Sentences with phrase «planetary scientists suspect»

synestia The somewhat flattened, jelly - doughnut - like shape that some planetary scientists suspect Earth may have developed after undergoing a violent collision early in its infancy.

First, planetary scientists suspect that cyanide was abundant on early Earth, deposited here by comets or created in the atmosphere by ultraviolet light or by lightning (once the atmosphere became oxygen rich, 2.5 billion years ago, the process would have stopped).

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is indeed the complex and captivating place that planetary scientists suspected.

Not exact matches

Scientists have long suspected that our planetary companion was built when a Mars - sized body — commonly known as Theia — struck the young Earth, throwing molten rock into orbit that coalesced into the Moon.

Planetary scientists have long suspected there was something strange about Saturn's 140 - mile - wide satellite Phoebe.

Sasselov is working with planetary scientists and cosmochemists to answer these questions by analyzing concentrations of molecules in the universe and on the extrasolar planets they suspect may harbor life.

Planetary scientists have long suspected that the huge moon Triton is an interloper from outside the Neptune system.