Sentences with phrase «orbit around the gas giant»

It gives further evidence of how Titan, despite its location in orbit around a gas giant in the outer Solar System, is one of the most Earth - like objects ever studied.
Its irregular orbit around the gas giant creates strong tidal forces within Io, causing its surface to rise and fall by as much as 100 meters.
That's the latest result from Juno, a NASA spacecraft in orbit around the gas giant since 2016.
On the evening of July 4, Juno will fire its main engine for 35 minutes, placing it into a polar orbit around the gas giant.
However, according to The Verge, the maneuver will also cause Cassini to be within around 1,840 miles of Saturn's atmosphere — its closest ever orbit around the gas giant and the height from which it will complete its 22 «Grand Finale» orbits.
Earlier this summer, the spacecraft made its first full orbit around the gas giant — the first of 36 planned flybys during the 20 - month mission — flying 2,500 miles above the planet's dense clouds.
Because it's in an eccentric (i.e. non-circular) orbit around its gas giant host, scientists think gravitational forces are causing Enceladus to twist and contort — and that those contortions are generating heat in the moon's rocky core.
Outnumbered, outgunned, and with their crippled vessel in a decaying orbit around a gas giant, the Titanic's crew must choose between saving themselves... or saving Humanity.
That said, the concept of the «habitable zone» may be a bit of a misnomer, as life may be able to emerge outside of this area, such as on moons in orbit around gas giants.
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