Sentences with phrase «outer planet satellites»

Worked in Class -100 cleanroom fabricating Micro Electro - Mechanical Systems for missions to the solar system's primitive bodies and outer planet satellites.

Not exact matches

Rotating independently of the planet, turning at a different speed within a fluid outer core, this solid, satellite - size sphere holds clues to understanding Earth's earliest history and perhaps even life on the planet.

The surfaces of some moons in the outer solar system have been reworked as well, but unlike Pluto, those satellites are under the influence of gravity from a host planet.

«Irregular satellites of planets in the outer Solar System are the only population of objects dominated by retrograde motion relative to the parent body, but their origin is not clear.»