Sentences with phrase «on icy particles»

Our laboratory experiments show that methyl isocyanate can indeed be produced on icy particles under very cold conditions that are similar to those in interstellar space This implies that this molecule — and thus the basis for peptide bonds — is indeed likely to be present near most new young solar - type stars,» said Niels Ligterink at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands.

Not exact matches

On September 13 and 14, Cassini took a last look around the Saturn system's greatest hits, taking a color mosaic image of Saturn and the rings, a movie sequence of Enceladus setting behind Saturn, Titan and tiny moonlets in the rings that pull the icy ring particles around themselves to form features called propellers.

Left alone, friction inside the ring would cause its icy particles to spill out both on the inner and outer edges.

Icy volcanoes on Enceladus launch huge jets of gas and icy grains that contain fine particles of rock into spaIcy volcanoes on Enceladus launch huge jets of gas and icy grains that contain fine particles of rock into spaicy grains that contain fine particles of rock into space.

Based on these facts, and other indicators, researchers recently proposed that the icy moons formed from ring particles and then moved outward, away from the planet, merging with other moons on the way.

The temperature of the stratosphere is one of the key factors in the springtime depletion of ozone above the Antarctic where in winter it gets colder than anywhere else on Earth, encouraging icy particles to form in polar stratospheric clouds.

Its central core is icy, but ring particles accumulate on a strip around its circumference, fattening Pan out to a 35 - kilometre diameter.