Sentences with phrase «studying icy objects»
She had to settle for an offer from ucla to study another icy object, a less glamorous asteroid called Pallas.
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They found the object was the same colour as some of the icy minor planets they had been studying in the outskirts of our solar system.
New Horizons, NASA's mission to the outer solar system, has been given a large chunk of time on the Hubble Space Telescope to assist an increasingly desperate search for an icy object the spacecraft can study after it hurtles past Pluto in July 2015, NASA headquarters announced today.
Ice worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune known as Trans - Neptunian Objects may have liquid oceans beneath their icy surface, a NASA study suggested.
Jim Green: The Snowball Earth era reminds me of several objects in the Solar System now that we're trying to study, one of which is Europa, [which has] got this fabulous icy crust over the whole moon and underneath it perhaps as much as twice the volume of water than exists here on Earth.