Sentences with phrase «system over the eons»
Whizzing asteroids and comets have battered Earth and all the other solid bodies of our solar system over the eons, but the ethereal rings of the giant planets seemed immune.
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The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters through the process of sparking — a finding that could change our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system.
Such a radiation bath would have vaporized most of Mercury's crust, and over the eons the solar wind would have blown the remnants back out into the solar system.
Sandblasted by interstellar dust gains and irradiated over eons, long - period comets from the Oort Cloud are not exactly pristine relics from the birth of the Solar System (more).