Sentences with phrase «seen on a comet»

«This kind of process is seen on comets, but we didn't really expect to see a cycle of sublimation and condensation in action on Ceres.»

Not exact matches

Unicorns can run on comet tails and jump from one solar system to the next which is why we never see one...

Nodules seen in fresh pit walls and cliff faces on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko could be the fundamental units of comet formation.

Still, Chapman says, he would not be surprised to see water ice on asteroids, adding that the distinction between comets, traditionally considered to be icy, and asteroids, which have been largely thought of as rocky, is becoming increasingly blurred.

Astronomers based their analysis of comet Lovejoy, published last Friday in Science Advances, on observations made in January when the comet passed so close to the sun it could be seen with the naked eye.

«It's been looked for [on comets] spectroscopically with telescopes but the content seems so low you can't see it that way.»

When the astronauts go to the comet, they can't land on it due to its weak gravity, so instead they tether themselves to it (I literally cheered when I saw that scene in the theater).

Observers around the world saw Jupiter whacked by impacts on three occasions, including the dramatic multiple beating it took in 1994 by the comet Shoemaker - Levy 9.

PHILAE FOUND The landing spot of the Philae comet lander (left, and bottom right), seen in this September 2 image from the Rosetta spacecraft, has been hiding on comet 67P (top right) since November 2014.

The long exposure means we can see details on the comet's surface, along with jets of gas emerging as it heats up on its journey towards the sun.

But he is pleased to see that such molecules can indeed form on comets.

One can grab dust ejected from the comet and place it under an on - board microscope to see what it's made of.

Halley's has become famous because «it's the only short - period comet that a human can count on seeing in his lifetime,» says Bill Cooke, lead at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.

COVER View of a cliff and gravel field on the small lobe of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko from a distance of 8 kilometers to the surface, as seen by Rosetta / OSIRIS.

In recently published papers in the Nature Astronomy and Science journals, Pajola and colleagues explained how what he had seen was the first observation of a landslide on a comet.

According to observations made by NASA and ESA orbiters, the extremely close flyby of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring was accompanied by a meteor shower larger than any seen on Earth.

«Which was a bit of a shame because we wanted to see the effects of the comet on the atmosphere.»

The dot in the cross-hairs is the 3,000 th comet discovered by the NASA / European Space Agency Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), as seen on Sept. 14, 2015.

[To learn how comets probably gained argon, see Endnote 35 on page 333.]

PREDICTION 32: Because the solar system is slightly «heavier» than previously thought, some comet pairs listed in Table 18 are the same comet seen on successive orbits.

Howell said he would be interested to learn what Kepler might see if it trained its eye on a black hole or a comet — neither of which it has examined thus far.

A British and American joint shuttle mission (aboard the shuttle Churchill) is up above the earths atmosphere doing research on the comet when they notice something weird clinging onto the front of it and they get a radar readout and see that it is a craft of some sort, the crew is able to get the shuttle close enough to do a spacewalk and investigate the craft and Col. Tom Carlsen takes his crew into an open spot and sees hundreds of dead bat like creatures, and they have been drained of all of their fluids.

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The 100 kg Rosetta Lander was the first spacecraft ever to make a soft landing on the surface of a comet through the European Space Agency, see image; an incredible achievement for Space exploration.

And indeed it would be virtually impossible to show it was other than mere chance that comet impacts occurred at the right time, especially given that it would still be necessary to show that the ice sheet would care about comets, which we also consider unlikely (see the good discussion — particularly Mauri Pelto's comments — on this over at the Open Mind Blog).