Sentences with phrase «small moons named»

Large dust storms frequently occur on Mars, and two, small moons named Phobos and Deimos orbit the planet [source: NASA].

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At the moon's south pole, Cassini's high - resolution camera sighted such a liquid body close to the size of Lake Ontario (and hence named Ontario Lacus) amid a district of smaller similar features.

On the near side of the moon, on the shore of the lunar plain known as the Sea of Tranquility, there is a small triangular mountain that had no name.

I had picked a small but well - formed crater just over the lunar horizon to be «Anders», since it could not be seen from Earth and thus had not been named by early moon gazers.

The pitch was to buy and install a small supercomputer, which he would name for the biggest donor, to speed up data processing on a search for moons in other solar systems.

Mars has two very small moons, Phobos and Demos, which are named for the horses that pulled the Roman god's chariot.

Named by Algonquin tribes as the «Strawberry Moon» for a time of ripening fruit, the June full moon is also being called a «mini-moon» (or apogee moon) since it's the smallest full moon of 2017 at its furthest point away from Earth — making it the opposite of a supermMoon» for a time of ripening fruit, the June full moon is also being called a «mini-moon» (or apogee moon) since it's the smallest full moon of 2017 at its furthest point away from Earth — making it the opposite of a supermmoon is also being called a «mini-moon» (or apogee moon) since it's the smallest full moon of 2017 at its furthest point away from Earth — making it the opposite of a supermmoon» (or apogee moon) since it's the smallest full moon of 2017 at its furthest point away from Earth — making it the opposite of a supermmoon) since it's the smallest full moon of 2017 at its furthest point away from Earth — making it the opposite of a supermmoon of 2017 at its furthest point away from Earth — making it the opposite of a supermoon.

Hired to retrieve some missing children from a small village, they discover that a dark witch named Muriel (Famke Janssen) plans to sacrifice them during the upcoming Blood Moon in an attempt to make all witches immune to fire.

That look, despite the shape being nothing like a small moon, is what made me think Death Star would be an appropriate name.

«The President put his name on the plaque Armstrong and Aldrin left on the moon and he telephoned them while they were there, but he cut America's space budget to the smallest total since John Glenn orbited the Earth.