Sentences with phrase «second icy moon»

Not exact matches

The second mission extension provided dozens of flybys of the planet's icy moons, using the spacecraft's remaining rocket propellant along the way.

The southern pole of Saturn's 300 - mile - wide moon spits an average of 56 gallons of water a second into space via geysers in its icy surface.

We've caught Jupiter's icy moon spitting into space a second time - which means it could be easy for a future spacecraft to scoop up a sample and find life

The icy fragments would have encircled the solar system's second largest planet as rings and eventually spalled off small moons of their own that are still there today, says Robin Canup, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo..

Striding through the icy tunnels of Hoth as Darth Vader, cutting down rebel scum with ease; battling the Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor as Luke Skywalker while the Empire's dreaded AT - AT stomps ever closer to victory; watching as a X-Wing comes screaming downwards for a perfect strafing run on an AT - ST; feeling a chill run down my spin as a team - mate is suddenly yanked up into the air and choked to death, the sure sign that I'm seconds away from death as Darth Vader himself comes into view; defending an AT - AT as nothing more than a Stormtrooper, witnessing raging battle on both land in the sky.