Sentences with phrase «surface of other planets»

Life that would die on the surface of other planets or moons might be able to survive deep below.

We've been to the bottom of our oceans, we been to the surface of our moon, we've sent robots hundreds of thousands of miles to explore the surface of other planets.

The surfaces of other planets like Mars are much more susceptible to cosmic rays because of their thin atmospheres and, in the case of Mars, its lack of a magnetic field.

Not exact matches

Even around the surface of the planet we can still take them for granted — there is only a momentary delay when we telephone someone on the other side of the earth.

We talked for a while about how the surfaces of Mars and other planets, despite being tens or hundreds of millions of miles away, are far more accessible than Earth's core.

In addition to the waves that distort Earth's surface and cause so much destruction, earthquakes spawn two other types of seismic energy that ricochet through the body of the entire planet.

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

Spacecraft orbiting other planets won't be any help this time around for the same reason, but another set of instruments will step up: solar observatories like SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, all of which are designed to stare straight at the sun's surface.

When an asteroid or other body strikes a planet at high speed, tons of material from both the impactor and the target surface are instantly vaporized.

The other runner - up, VICI (Venus In situ Composition Investigations), would send two landers to different locations on the surface of Earth's sister world, to learn how this once - temperate planet transformed into its current hellish state.

On the other hand, small stars tend to be more active than stars the size of our Sun, sending out more solar flares and potentially more radiation toward a planet's surface.

Plate tectonics has shaped the Earth's surface for billions of years: Continents and oceanic crust have pushed and pulled on each other, continually rearranging the planet's façade.

It found that small particles existing at 150 km or higher above Earth's surface could be knocked beyond the limit of Earth's gravity by space dust and eventually reach other planets.

They can be observed on other planets, too: Many of the formations on the surface of Mars are a result of aeolian processes.

Fissures and fractures around Tombaugh Regio and other parts of the planet suggested a subsurface layer of watery slush might be slowly solidifying, breaking up the surface as it expands like ice cubes in a freezer — but other, drier possibilities could also explain such cracks.

Together with his daughter Wendy and other colleagues at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, he was using the device to test materials at pressures many millions of times higher than those at the Earth's surface — higher even than in our planet's core — by squeezing them between two tiny diamond jaws.

«The big question is, Do they form in molecular clouds as a star is forming,» asks Widicus Weaver, «or do they form once you have a planet or some other chunk of rock where chemistry can occur on the surface?»

This means that, in comparison to Planet Earth, relatively small amounts of liquid water moving across Mars» surface could form the large dune flows, gullies and other features, which characterise the Red Planet.

These telescopes rely on detecting any Doppler shifting of the parent star caused by an orbiting planet tugging it this way and that, but this method is vulnerable to interference from eruptions on the star's surface and other distractions.

Unlike images that depict the Red Planet's surface in terms of elevation alone (bright colors from white through red to blue), the new map (muted colors) breaks the planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other faPlanet's surface in terms of elevation alone (bright colors from white through red to blue), the new map (muted colors) breaks the planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other faplanet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other factors.

Visible light can't pierce Venus's thick shroud of clouds, so most of what astronomers know about the planet's surface comes from observations in radar and other wavelengths.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

If we go out into the solar wind, which is the gas that emanates from the surface of the sun and blows past the Earth and the other planets, that also is full of plasma.

If you imagine the female egg cell (and later, the fertilized egg) as a spherical planet with its own intrinsic biological geography, then certain characteristics of that cell — the location of protein molecules or RNA messages or biochemical traits like pH or even the internal connective structures called microtubules — will be more prominent in certain regions, like one hemisphere as opposed to the other, or near the surface rather than near the core.

Observations of the composition of Mercury's surface by NASA's Messenger probe, which has been orbiting the planet since March, seem to have ruled out other explanations for its high density.

If confirmed by further research, the new study would challenge a theoretical model for atmosphere formation in which Earth began with two reservoirs of solar gas captured during the planet's formation and youth — one surrounding the planet, the other buried beneath the surface.

Astronomers also use NIRC2 to map surface features of solar system bodies, detect planets orbiting other stars, and study detailed morphology of distant galaxies.

Phobos orbits closer to a major planet than any other moon in the solar system, less than 6000 km (3728 miles) above the surface of Mars, and is also one of the smaller known moons in the solar system.

«We're really just scratching the surface of being able to visualize transformations during shock compression in real time via snapshots with LCLS, and in understanding the states of materials in the interior of our own planet and other planets,» said Gleason.

As NASA makes plans to one day send humans to Mars, one of the key technical gaps the agency is working to fill is how to provide enough power on the Red Planet's surface for fuel production, habitats and other equipment.

Titan is the second largest moon in the solar system, after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and it's sometimes called a planet - like moon: It's the only other world in our neighborhood to feature stable bodies of liquid on its surface, and it has a thick atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen.

Other structures that can be seen in the photo are Sinus Sabaeus and Sinus Meridiani — long dark features south of Arabia Terra — and the Syrtis Major Planitia — one of the earliest features identified on the surface of the planet.

The surfaces of carbon planets may be covered with a layer of long - chain carbon compounds — in other words, something like crude oil or tar.

Artifacts of human or other industrial civilizations are unlikely to be found on a planet's surface after about 4 million years, wrote Frank and study co-author Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

The vast network of crisscrossing cracks that are seen on the surface of Europa are caused by the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons of the Jovian system, similar to the way that the gravity of the Earth's Moon causes tides on the oceans of our home planet.

It speaks to the very heart of trying to understand how life may have evolved not just on earth but on other terrestrial bodies both in our own solar system and indeed around other stars that have planets that lie in the so - called «habitable zone» (where liquid water can exist on the surface).

The abundance of water vapor, oxygen, methane, and other organic compounds in the atmosphere could be evidence of an active biosphere on the surface of a planet.

However, photographs and other data from spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that water once flowed on the surface of the red planet and is still present in large quantities underground.

Unlike the nine other orbiters that NASA has blasted toward Mars over the last 40 years, the MAVEN spacecraft — short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution — will set its sights on the thin shell of air swirling above the Red Planet's dry and frigid surface.

A sample of dozens of exoEarths opens up the opportunity to identify truly Earth - like worlds with rocky surfaces and oceans, amidst a complex zoo of other varieties of terrestrial planets.

The discovery team presumes that VP113 has an icy reflective surface like other relatively small, outer Solar System objects, as the dwarf planet is observed to have a pink tinge, which is hypothesized to result from chemical changes produced by the effect of radiation on frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide.

PULLMAN, Wash. — The answer to your question takes us out into our solar system and deep below the surfaces of other moons and planets.

Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system.

Other theories have suggested that geological forces such as mountain building have, at different times in the planet's history, introduced large amounts of new material to the Earth's surface, and weathering of that material has drawn CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Other factors also suggest Mars once had a much thicker atmosphere, such as evidence of persistent presence of liquid water on the planet's surface long ago even though the atmosphere is too scant for liquid water to persist on the surface now.

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I also believe that tomorrow, Dec. 13, 2016, unicorns will roam free on the surface of the Earth, emerging from the depths of the interior of our planet, and wage war on humanity for our cruelty to animals and each other.

The surfaces of planets and moons alike feel barren and remind you of the stream of images NASA releases from surfaces other than on Earth.

The planets we'll be able to visit are reported to be huge, planet - sized sandbox environments that will have, among other unannounced points of interest: Surface starports, crashed ships, mineral deposits, and hidden bases.

New powerups include a drill that Mario uses to tunnel through the planet's surface all the way to the other side of a planet.