Sentences with phrase «of small moons»
The rings may prove to be a phenomenon that might in turn later lead to the formation of a small moon.
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«Confirmation that the chemical energy for life exists within the ocean of a small moon of Saturn is an important milestone in our search for habitable worlds beyond Earth,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
«Confirmation that the chemical energy for life exists within the ocean of a small moon of Saturn is an important milestone in our search for habitable worlds beyond Earth,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
The GBT images also confirmed the presence of a small moon - like companion zipping around the asteroid, which was previously detected with ground - based optical telescopes by Joe Pollock of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and Petr Pravec of Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic.
Gravitational forces or subsequent collisions could have fragmented each chunk into a family of small moons.
The discovery of a small moon orbiting the third - largest dwarf planet means all the large objects orbiting beyond Neptune have satellites.
The effects of the small moon Prometheus loom large on two of Saturn's rings in this image taken a short time before Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
Sen — One of the overarching goals of extrasolar planet detection is to find out if other planetary systems look like our own Solar System, complete with small rocky planets, large gas giant planets, and hundreds of small moons.
In addition to smaller feats such as repelling enemies and shattering projectiles, Thanos shot power blasts with the Power Stone and even used it to turn the outer layer of a small moon into meteors.
The theory will hopefully be put to the test in the not - too - distant future by an ambitious Japanese mission, that will seek to visit both of the small moons with the aim of retrieving a surface sample for return to Earth.