Sentences with phrase «of micrometeoroids»

These harder collisions helped the team further key in on the source of the micrometeoroids pummeling Mercury's surface.

Because Mercury rotates so slowly — once every 58 Earth days, compared to a Mercury year, a complete trip around the Sun, lasting only 88 Earth days — the part of the planet at dawn spends a disproportionately long time in the path of one of the solar system's primary populations of micrometeoroids.

Researchers will examine them to determine the extent of micrometeoroid and orbital debris damage.

Not exact matches

«There is a possibility of the tether being severed by impacts of small debris objects or micrometeoroids,» says a JAXA spokesperson.

Scientists used models along with earlier findings from the MESSENGER mission to shed light on how certain types of comets influence the micrometeoroids that preferentially impact Mercury on the dawn side of the planet.

Pokorný and his team hope that their initial findings will improve our understanding of the rate at which comet - based micrometeoroids impact Mercury, further improving the accuracy of models of Mercury and its exosphere.

Recent modeling along with previously published results from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, a mission that observed Mercury from 2011 to 2015 — has shed new light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury's surface by tiny dust particles called micrometeoroids.

The distributions of other species, like Mg and Ca, as observed by MESSENGER, peak at dawn, consistently with a release induced by micrometeoroid vaporization, assuming a preferential precipitation in the leading side (Burger et al. 2014).

Transient events such as micrometeoroid dust particle impacts can be considered as potential external suppliers of water into all other outer planet stratospheres, modifying locally and temporarily the space weather conditions at these environments.

It puts you in control of humanity's first manned mission to Mars, just as it's struck by a micrometeoroid storm.