Sentences with phrase «planetary body»

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

It is happening on every planetary body with an atmosphere in this solar system.

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 space.

The S - B Law applies to a planetary body in space without an atmosphere and relies on the planet reaching a thermal equilibrium whereby the amount of energy reaching the planet from the local star is matched by energy leaving that planet to space.

And yet as one decends into any atmosphere of any planetary body after the atmospheric density surpasss a given point temperature rises with pressure.

Temperature has nothing to do with energy balances on the surface of a planetary body.

It is my view that the atmosphere will always find a way to lose energy to deep space by some means at or near its top, and will thus always have a troposphere lapse rate which implies that the planetary body will always be warmer with an atmosphere (regardless of gas mix) than it would be without one.

Until or unless the planetary body is at the same temperature as deep space there will always be energy input at the bottom of the atmospheric column (and a temperature gradient) and there will always be heat loss by radiation (or some other means like boiling off of the atmosphere) at the top of the column.

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

But whether someone chooses to use the term Albedo or Bond albedo it doesn't appear as though anyone has actually got right the values for the Bond albedo on any planetary body or any object in space - and as result still getting a ballpark number.

The actual size of Space Glass pendants is small, featuring an opal at the centre that seems to represent some kind of planetary body.

Rante's constant investigation of existence in the environment is depicted through vibrant cyanotypes on Okawara paper, which reference a star map or a planetary body.

It keeps him in motion, like a satellite spinning around but never plunging into a planetary body.

Compelled by operations outside our experience, each planetary body moves in its own discrete cycles, heeding standards that are as foreign as they appear desultory.

When these bubbles come into contact with the birds, they either repel the birds (occurring during a glancing touch) or exert exponentially higher gravity on them the closer they are to the planetary body (the lower the orbit).

The makers of Elite Dangerous, Frontier Developments, do not handcraft every planetary body in the game.

The $ 1,000 backers received: «Your suggested name will be given to a starship or planetary body (your choice) in the Xenowealth universe.

Not quite round, Vesta's diameter is roughly 330 miles (530 kilometers) across, making it the second largest planetary body in the Main Asteroid Belt after Ceres.

On July 29, 2005, a team of astronomers (including Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz) announced the discovery of a planetary body (2005 FY9) that appeared to be somewhat smaller than Pluto (more from the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes and Licandro et al, 2006).

irregularly shaped planetary body, ranging from 6 meters (20 feet) to 933 kilometers (580 miles) in diameter, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

So when gas ratios are found in meteorites clearly from a planetary body the case for Mars is further validated.

Subsequent observations determined that the planetary body has an orbital period of 3.63 years, with a semi-major axis of around 2.36 AUs (slightly closer than Ceres's 2.77 AUs) and an eccentricity of 0.090 and an inclination of 7.14 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic (NASA factsheet).

In 1972, basaltic rocks (made of solidified lava) were detected on Vesta's surface, which indicated that the planetary body had melted early in its past.

NASA's observations of Vesta have confirmed that «HED» meteorites are fragments of that planetary body (more).

Extrasolar planet, also called exoplanet, any planetary body that is outside the solar system and that usually orbits a star other than the Sun.

Based on its high metal content and excluding the effects of gravitational compression, Mercury is the densest major planetary body in the Solar System, with about 1.2 times the uncompressed density of the Earth which averages 4.4 gm / cm3 (Murchie et al, Scientific American, March 2011).

Planetary body 2014 UZ224, also known as DeeDee (short for «distant dwarf»), has been getting a lot of attention from a team of scientists who've observed it using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.

However, many others argue that only planemos that directly orbit stars should qualify as planets, preferring to use the terms «planetary body,» «planetary mass object» or «planemo» for similar free - floating objects (as well as planet - size moons).

Now researchers claim that weirdly wobbling objects in the Kuiper Belt indicate the presence of yet another so - far - undiscovered planetary body at least as large as Mars.

ALMA image of the faint millimeter - wavelength «glow» from the planetary body 2014 UZ224, informally known as DeeDee.

Having traveled a grand total of 25 miles (40 km) over the course of its historic mission of exploration, NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has taken the record for the greatest distance traveled on another planetary body.

On December 13, 2005, a team of astronomers (led by Lynne Allen) announced the discovery of a new planetary body between one - fifth to one half the size of Pluto, found during routine operation of the Canada - France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS) as part of the Legacy Survey on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFEPS press release).

Tidal forces acting on Io are so pronounced that the satellite's interior is literaly molten, causing the moon to be the most volcanically active planetary body in the Solar System, sporting over 400 active volcanoes!

All of the potentially Earth - like worlds were spotted using the transit method, which measures dips in a star's light output as a planetary body crosses in front from our line of sight.

Usually, such an impact would cause intense shock waves to ripple through the planetary body, but Galileo couldn't find any evidence of this, leading scientists to theorize that a watery ocean could have softened the blow.

If these rays from the dying star were to wash over a once - frozen moon or exoplanet, the planetary body's icy layer would melt into liquid: setting the stage for life to form in a flowing ocean.

Gravitational microlensing works by a planetary body — or any body for that matter with significant mass, such as a brown dwarf or even a black hole — passing in front of a star.

An exoplanet is a planetary body that sits outside our solar system and orbits another star that is not our sun.

That's the region surrounding any star where it's not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to exist on a planetary body.

«However, Vesta is proving to be a very interesting and complex planetary body.»

New research suggests the diamonds packed inside these meteorites could have only formed within a planetary body the size of Mercury or Mars — a planet that no longer exists.

Such an intriguing metallic planetary body has not been studied before by any spacecraft; other asteroids visited have been of the rocky variety.

One holds that the impact occurred early in Earth's history; another posits that two later collisions in sequence were responsible'or else a planetary body much larger than Mars must have been involved.

Another planetary body, Saturn's largest moon Titan, also routinely comes up in discussions of extraterrestrial biology.

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.

They then superimposed maps of each planetary body's river networks, onto their respective topographies, and marked every river that appeared to flow downhill.

Just one month before Voyager's arrival, a research team had published the first serious model laying out how a liquid ocean could exist within a planetary body in the chilly outskirts of the solar system.

Researchers did not believe that there were any processes that could renew the surface of a relatively small, solid planetary body.

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

A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body.