Sentences with phrase «other planetary bodies»

Earth's moon now a member of solar system's exclusive «true polar wander» club, which includes just a handful of other planetary bodies.

The findings raise interest in topical research on similar volcanism on other planetary bodies like Mercury, Venus, Mars and the Moon.

Outside of Earth, Titan is the only other planetary body in the solar system with actively flowing rivers, though they're fed by liquid methane instead of water.

Io is the only other planetary body in our solar system with active volcanoes erupting lava, as is the case here on Earth.

The dwarf planet, with an orbit between Mars and Jupiter, also lies far closer to the sun than other planetary bodies where cryovolcanoes have been found.

The only other planetary bodies theorized to have permanently shifted location of their axis are Earth, Mars, Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa.

Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments — like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks — have always been done on Earth.

As human endeavour has reached out into space, the earth sciences have expanded to include other planetary bodies.

«I wish it were not so, but I'm somewhat skeptical that we're going to learn an awful lot about Earth by looking at other planetary bodies.

The researchers are interested in studying the effects of haze particles on the atmospheric energy balance of other planetary bodies, such as Neptune's moon Triton and Saturn's moon Titan.

«There is a great deal of interest in the microbes of the Earth's crust because the strategies by which they survive may be similar to the earliest strategies of life on Earth, and perhaps also on other planetary bodies,» said Rachel M. Haymon, UCSB professor of geology.

They aim to unite research interests to shed light on how life began and developed on earth, other planetary bodies, and the cosmos at large.

A similar system would work on Mars or some other planetary body,» says NASA's David Smitherman.

The hydrospheres of other planetary bodies are also the focus of research, to find places that humans can inhabit without having to transport all their water with them.

A key test of this hypothesis would be to ascertain whether carbon - based life ever arose in Earth - like habitats that may have once existed, or still persist, elsewhere in the Solar System — on Mars, on Venus, and in other planetary bodies (including sub-ice oceans on Europa and other large moons of the outer gas giants)-- as well as around other stars.

Whereas the Sun gives light to Earth as it does to other planetary bodies, where does the Sun derive its source of light?

Research areas included the structure of Earth, Moon, and other planetary bodies; the atmospheres of Earth and the other planets; the origin and evolution of the solar system; the properties of interplanetary plasma; Sun - Earth relations; and the structure and evolution of stars.

The loss rate of molecules through the exosphere is critical in determining whether Earth or any other planetary body retains an atmosphere.

The GCM may be one of the most useful tools for studying Earth's own climate, but a great deal of research on other planetary bodies, including Venus, helped shaped the way we now think about planetary climates (see Part I).

Early astronomers noted the presence of other planetary bodies and named them after their deities, though our planet kept its connection to the «soil» — or in Latin terra.