Sentences with phrase «on planetary rings»

Not exact matches

Planetary scientists have gotten their closest look yet at polar hurricanes on the ringed planet, and find that the storms are big enough to engulf Earth.

The scientists» findings could help to increase the understanding of the basic properties of granular gases such as soot agglomeration in flue gases on Earth or in astrophysical phenomena such as cosmic dust in planetary rings in space.

Those measurements reveal that the B ring, which makes up 80 percent of the total ring mass, is about 15 billion billion kilograms, or 0.4 times that of Saturn's moon Mimas, planetary scientist Luciano Iess of Sapienza University of Rome said at the meeting on December 12.

The paper «is a wonderful and gratifying confirmation of what we found several years back,» says planetary scientist and Cassini team member Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who worked on the earlier examination of the F ring.

By drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased from other big craters on Earth.

Not only that, but as the planet and its four planetary siblings orbit their host star, the whole system rotates in space due to tugs from a partner star, as if Saturn and its rings were turning on a spit.

The expedition is helping answer important questions about the Chicxulub impact event and peak - ring crater formation on planetary bodies.

Cassini Makes 8th Dive Through Saturn's Rings: The Cassini spacecraft has made its eighth dive between Saturn and its rings, documenting the planetary system up close as it prepares for its Grand Finale plunge into the gas giant on Sept. 15.

Researchers shed light on scientific phenomenon which helps to better understand evolution of interstellar dust and planetary rings in space

More on Saturn's ring system is available from NASA's Planetary Rings Node.

Torque biasing - Depending on the tooth ratio's of the planetary, ring and sun gear, the desired ratio can be designed.

The power sources work individually on say the ring and the planetary carrier, while the sun gear is used for power take - off to the wheels.

While the sun gear spins, the planetary gears move around it, either around the ring gear or locked into it depending on the gear the transmission is in.