Sentences with phrase «other solar system bodies»
Does anyone know of proxy climate records of other solar system bodies besides besides Mars, Triton, and Pluto?
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That is essentially true for any missions studying Phobos - Grunt's landing site with on - board instruments, says Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, who is charged with ensuring that agency projects do not contaminate other solar system bodies with terrestrial life.
«We also see fractures on other solar system bodies, such as Jupiter's icy moon Europa,» Quick said.
In 2015, he was studying evaporated salts on the surface of other solar system bodies such as the dwarf planet Ceres.
Fortunately, the risk of contaminating the Red Planet is extremely slim, says Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, who is charged with ensuring agency projects do not contaminate other solar system bodies.
A moon - trained AI that can apply its knowledge to other solar system bodies could help survey worlds where humans have yet to count many craters, says study coauthor Mohamad Ali - Dib, an astrophysicist at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
The other solar system body that has always intrigued me, for the very same reason, has been [Jupiter's moon] Europa.
Other solar system bodies that are possibly dwarf planets include Sedna and Quaoar, small worlds far beyond Pluto's orbit, and 2012 VP113, an object that is thought to have one of the most distant orbits found beyond the known edge of our solar system.
Other solar system bodies have stratospheres, too; methane is responsible for heating in the stratospheres of Jupiter and Saturn's moon Titan, for example.
What's intriguing, though, is that through the efforts of NASA and other such agencies, we now have some insight into the atmospheres of these other solar system bodies.