Sentences with phrase «other rocky planets»

Earth's atmosphere differs from the atmospheres of most other rocky planets and moons in our solar system in that it is rich in nitrogen gas, or N2; Earth's atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen gas.

Astronomers believe that rocks just like Vesta were the raw material that coalesced to form Earth and the other rocky planets 4.5 billion years ago.

Early on, it went through the same kind of history that Earth and the other rocky planets went through, says Zellner.

Vesta is essentially a remnant protoplanet, identical to the myriad small bodies that were incorporated into Earth and the other rocky planets more than 4 billion years ago.

Dawn's data refute the idea that Earth and the other rocky planets condensed slowly and steadily from the cloud of dust and gas that surrounded the infant sun, as some simple models have posited.

The meteorites» mineralogical composition showed that, like Earth and the other rocky planets but unlike almost all other asteroids, the newly formed Vesta melted and stratified into a rocky crust, a mantle, and an iron.

FAR OUT Mars may have formed near what's now the asteroid belt, much farther away from the sun than the other rocky planets.

With Mars forming so far from the planetary feeding frenzy responsible for the other rocky planets, its composition would be distinct.

And it isn't anything like the other rocky planets — Earth, Mars, or Venus — either.

Unlike the other rocky planets in our solar system, it has an immense iron core that makes up roughly 70 per cent of the planet's volume.

That heat led to the separation of the primordial body into a rocky crust, an underlying rocky mantle, and a central metallic core, hallmarks of planet Earth and the other rocky planets.

These results will give scientists insight into how Mercury and other rocky planets may have formed.

Our solar system contains no super-Earths: All of the other rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars) are smaller and less massive than Earth, and the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and ice giants (Neptune and Uranus) are all larger, containing at least 14 times the mass of Earth.

Carnegie scientists have led the way revealing results that have redefined what we thought we knew about Mercury and the other rocky planets.

Same as all the other rocky planets.