Sentences with phrase «solid planet»

-- to use Earth and Solar System input of geophysical fluid dynamics and thermal evolution of solid planets and the tectonic, glacial and volcanic features that shape their surfaces to model and study a wide range of possible planets and moons inside and outside our own Solar System.

The same idea applies on Earth with respect to heat loss to the interior of solid planet — solids have a minor heat storage role when warming increases.

If pulled together, all this material would form a mass smaller than Earth's moon, but the immense gravitational force of Jupiter prevents the bits from coalescing into a solid planet.

«Rare isotopes will help us to understand how stars processed some of the hydrogen and helium gas from the Big Bang into elements that make up solid planets and life,» Wrede said.

«This material contributes significantly to the high elevation of the Martian southern hemisphere and underscores the role of major impacts in shaping the early surfaces of the solid planets,» says Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is a member of the mapping team.

Even so, it is hard to understand how just a few drops of water could affect the solid planet so profoundly.

We live on one solid planet, but because of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, Earth's core is actually 2 - and - a-half years younger than the surface, Science News reports.

A solid planet absorbs billions of times less heat than a planet's worth of dust orbiting its star at the same distance, because the dust has a total surface area that is billions of times greater.