Sentences with phrase «other icy worlds»
Out beyond Neptune's chilly orbit, this saucer - shaped region is home to Pluto, billions of comets, and other icy worlds.
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Pluto and those other icy worlds inhabit a vast realm of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.
«This may cause us to rethink what powers geological activity on many other icy worlds,» says GGI deputy team leader John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo..
Even if Pluto's ocean is really now just ice, Keane says, these new studies of Sputnik Planitia reveal a powerful and unique feedback between Pluto's climate and orbital evolution that could also operate on other icy worlds in the outer solar system.
Other icy worlds in our solar system, like Pluto, Europa, Triton, Charon and Titan, may also have cryovolcanoes, but Ahuna Mons is conspicuously alone on Ceres.
Not exact matches
Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds - especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus - we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.
Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds — especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus — we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.
Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean - bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and other «ocean worlds» in our solar system and beyond.
Potential for life on Icy Worlds (2d) SETI & other initiatives (e.g. Breakthrough Initiatives)(2e) New technologies for life detection
Laboratory experiments on Earth can now simulate the conditions under which life might emerge on Saturn's moon Enceladus, as well as other icy alien worlds, according to new research published in journal Astrobiology.
The water - rich moon is «one of the few places beyond Earth where we can watch geology happen in real time, giving us a primer for understanding other, less active, icy worlds,» John Spencer, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in the study, wrote in a commentary.
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the satellites tasked with measuring the mass changes in Greenland and other icy landscapes around the world, has a hard time time seeing the difference between rising land and ice.
There are pros to not walking up to avalanche-esque volumes of snow each morning; it makes navigating sidewalks and roads (assuming they're not overly icy) worlds safer, and can also mean that fashionistas get to enjoy sporting footwear other than clunky, workhorse snow boots when outdoors for much longer than usual.
They jostle and elbow each other and seem not to notice the view: a panorama of the high Himalayas, stretching from Tibet in the east to the great icy mass of Kanchenjunga, the world's third tallest peak, in the west.