Sentences with phrase «only planet in the solar system»

Earth is the only planet in our solar system that has active plate tectonics — and the only place we know of that harbours life.

«It's not what we expect if the only planets in our solar system are those we know of,» says Volk.

Saturn is the only planet in the Solar System whose rotation time remains unknown.

Saturn is the only planet in the Solar System whose rotation period is not yet known.

Earth to Earth Earth is the only planet in the solar system not named for a Greek or Roman god or goddess.

Earth is the only planet in the solar system with an atmosphere that can sustain life.

Not exact matches

The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.

Getting humans to the red planet is a quest to satisfy our existential human desire to know if we are the only living beings in the solar system.

In talking about the two new planets, NASA focused less on Kepler - 80g and more on Kepler - 90i because it was found to be the eighth planet orbiting the only star in its solar systeIn talking about the two new planets, NASA focused less on Kepler - 80g and more on Kepler - 90i because it was found to be the eighth planet orbiting the only star in its solar systein its solar system.

Our Earth is also the only real habitable planet in our solar system.

(The four largest objects in the asteroid belt, all are still considered asteroids except Ceres, which is now a dwarf planet, the only one in the inner solar system.

Well, three of them are in this habitable zone, and that's kind of like Venus, Earth, and Mars are in the habitable zone here in our solar system, of course only one of those planets is habitable, ours.

That's because such a feat would require gravitational interactions with a planet the size of Saturn or larger, something present in only about 10 % of single - star solar systems near us in the Milky Way.

The basic architecture of our solar system, where things go in circles, and there are small rocky planets close to the sun and big massive gas giants far from the sun, is certainly not the only architecture.

Every major moon in the solar system similarly shows only one face to its parent planet.

NASA researchers have found that several volcanic deposits on Mercury's surface require mantle melting to have started close to the planet's core - mantle boundary, which lies only 400 km below the planets surface and making it unique in the solar system.

«The IAU's planet definition resolution is an example of science at its worst — it's sloppy internally inconsistent, and designed backwards, that is, to produce a desired result that only eight planets are in our solar system.

Meanwhile, on hazy Titan, Huygens and Cassini found an Earth - like landscape of rivers and lakes filled with liquid methane — the only liquid bodies found on the surface of moon or planet in the solar system, except Earth.

Ceres, also designated 1 Ceres or (1) Ceres, is the smallest dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one located in the main asteroid belt.

Only one other moon in the solar system, Neptune's largest moon, Triton, is known to be moving closer to its planet.

So far we've detected only huge planets in other solar systems, most orbiting very close to their suns.

This is the smallest object by far found to have rings and only the fifth body in the Solar System — after the much larger planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — to have this feature.

It is now only a «dwarf planet», one of three in the solar system.

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned lifIn 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned lifin his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

The star, designated Kepler - 10, dimmed 0.015 % every 0.84 day, revealing a planet — dubbed Kepler - 10b — orbiting only 1 / 20th as far from its star as Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, orbits the sun.

Because Mercury rotates so slowly — once every 58 Earth days, compared to a Mercury year, a complete trip around the Sun, lasting only 88 Earth days — the part of the planet at dawn spends a disproportionately long time in the path of one of the solar system's primary populations of micrometeoroids.

In this simplified solar system, only the sun attracted the planets and comets.

The current official definition of a planet, which was issued by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, applies only to bodies in our solar system, which Margot said has created a «definitional limbo» for the newly discovered bodies.

Not only is it the largest planet in the Sun's family, it also presides over a miniature solar system of 53 known moons, a system of rings and an immense and powerful magnetic field.

Pasadena, CA — Observations of Ceres have detected recent variations in its surface, revealing that the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system is a dynamic body that continues to evolve and change.

Many scientists believe the Earth was dry when it first formed, and that the building blocks for life on our planet — carbon, nitrogen and water — appeared only later as a result of collisions with other objects in our solar system that had those elements.

And NASA rounded out its year by announcing it had discovered an eighth planet in another solar system, making it the only one to match our own for the total tally.

Mercury is the only planet besides Earth in the inner solar system to have such a magnetic field.

Scientists believe that by looking at Mercury, they will learn not only about planets in our solar system, but also about the increasing number of rocky planets being found around other stars.

With only days to go before NASA's Cassini space probe ends its two - decade mission to explore Saturn, what has it revealed about the ringed planet, the second largest in our solar system?

There's only one planet in our solar system that can communicate across interplanetary space.

Titan is the second largest moon in the solar system, after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and it's sometimes called a planet - like moon: It's the only other world in our neighborhood to feature stable bodies of liquid on its surface, and it has a thick atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen.

We are entering a scientific era in which we have the capability to detect not only giant planets the size of Jupiter, but Earth - sized planets in the habitable zones of their solar systems, the locations where liquid water can exist.

There are only eight planets in our solar system, but there are more than a hundred moons.

The distance from Star A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.56 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System.

Assuming that the spectroscopic companion B does not preclude a stable inner planetary orbit, the distance from Star A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.457 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System.

Now, giant cyclones at the planet's poles have been seen in greater detail than ever before — they are not only stunning, but unique from atmospheric storms of any other planet in the Solar System, even other gas and ice giants.

The distance from Kappa Ceti where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.92 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Venus in the Solar System.

The orbit of object «b» around 79 Ceti is only mildly eccentric, but may still be more elliptical than that of any planet in the Solar System other than Pluto.

On the other hand, the distance from BD +04 123 where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.49 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System — where a planet probably would have an orbital period around 137 days or more than a third of an Earth year.

While we only discovered an exoplanet (that is, a planet not supported by our solar system) for the first time in 1992, scientists were pretty darn quick to figure out ways to determine the composition of some of Earth's far - distant cousins [source: Encyclopedia Brittanica].

The distance from CD - 23 17699 where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.202 AU — within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

Planet - hunting outside our solar system is only for those with advanced science degrees, lab coats and Neil deGrasse Tyson's phone number in their cell phones.

Its battery lasted for 72 minutes after landing and marks the first and only landing on a moon or planet in the outer solar system.

«Irregular satellites of planets in the outer Solar System are the only population of objects dominated by retrograde motion relative to the parent body, but their origin is not clear.»