Sentences with phrase «surface by meteor»

Not exact matches

The satellite has been pounded by so many meteors for such a long period of time that astronomers suspect it is one of the oldest surfaces in Saturn's system.

Detection of the falling meteor by Doppler weather radar allowed for rapid recovery so that scientists could study for the first time a primitive meteorite with little exposure to the elements, providing the most pristine look yet at the surface of primitive asteroids.

Direct photographs of a meteor's trail (the column of ionized gases formed by the passage of a meteoric body through the upper atmosphere) taken at two points on the Earth's surface several kilometres apart yield the most accurate data for tracing the path of a meteor.

Another process that the scientists investigated was lithopanspermia — the means by which life - bearing material on one planet can be ejected by meteor impacts and delivered to the surface of another planet.