Sentences with phrase «other planetary body in»

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.

Not exact matches

The new findings are observational evidence supporting the idea that icy bodies are also present in other planetary systems, and have survived throughout the history of the star's evolution.

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.

Planetary scientists have long known that Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, thanks to constant gravitational tugs from Jupiter and its other moons that churn Io's interior.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

Observations of the planets, satellites, and small bodies in the Solar system provide indispensable information about planet formation and evolution processes that remain unattainable for other planetary systems.

Astronomers have long wondered whether other planetary systems have bodies with properties similar to those in the Kuiper belt, and the new study appears to confirm for the first time that one such body exists.

The observations suggest that the dust was created by collisions in a Edgeworth - Kuiper - like belt of icy bodies, and that the orbital asymmetry could be an indication that the dust is being shepherded by an unseen planetary companion — among other explanations (Eiroa et al, 2010).

«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.

The new findings support the notion that belts of icy bodies are also in other planetary systems, and have persisted throughout their star's development.

The scope of COSPAR comprises space studies of the Earth's surface, meteorology and climate; space studies of the Earth - Moon system and other bodies of the solar system, including the search for evidence of life in the solar system; study of planetary atmospheres including those of the ever - expanding inventory of exoplanets; space plasmas in the solar system; research in astrophysics from space; life sciences as related to space; materials sciences in space; and fundamental physics in space.

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

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.

In the fifteenth century, as intellectuals began to reconsider our planet's shape and position in the Universe, the word «Earth» first came to be used in reference to the planetary body we know it as today and the term considered comparable to Mars, Venus, Saturn, and the other spheres of spacIn the fifteenth century, as intellectuals began to reconsider our planet's shape and position in the Universe, the word «Earth» first came to be used in reference to the planetary body we know it as today and the term considered comparable to Mars, Venus, Saturn, and the other spheres of spacin the Universe, the word «Earth» first came to be used in reference to the planetary body we know it as today and the term considered comparable to Mars, Venus, Saturn, and the other spheres of spacin reference to the planetary body we know it as today and the term considered comparable to Mars, Venus, Saturn, and the other spheres of space.

Do you have any other planet in mind, you did just claim «every planetary body with an atmosphere» perhaps you can actually substantiate that?