Sentences with phrase «other bodies in the solar system»

The shift is believed to result from a complex interplay with the gravitational influences of Venus and Jupiter, along with other bodies in the Solar System as they all whirl around the Sun like a set of gyrating hula - hoops, sometimes closer to one another, sometimes further.
MSSS scientists have also participated in spacecraft missions to other bodies in our Solar System as Principal Investigators, Co-Investigators, and Collaborators.
Roberts says several other bodies in the solar system — including Saturn's moon Mimas, and the dwarf planet Ceres — could have similarly «fluffy» cores.
This ability to survive in extreme conditions «might be important when we consider the habitability of other bodies in our solar system or beyond,» says astrobiologist Gerda Horneck of the German Aerospace Center.
Titan is the only other body in the solar system to show evidence of an active weather cycle, where liquid evaporates from lakes to form clouds, and rains back down to the surface, forming rivers and channels.
By learning more about the interior of Ceres, as with other bodies in the Solar System, scientists can determine how it formed and how geologically active it has been, or still is.
Auroras have been discovered around several other bodies in the solar system, including Mars and Jupiter.
Titan, the largest of Saturn's more than 60 moons, is the other body in our solar system with a nitrogen - rich atmosphere that resembles ours.
They might explain why Earth seems to be relatively free of asteroid and meteorite collisions compared with the other bodies in the solar system.
The work suggests that frigid Titan actually resembles Earth in some key ways, such as seasonal weather, and it also hints at the possibility that the moon holds vast underground reservoirs of liquid hydrocarbons — a first for any other body in the solar system.
It contains comprehensive sections on: - The Sun, Planets, and Dwarf Planets; - Information about their moons; - Other Bodies in the Solar System; - Human Spaceflight; - Timeline of Discovery; The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).
If we indeed contrive our circumstances (say, by reducing the mass of all the other bodies in the solar system to negligible values, so that we need not concern ourselves with the effects of their gravitation on the solar fragments), then I don't know what the motions of an object inside the orbit of the solar fragments would be.
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