Sentences with phrase «ringed gas giant»

However, this doesn't mean a mission to Saturn will be off the cards; NASA hinted that a return trip to the ringed gas giant will also be planned in tandem (following in the footsteps of the Cassini Equinox Mission).

Here's another finding, courtesy of Juno: Unlike Saturn's enigmatic hexagonal (six - sided polygon) cloud structure over the ringed gas giant's north pole, Jupiter's northern cyclones form an octagonal (eight - sided) grouping.

Before meeting its fiery demise in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15, NASA's groundbreaking Cassini mission to Saturn had spent 13 years redefining our view of the beautiful ringed gas giant — but its discoveries went well beyond pure science.

After 13 years studying Saturn and its moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will plunge into the ringed gas giant's atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Jupiter's rings may not be as pronounced as Saturn's, but its ring system still extends to an impressive 140,000 miles away from the giant gas planet.

The spacecraft's final 22 orbits, dubbed the Grand Finale, sent Cassini into the potentially dangerous region between the gas giant and its rings, and its final orbit sent it directly into Saturn's atmosphere.

NEW ORLEANS — Saturn's mighty rings cast a long shadow on the gas giant — and not just in visible light.

Two days before plunging into Saturn, Cassini took a mosaic image of the gas giant, its rings and its moons.

But by 1989, after ground - based measurements and flybys from Voyagers 1 and 2, we had discovered rings around the other three gas giants — Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.

Robin Canup came to the moon problem from studies of planetary rings such as those girding the gas giants.

The ring system around the icy asteroid Chariklo is the first found encircling anything in our solar system other than a gas giant.

Majestic, ringed Saturn little resembles the relatively tiny blue marble that is Earth, but the massive gas giant planet is home to at least one phenomenon that would be familiar to high - latitude dwellers here on Earth.

The most recent Hubble observations show that the physical shockwave from the giant blast is just now reaching the innermost of three mysterious gas rings circling the dead star at a distance of two - thirds of a light year.

Recently detected ripples in the gas giant's rings carry signatures of the planet's interior structure, offering new insights into what lies far beneath Saturn's cloud tops.

Subtle vibrations in those rings are helping scientists explore the structure of the gas giant's interior.

But they fail to explain why Saturn's rings are mostly water ice, while other gas giants» are rocky, says Ryuki Hyodo at Kobe University in Japan.

Galactic magnetic fields, they suggest, are produced by a ring of electrically charged gas rotating around a giant black hole at the center of a galaxy.

This scenario could explain why Saturn's rings are made of different stuff from those of other gas giants.

Cassini Makes 8th Dive Through Saturn's Rings: The Cassini spacecraft has made its eighth dive between Saturn and its rings, documenting the planetary system up close as it prepares for its Grand Finale plunge into the gas giant on Sept. 15.

As far as the context, there are other objects besides Haumea or the gas giants with rings, too.

Cassini Probe Spots Weird Waves in Saturn's Rings: NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a spectacular photo of a perplexing wave structure in one of Saturn's rings as the probe headed into its final days at the gas giant.

New insights to Saturn's beautiful rings were gleaned, and a huge diversity of moons swarming around the gas giants was revealed.

They also hope to study «ring rain,» particles that escape from the gas giant's rings and flow into the planet itself, the website noted.

Margolis will take guests on a storytelling adventure through Cassini's mission — its perilous swings past gas giants, icy rings and moons that carry the precursors for life.

And, before its fatal plunge through the gas giant's atmosphere, the spacecraft will repeatedly dive through the space between Saturn and its rings, providing scientists best - ever views of the gigantic structures.

Here, we can see the whole thing, a gas giant like Jupiter, separated at last from the rings that encircle it.

Not only did the Cassini spacecraft manage to survive its first dive between Saturn and its rings on Wednesday, but it managed to obtain the closest images of the gas giant's atmosphere to date — including a picture of what...

But accumulating dust and dynamically interacting with Saturn's moons, the rings may eventually darken and sag toward the gas giant, losing their lustre over the next few hundred million years.

Uniquely bright compared to the rings of the other gas giants, Saturn's ring system is around 250,000 kilometers wide but in places only a few tens of meters thick.