Sentences with phrase «of other planetary bodies»

Early astronomers noted the presence of other planetary bodies and named them after their deities, though our planet kept its connection to the «soil» — or in Latin terra.

And experiments aside, we have scores of empirical observations of rising temperatures, tropospheric lapse rates, energy flux measurements at the top of the atmosphere, modelling experiments, observations of other planetary bodies (Venus is an excellent example of what happens when CO2 concentrations rise well beyond the point of spectral saturation) that all support the greenhouse theory of atmospheres.

The hydrospheres of other planetary bodies are also the focus of research, to find places that humans can inhabit without having to transport all their water with them.

The researchers are interested in studying the effects of haze particles on the atmospheric energy balance of other planetary bodies, such as Neptune's moon Triton and Saturn's moon Titan.

Not exact matches

The new findings are observational evidence supporting the idea that icy bodies are also present in other planetary systems, and have survived throughout the history of the star's evolution.

Fortunately, the risk of contaminating the Red Planet is extremely slim, says Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, who is charged with ensuring agency projects do not contaminate other solar system bodies.

Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments — like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks — have always been done on Earth.

The findings offer additional insight into the unusual and active geology on Pluto and, perhaps, other bodies like it on the planetary outskirts of the solar system.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

Outside of Earth, Titan is the only other planetary body in the solar system with actively flowing rivers, though they're fed by liquid methane instead of water.

Such an intriguing metallic planetary body has not been studied before by any spacecraft; other asteroids visited have been of the rocky variety.

Observations of the planets, satellites, and small bodies in the Solar system provide indispensable information about planet formation and evolution processes that remain unattainable for other planetary systems.

During the simulations, it was found that the planetary bodies would have to strike each other at a rate of 2.5 km (1.6 miles) per second to produce an impact plume with molten droplets that would cool at the correct rate to create chondrules with the characteristics we observe today.

The observations suggest that the dust was created by collisions in a Edgeworth - Kuiper - like belt of icy bodies, and that the orbital asymmetry could be an indication that the dust is being shepherded by an unseen planetary companion — among other explanations (Eiroa et al, 2010).

«There is a great deal of interest in the microbes of the Earth's crust because the strategies by which they survive may be similar to the earliest strategies of life on Earth, and perhaps also on other planetary bodies,» said Rachel M. Haymon, UCSB professor of geology.

The new findings support the notion that belts of icy bodies are also in other planetary systems, and have persisted throughout their star's development.

The scope of COSPAR comprises space studies of the Earth's surface, meteorology and climate; space studies of the Earth - Moon system and other bodies of the solar system, including the search for evidence of life in the solar system; study of planetary atmospheres including those of the ever - expanding inventory of exoplanets; space plasmas in the solar system; research in astrophysics from space; life sciences as related to space; materials sciences in space; and fundamental physics in space.

Whereas the Sun gives light to Earth as it does to other planetary bodies, where does the Sun derive its source of light?

The squid - inspired robot is a concept proposed to one day explore the seas of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, or other distant planetary bodies.

Research areas included the structure of Earth, Moon, and other planetary bodies; the atmospheres of Earth and the other planets; the origin and evolution of the solar system; the properties of interplanetary plasma; Sun - Earth relations; and the structure and evolution of stars.

The loss rate of molecules through the exosphere is critical in determining whether Earth or any other planetary body retains an atmosphere.

Until or unless the planetary body is at the same temperature as deep space there will always be energy input at the bottom of the atmospheric column (and a temperature gradient) and there will always be heat loss by radiation (or some other means like boiling off of the atmosphere) at the top of the column.

The constantly changing Solar System Barycentre varies from being just «the other side» of the solar core to a solar radius outside the Sun's surface, introducing rapidly changing accelerations from planetary bodies at varying latitudes and longitudes around the Solar body.

In the fifteenth century, as intellectuals began to reconsider our planet's shape and position in the Universe, the word «Earth» first came to be used in reference to the planetary body we know it as today and the term considered comparable to Mars, Venus, Saturn, and the other spheres of space.