Sentences with phrase «of icy worlds»

Ganymede is identified for detailed investigation since it provides a natural laboratory for analysis of the nature, evolution and potential habitability of icy worlds in general, and also because of the role it plays within the system of Galilean satellites, and its unique magnetic and plasma interactions with the surrounding Jovian environment.

The work was supported by the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professorship at Caltech and by the NASA Astrobiology Institute through the Astrobiology of Icy Worlds node at JPL.

Yang, J., F. Ding, R.M. Ramirez, W.R. Peltier, Y. Hu & Y. Liu, Abrupt climate transition of icy worlds from snowball to moist or runaway greenhouse, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038 / ngeo2994, 2017

Or perhaps the gas was the aftermath of an extraordinary crash of icy worlds as large as Mars.

High - resolution images of the icy worlds reveal towering mountains, yawning canyons and perhaps hints of a subsurface ocean

«Since most of these icy worlds are incredibly small and faint, it's exciting to find a bright one that is easier to study, and which is on an interesting orbit.»

Not exact matches

Since Estonia had little means for attracting masses of immigrants to its icy Northern European landscape, it came up with a quirky idea — another of its firsts in the world: offering people virtual residency.

But instead of being confined by the company's legacy, he has managed to use the position to very much do his own thing — since becoming CEO in 2001, he has transitioned Canada Goose from a line of outwear products worn exclusively by residents» of Canada's icy northern regions into a brand sported by celebrities, featured in magazines (including Kate Upton's infamous Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover) and worn by individuals the world over.

There are few moments of joy in the world like an icy morning in the midst of summer with rain pattering against your windows.

This ice cream has the best of both worlds: melty mallow and chocolate, icy cold ice cream, texture from the graham crackers.

North of the tree line and south of the pole, the wild, icy rivers of the Canadian Arctic offer itinerant flying anglers some of the world's most exciting fishing

The largest and most mysterious resident of the debris belt between Mars and Jupiter is an icy world called Ceres, and it's on the threshold of being explored up close for the first time by NASA's Dawn mission, which is scheduled to enter Ceres's orbit on March 6.

We now must confront the goose - bump - raising questions: Did this small icy world host a second genesis of life in our solar system?

High mountains and latitudes were once thought far too bleak for ancient humans, but as icy patches melt they are revealing a rich world of human history

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.

A bizarre and fascinating world of icy plates, needles, and six - armed flakes emerges from the lab of Eric Erbe and William Wergin

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

Enceladus — a large icy, oceanic moon of Saturn — may have flipped, the possible victim of an out - of - this - world wallop.

For the lower - altitude fringes of the icy continent, and for the rest of the world (even Siberia and Greenland), the greenhouse effect still works as expected.

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.

An icy world on the outskirts of our solar system, Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest fly - by of the north pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus — and saw a world covered in craters and cracks

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.

But the roof of the world is still losing its icy coat.

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.

In Lake Whillans, says Priscu, «we have an excellent model to draw a fairly strong hypothesis of what [life] we might find in another icy world.»

Climate change is aiding shipping, fisheries and tourism in the Arctic but the economic gains fall short of a «cold rush» for an icy region where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the world average.

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.

Instead, they listen idly to the icy air swooshing upward as the cage plunges into the guts of northeastern Minnesota's Iron Range, away from the snowdrift - filled landscape and into a world of darkness.

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.

Sampling Lake Whillans could also provide hints about what kind of life might survive in icy worlds elsewhere in the solar system.

«This may cause us to rethink what powers geological activity on many other icy worlds,» says GGI deputy team leader John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo..

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.

Russell's work was funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute through the Icy Worlds team based at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

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

The as - yet - unconfirmed world, thought to be around the mass of Mars, would explain the wonky orbits of a group of icy objects in a region known as the Kuiper belt.

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.

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.

In the greater NZ region, we have undersea hot springs (hydrothermal vents of the Kermadecs), marine hydrocarbon seeps and gas hydrates (offshore eastern North Island — possible analogues for oceans on Icy Worlds), and terrestrial (on land) hot springs in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and elsewhere around the country.

A paper published this week in Astrophysical Journal, led by Open University academics, has examined the exact structure and behaviour of the icy particles that collide and grow at the onset of planet - formation, in a series of revealing experiments at the UK's world - leading neutron source, ISIS.

Ice worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune known as Trans - Neptunian Objects may have liquid oceans beneath their icy surface, a NASA study suggested.

The images, which show the cratered and pockmarked surface of the small icy world, were taken by the Cassini probe, which entered into orbit around the planet in 2004.

Pluto and those other icy worlds inhabit a vast realm of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.

The Cassini spacecraft has just successfully completed the first of three final close flybys of Saturn's moon Enceladus, and has sent back some spectacular images of the northern regions of this icy and watery world, the best views ever seen so far.

Might some be scaled - down versions of icy Neptunes or steamy water 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.