Sentences with phrase «solar system history»

All of those satellites could be remnants of one giant collision early in solar system history.

«The best place to answer those questions is on the moon,» he explains, given that its airless surface contains the scarcely altered imprints of 4.5 billion years of solar system history.

Their results, published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, imply that events from Solar System history that are recorded on much of the visible face of the Moon can one day be dated directly by instruments aboard a lunar lander.

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The model generally produces a cold and icy early Mars, partly because the sun's energy output is thought to have been much weaker early in solar system history.

«You can see from the surface a record of solar system history, building blocks of planets and precursors to life.»

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was part of an international team that recently discovered a relatively unpopulated region of the main asteroid belt, where the few asteroids present are likely pristine relics from early in solar system history.

The Kuiper Belt began to take shape 4.5 billion years ago, early in solar system history, and it has evolved separately from all the other worlds we know.

Having been created relatively recently in solar system history, this impact basin has accumulated fewer of the smaller craters that roughen the surface to the north (top of image and in this video).

The team showed through isotope analyses of meteorites that Jupiter's solid core formed within only about 1 million years after the start of the solar system history, making it the oldest planet.

Boulder, Colo. — Aug. 3, 2017 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was part of an international team that recently discovered a relatively unpopulated region of the main asteroid belt, where the few asteroids present are likely pristine relics from early in solar system history.

«Migration of the ice giants early in our solar systems history may be responsible for the late heavy bombardment of the inner solar system, though to have provided many of the volatiles (such as water) found on the terrestrial planets today.»

Because all the hafnium - 182 decayed to tungsten - 182 during the first 50 million years of Solar System history, these findings indicate that the mantle material that melted to form the flood basalt rocks that the team studied originally had more hafnium than the rest of the mantle.

«Stevenson and others are puzzling out how subtle differences in starting conditions such as distance from the sun, along with chance events like giant impacts early in the solar system history, can send planets down vastly different evolutionary paths.»