Sentences with phrase «than the moon»

But, you may ask, the sun is so much larger than the moon, so how does this work?

The sun is a lot further away than the moon!

Now, you are all ready to shine brighter than moon.

On average, the earth is warmer than the moon, about 15 degrees C, due to geothermal warming.

Well, the universe is a very different thing than the moon, an extremely different thing.

But there are worse things to dream of than the moon.

Imagine looking up at the night sky and seeing planets looming larger than our moon.

With no power (nor ambient light other than the moon) and 6 pm sunsets, your headlamp will be your nighttime buddy.

«We look at Google's AlphaGo victory as more important than the moon landing,» says Gavin Baker, manager of the $ 14.8 billion Fidelity OTC Portfolio, which invests largely in high - growth Nasdaq stocks and other tech firms.

«I try to imagine how it would be to stand on the surface of this icy object — small enough that a fast sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space — and stare up at a 20 - kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the Moon.»

Only discovered sixteen days ago, the 400 - metre - wide asteroid will fly past Earth at a safe distance slightly farther than the Moon's orbit on 31 October at 5:05 pm GMT.

Earth's mantle — the layer between the crust and the outer core — is home to a primordial soup even older than the moon.

This makes WASP - 12b two times less reflective than our Moon which has an albedo of 0.12 [2].

Noble as human exploration may be, we would know very little about anything in the cosmos much more distant than the moon were it not for robotic explorers.

Although it may be counterintuitive that Apollo 8, rather than the moon landing seven months later, should mark the high point of public support for the space program, McCurdy sees some reasons for this.

24 Tides The sun is much bigger than the moon.

Recent performances include Darker Than the Moon, Smaller Than the Sun, The Studio Museum in Harlem (2014) and All the King's Horses... None of His Men, Third Streaming (2013).

Yet the Earth and the moon are virtually the same distance from the sun, so why do we experience much less heat and cold than the moon?

While the Earth is only 71.9 F. 178.1 degrees cooler than the Moon which has no atmosphere to block out the Sun's radiation.

For comparison, the Earth is 81.3 times more massive than the Moon.

Back through the orchard, back to the hedge, through the brambles, into the meadow, across to the willow stump — Then a stronger, yellower light than the moon stabbed the sky.

There's pretty much nothing more romantic than moon glow, which is why the Napa Valley Wine Train's Moonlight Escape excursion probably beats most regular date nights.

I think that's why it's important to get a self - sustaining base, ideally on Mars, because it's more likely to survive than a moon base,» Musk said at the SXSW.

Born in the Land of the Rising Sun, We are the True Buddha, far more glorious than the moon.

I remember Warren Moon smiling after the play - off loss to Bears in 1/95, and my brother said to me, «I guarantee you are more upset about this loss than Moon is.»

That leaves a paltry six months to negotiate a deal that David Davis has called «more complicated than the moon landing» - and the same amount of time it took just to agree the divorce bill and previously uncontroversial issue of citizens» rights.

Unfortunately, pulling off a similar maneuver at Mars (or anywhere else) seemed impossible because the Red Planet's velocity is much higher than the Moon's.

Though it is the closest planet to the sun, Mercury appears to have up to 400 times more ice than the moon does, by Siegler's estimate.

When our solar system swings around in 100 million years, the curtain will rise and this billion - solar - mass galaxy will appear as the largest entity in the night sky, 40 times wider than the moon.

Zubrin passionately argued that the space agency must aim for a more ambitious target, asserting that with «gutsy leadership» a visit to Mars could be closer to reality than a moon landing was at the dawn of the Apollo program in 1961.

Further calculations showed that the object, named 1996 JA1, would pass by at less of a distance than the moon is from Earth, spawning the first widespread media coverage of an asteroid threat.

New, improved human - operated and robotic submarines promise to give scientists access to most of the ocean floor, a place less explored than the moon or Mars

If the rocks on the farside of the moon are older than those on the side that faces Earth, that would support his «second impact» hypothesis because the smaller moon would have cooled sooner than our moon, and so its rocks would be older than those of the moon itself.

Radio waves bouncing off the moon could be used to mark the start of a new Islamic month since their arrival is more reliable than the moon's visible light

In the Earth - moon system, tides cause the moon to slowly drift away from Earth - a side effect of the fact that Earth's rotation is much quicker than the moon's orbital motion.

The situation on Ceres is more similar to that on Mercury than the moon.

During its historic flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft has not forgotten about Pluto's giant, airless moon Charon, which is 20 times closer to Pluto than the moon is to Earth.

That's important, because both moons are much closer to Mars than our moon is to Earth.

[7] Mercury's surface is also flexed by significant tidal bulges raised by the Sun — the Sun's tides on Mercury are about 17 percent stronger than the Moon's on Earth.

Unlike the Moon, the surface of Mercury has a slightly pinkish cast, and the planet is much denser than the Moon (5.3 versus 3.3 gm / cm3).

In general, Pluto is somewhat brighter and pinker than its moon Charon.

I found it to be more interesting than Avatar, less pretentious than moon.

The setting is ostensibly the here and now — except that there just happens to be an «Earth 2,» an apparently identical planet that is now more prominent in the sky than the moon.

Brainstorm additional adjectives and practice (as a group) putting them into sentences (example: The sun is hotter than the moon.

Time travel cropped up a couple of times — I thought it was deader than the moon, but time - travel + romance does seem to be doing Okay.