Sentences with phrase «other large moons»

But what sets it apart from other large moons is its atmosphere, discovered in 1944 by Gerard Kuiper.

Its low density implies that it is about 80 per cent ice to only 20 per cent rock, a far lighter mixture than other large moons of...

It sits closer to Jupiter than any of the other large moons.

Not exact matches

A red moon, which could also happen in other months, tends to occur when the moon is low in the sky or when there is a large amount of dust in the air.

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But Hayes presented newly analyzed data from August 2014, when Cassini looked at Kraken Mare, the moon's largest northern sea, in radar and infrared wavelengths within two hours of each other.

He wrote more than 100 books on physics, mathematics and astronomy, among other fields, and is believed to be the first to explain how our brains create the illusion of the moon appearing larger near the horizon.

Other names had been used informally by the New Horizons science team to describe the many regions, mountain ranges, plains, valleys and craters discovered during the first close - up look at the surfaces of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

Planetary cues, such as magnetic inclination and moon phase, guide northern elephant seals and other large vertebrates over long distances and across time.

Several large impact scars on the moon appear to be around 3.9 billion years old, suggesting that the Earth and other objects of the inner solar system were heavily pounded at that time.

Top: A 2012 Hubble photo shows Pluto, its largest moon, Charon, and its four other known moons.

Combining these new estimates with the fact that there are even larger impact basins on the Moon and other planets, Schultz concludes that protoplanet - sized asteroids may have been common in the early solar system.

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.

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

Such a sequence of events, on a much larger scale, may explain the birth of our own Moon in the early days of the Solar System, as well as the origin of many other satellites around planets and asteroids.

Phoebe, the ninth largest of Saturn's 31 known moons, always seemed like the black sheep of the Saturn family, traveling in the opposite direction from the other moons and at a highly inclined orbit.

Three recent missions have found an unexpectedly large supply of water on the moon that could both quench the thirst of future lunar dwellers and produce fuel for missions to other places in the solar system.

In the past, researchers have used this method several times to measure Pluto and its large moon, Charon, but only recently have they applied the technique to other KBOs.

Other Cassini images show an improbable 12 - mile - high ridge cutting across Iapetus, Saturn's third - largest moon.

Moons orbiting other planets are either too small to fully cover the sun's face or are so large that they fully block any view of the corona.

Our solar system's biggest moon — Jupiter's Ganymede — is only 41 % of Earth's diameter, but other solar systems could sport larger satellites (artist's conception shown).

The early moons also have more time to collide with each other, fusing into larger satellites.

The kind of asteroid needed to form the Martian dichotomy would fall in between that size and those of the rocks that formed other large craters, such as the South Pole — Aitken impact basin on the moon and the Hellas Basin in Mars's southern hemisphere, both more than 1,30 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide.

Although the two teams worked unaware of each other, they reached the same conclusion: A large impact can indeed form both moons.

It readily catches small fish, and also targets many other jellies, including the large moon jellyfish.

Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, whirl around each other in images that NASA released August 8.

Europa's briny ocean may also have an acidity similar to battery acid, rich in the sulfur compounds found on the other large Jovian moons.

Saturn's largest and second largest moons, Titan and Rhea, appear to be stacked on top of each other in this true - color scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft released on Dec. 23, 2013.

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.

Beyond the Sun, its eight planets, and their larger moons, the solar system is home to a myriad of other, smaller bodies, including dwarf planets, asteroids, trojans, centaurs, and comets, all the way down to interplanetary dust particles.

What other evidence do we have for extraterrestrial life on the surface of the largest moon of Saturn?

The monikers pegged for Charon, Pluto's largest moon, likewise have four themes, while each of the other four satellites has one theme associated with it.

Lots of lovely and useful green and clean things for our Earth and Moon could be done by the business and other folks of America and the rest of the world once we get large numbers of robots and humans hustling and working hard on the Moon.

While the other 33 are larger, some astronomers wonder if any of them have moons that could be massive enough to support Earth - type life (NASA / Kepler press release).

It's had a series of milestones along the way, but a new one is pretty significant: It's been able to get images of both Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and can see the two orbiting around each other!

So Saxena and his colleagues calculated how much heat would be produced between pairs of trans - Neptunian objects, like Pluto and its largest moon, Charon; Eris and its moon Dysnomia; and a handful of other distant pairs.

Ceres, which is the largest asteroid and one of five dwarf planets in our solar system, now joins Mars and the ocean - bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn as a potential target in the hunt for life on other worlds, Reuters and the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.

Directed by Stephen van Vuuren and narrated by LeVar Burton of Star Trek fame, In Saturn's Rings is a large - format look at NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn, made using over 7.5 million real high - resolution images of the planet, its moons, and other astronomical objects, carefully assembled and presented using classical multi-plane animation techniques.

Kodansha Comics: The American arm of the largest publisher in Japan is riding high on the success of its re-release of «Sailor Moon,» and director of publishing Dallas Middaugh kicked off the panel with the announcement of a new Sailor Moon art book, which will be published simultaneously in Japan, the U.S. and five other countries, with some material exclusive to each country's edition.

TOM ECCLES You've just completed two major projects, From 199A to 199B: Liam Gillick (a survey of your works from the 1990s) at Bard's Hessel Museum and To the Moon via the Beach (a large - scale curatorial project with Philippe Parreno and others in the Roman amphithe - atre) in Arles.

That's the cue to read the other works as frolickful fun: Daniel Sturgis contributes several eye - popping fizzers, Rachel Howard undermines a wallpaper pattern with psycho colours and what could be smears of blood, Mary Heilmann and Amy Sillman go in soft directions, and the grand cool of Ice Palace is one of two large Jeremy Moons — chosen, perhaps, for what August is meant to be like rather than how it's actually panning out this year.

TOM ECCLES: You've just completed two major projects, From 199A to 199B: Liam Gillick (a survey of your works from the 1990s) at Bard's Hessel Museum and To the Moon via the Beach (a large - scale curatorial project with Philippe Parreno and others in the Roman amphitheatre) in Arles.

«When the moon is near the horizon, it can look unnaturally large when viewed through trees, buildings, or other foreground objects,» says NASA.