Sentences with phrase «on rocky bodies»
As impact glass is a ubiquitous substrate on rocky bodies throughout the Solar System and likely common on the early Earth, the preservation of biological activity in impact glass has significant astrobiological implications for life on early Earth as well as for the search for life on other planets.
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Although traveling between these airless, rocky bodies on a rocket - propelled zip line would certainly be thrilling, it would be a long trip; according to NASA, they're usually separated by at least 620,000 miles.
Until recently, that rule led scientists to think only in terms of places just like home: temperate, rocky planets with bodies of liquid water on their surfaces.
If there's gas around and the bodies get large enough, perhaps something on the order of 10 Earth masses or so, then you can start pulling some gas in on top of your rocky core and make something that looks like a gas giant planet, like Jupiter.
Analysis of 166 stars found almost a quarter — much more than expected — had small, rocky planets, which should force a change in thinking on the overall frequency of such bodies.
tectonic Surface activity on a large rocky body (such as a planet or moon) as liquid rock flows up to the surface where it solidifies, then slowly drifts atop molten rock, carrying surface features with it.
What I would desperately like to know is whether or not it has the small rocky bodies on the inside too.
The climactic scenes take place on the beach itself which is a long thin rocky strip of land between two bodies of water in Dorset.
On dryland its one thing but if you get a full body crap in the water and your surfing big waves, especially over a reef or close to rocky crops then your screwed!