.

Extensive valley networks spidering through the southern highlands of Mars suggest that the planet was once warmer and wetter, but new research shows that water could still have flowed intermittently on a cold and icy early Mars.

A recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mountains of icy rock — called cryovolcanoes — might disappear over millions of years.

Dr Andreas Hermann, of the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, said: «This study helps us better predict what is inside icy planets like Neptune.

Such worlds may include Mars, the asteroid Vesta, the dwarf planet Ceres or the icy moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

The results also suggest the presence of unseen, surviving planets which may have perturbed the belt and worked as a «bucket brigade» to draw the icy objects into the white dwarf.

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.

«We started this work motivated to find the types of compounds that might be in comets, icy planets and moons, providing guidance for future NASA missions,» Allamandola adds.

A shift in geologic epoch signifies an irreversible change in this planet's history, whether the icy ages of the Pleistocene or the long summer of the Holocene.

If this kind of icy meteorite brought water to Earth late in the planet's formation, then the isotopes inside them should match the isotopes in Earth's mantle.

Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater

The spacecraft will in coming years be plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere, bringing the mission to a fiery end designed to avoid contaminating any of the planet's astrobiologically interesting icy moons.

It's currently impossible to probe beneath the icy crust of a planet like Pluto, but if Ceres does have an exposed frozen (once subsurface) ocean, that gives planetary scientists a useful proxy.

New Maps of Mercury Show Icy Looking Craters on the Solar System's Innermost Planet A NASA spacecraft bolsters the case that ice lines the inside of polar craters on Mercury

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

In January, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two planetary scientists at the California Institute of Technology, speculated on the existence of a ninth planet based on an odd alignment of six distant icy bodies.

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.

But if it is a planet, as one team of astronomers thinks, we may be in for some celestial fireworks in 2032, when Fomalhaut b starts to plough through a broad belt of debris that surrounds the star and icy comets within the belt smash into the planet's atmosphere.

Fomalhaut's mystery planet (inset) is bound to enter the inner edge of the star's outer belt of icy debris in 2032.

Astronomers will be searching for direct evidence of a ninth planet in the far reaches of the solar system; its existence was inferred this year from its gravitational effects on icy objects beyond Pluto.

Since January, scientists have been chasing Planet Nine: a distant hypothetical world that could have 10 times the mass of Earth and explain the peculiarly clustered orbits of six icy bodies beyond Neptune.

They found the object was the same colour as some of the icy minor planets they had been studying in the outskirts of our solar system.

Using computer modeling, chemists from MIPT and Skoltech (the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) have found out which molecules may be present in the interiors of Uranus, Neptune, and the icy satellites of the giant planets.

The interiors of the icy satellites of giant planets, such as in Jupiter's moon Europa, have conditions where carbonic acid could form.

Dwarf planets like Pluto and smaller icy bodies populate the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune.

One of our solar system's five dwarf planets, Makemake — an icy, 1400 - kilometer - wide orb that circles the sun far beyond Pluto — was discovered in 2005.

That's most likely because they are fragments of a larger icy body, say a planet, that recently broke up, the researchers suggest.

Planets shrouded in clouds full of icy particles, like Venus and Jupiter, for instance, are very reflective.

Data gathered when the dwarf planet Makemake passed in front of a distant star last year are shedding new light on the icy orb's size, shape, and atmosphere — or, more precisely, its lack of one.

One of Saturn's moons, Dione, has joined the ranks of our solar system's «ocean worlds» — icy moons or planets with oceans beneath their crusts, Astronomy Now reports.

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.

It envisions the great reshuffling as a brief, violent affair that not only put the outer planets where they are today but also created the Kuiper belt of small icy bodies beyond Neptune, gave the planets scores of oddly orbiting moons, and bombarded the solar system with a rain of asteroids and comets so fierce that it would have cooked all but the deepest subterranean life on early Earth.

These icy missiles likely bombarded the inner solar system billions of years ago, delivering water to the inner planets.

Cassini gazes across the icy rings of Saturn toward the icy moon Tethys, whose night side is illuminated by Saturnshine, or sunlight reflected by the planet.

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.

In an experiment designed to mimic the conditions deep inside the icy giant planets of our solar system, scientists were able to observe «diamond rain» for the first time as it formed in high - pressure conditions.

The loss of so much gas may explain how the planet morphed from a wet, warm world to a dry, icy one.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon, and may also provide clues to the formation of the planet's known moons.

If the early results hold up, this time it's the dwarf planet Eris's turn to be demoted, and Pluto might have just regained its status as the largest object in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

And Planet X could roam as far as 600 to 1200 AU, well beyond the Kuiper belt, the region of small icy worlds that begins at Neptune's edge about 30 AU.

His 2005 discovery of Eris, a remote icy world nearly the same size as Pluto, revealed that what was seen as the outermost planet was just one of many worlds in the Kuiper belt.

As a researcher at Brown University in the late 1990s, Pappalardo worked on the Galileo mission when the first detailed pictures of the planet's icy satellites were beamed back to Earth.

The coldest, driest, and iciest of Earth's continents, Antarctica is home to some of the most important and ambitious science projects on the planet.

The pictures, taken when New Horizons was about 13 million kilometers from the dwarf planet, show three different swaths of the icy surface as Pluto slowly rotated on its axis.