Sentences with phrase «on dwarf planet»

Michael Kuppers et al., «Localized Sources of Water Vapour on the Dwarf Planet (1) Ceres,» Nature, Vol.

Its mountains, which are made of frozen water, could reveal many secrets about geologic activity on the dwarf planet today.

Since NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres in March 2015, both scientists and the general public have been able to see the hundreds of bright spots on the dwarf planet's surface.

The incredibly detailed snapshot also reveals other, previously unseen geologic features on the dwarf planet's surface.

Astronomers will get more accurate estimates of Pluto's size, and gain more insight into the wind speeds on the dwarf planet.

The July 14 close encounter — in which New Horizons will zoom within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of Pluto — will reveal many different surface features, such as craters and mountains, on the dwarf planet and its satellites (Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx).

Odds are, none of us will ever be able to actually land on Pluto, but thanks to NASA, we're now able to virtually experience what it would be like to touch down on the dwarf planet due to a new...

Global Aerospace Corporation's «Pluto Hop, Skip and Jump» mission concept that will be presented on Monday would not only land on the dwarf planet, but autonomously hop hundreds of kilometers from one spot to another as it explores its frozen surface.

Astronomers have discovered direct evidence of water on the dwarf planet Ceres in the form of vapor plumes erupting into space, possibly from volcano - like ice geysers on its surface.

Now, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially named 14 features on the dwarf planet's surface.

On the dwarf planet, the reddish color is likely caused by tholins, which are formed when cosmic rays and solar ultraviolet light interact with methane in Pluto's atmosphere and on its surface.

This map from NASA's Dawn mission shows locations of bright material on dwarf planet Ceres.

Organic molecules have been spotted on the dwarf planet Ceres.

This image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a field of small craters next to Kokopelli Crater, seen at bottom right in this image, on dwarf planet Ceres.

The video allows viewers to imagine: what if a space probe touched down on the dwarf planet instead of passing by?

Now, new images from New Horizons revealed a wide bite mark on the dwarf planet's surface.

Getting to Pluto was one of NASA's biggest achievements and the space agency has shared a video showing what the view would have been like if you were landing on the dwarf planet.

Pluto's heart - shaped region hints that a subsurface ocean exists on the dwarf planet.

The brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres gleam with mystery in new views delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

Features on dwarf planet Ceres that piqued the interest of scientists throughout 2015 stand out in exquisite detail in the latest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

Orbiting Ceres since 2015, the Dawn spacecraft picked up hints of organic material on the dwarf planet's surface, researchers reported in February — a sign that Ceres may have once had a habitable environment.

The mysterious bright spot on the dwarf planet Ceres has been revealed in its highest resolution yet, and the bright materials in it appear to be coming from a fractured dome — a possible portal to icy materials in the subsurface.

Hubble images also had glimpsed a white spot on the dwarf planet, but its nature is still unknown.

The upcoming visual exploration of Pluto will fill in knowledge gaps, possibly revealing craters or ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet.

It and 13 other surface features on the dwarf planet have been assigned official nomenclature, the International Astronomical Union announced September 7.

This material probably originated on the dwarf planet itself, the researchers report in the Feb. 17 Science.

Snow - capped peaks on the dwarf planet dot an otherwise ruddy terrain.

Even though density measurements suggest that Ceres is roughly one third water by weight, water ice should rapidly sublimate away into space on the dwarf planet's airless, sun - soaked surface, so its absence at first would seem to be no surprise.

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

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.

«Unexpected changes of bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres.»

Ceres has no atmosphere, so the processes that wear down volcanoes on Earth — wind, rain and ice — aren't possible on the dwarf planet.

Mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are actually composed of many smaller spots.

Now, to find out how the glaciers formed in the first place, scientists created models that simulated atmospheric circulation on the dwarf planet for the last 50,000 years (a mere 200 orbits around the sun for Pluto).

In addition, the presence of water has been confirmed even in the most unlikely of places, like the permanently shadowed crates at the south poles of Mercury and the Earth's Moon, as well as on dwarf planets like Ceres, providing a paradigm shift in our views about the prevalence of this all - important molecule in our planetary backyard.

Not exact matches

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

From this beginning came all that followed, so everything that is is related, woven into a seamless network, with life gradually emerging after billions of years on this planet (and perhaps on others) and resulting in the incredibly complex, intricate universe we see today.32 To think of God as the creator and continuing creator / sustainer of this massive, breathtaking cosmic fact dwarfs all our traditional images of divine transcendence — whether political or metaphysical.

Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

According to the data obtained from the stellar occultation, the ring lies on the equatorial plane of the dwarf planet, just like its biggest satellite, Hi'iaka, and it displays a 3:1 resonance with respect to the rotation of Haumea, which means that the frozen particles which compose the ring rotate three times slower around the planet than it rotates around its own axis.

THE shattered remnants of a dwarf planet may have bombarded the inner planets in the early solar system, suggests a new analysis of craters on the moon.

This artist's impression is based on a detailed map of the surface compiled from images taken from NASA's Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres.

OXYGEN on a planet might be a sign of life, but in two odd white dwarf stars it could indicate a narrow escape from violent death.

NASA's New Horizons probe has officially begun to execute its sequence of Pluto flyby observations as it zooms toward its closest approach to the dwarf planet on July 14.

Caltech astronomer Davy Kirkpatrick, who works on related research, says that brown dwarfs like this one seem to have compositions similar to those of the giant planets detected orbiting faraway stars.

The heat suggests that the dwarfs are wrapped in a dusty disk of the kind that typically give birth to planets, a team reported here on 7 June at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

«Finding a new dwarf planet beyond Neptune sheds light on the early phases of planet formation,» said Brett Gladman, the Canada Research Chair in planetary astronomy at UBC.

Extreme water loss and abiotic O2 buildup on planets throughout the habitable zones of M dwarfs.

An avalanche of data released from NASA's New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, show the dwarf planet has a pair of potentially volcanic mountains near its south pole.

The dayside of a planet close to an M dwarf, however, might become so hot that water escapes to space; on the frigid nightside, the atmosphere could freeze to the surface.