Sentences with phrase «weak gravity»

in the midst of all of the terrestrial «noise» such as seismic events, sound waves, random laser fluctuations, and thermal effects of the materials used that can easily overwhelm the very weak gravity wave ripples of spacetime.

Each weighed more than 180 lbs on Earth, but just one - sixth as much in the moon's weaker gravity field.

Because Phobos has no atmosphere and only weak gravity, they say, it would be easier for a spacecraft to land there than on Mars.

While space's weaker gravity aged him, this was outweighed by the rejuvenating effect of his high speed.

Because they are far from Earth's center, they experience weaker gravity than we do on the ground, so their clocks run just a bit faster.

Titan's weaker gravity lets its atmosphere extend far higher than on the Earth, with the stratosphere starting at 40 kilometres and reaching up to a few hundred kilometres.

Five gaping holes, created by giant impacts, dominate one side of Mathilde, and the asteroid is so lightweight, says Bell, that it must be either full of ice (but there's no sign of water) or a loosely packed pile of rocks held together by their own weak gravity.

Vesta's weak gravity allows the existence of lofty peaks that would sink and compress under their own weight on Earth.

The extreme dryness of the rock and the moon's weak gravity meant tubes a kilometre or more in diameter could remain stable,...

To learn more, researchers in Japan examined cucumber seedlings germinated under the very weak gravity — or microgravity — conditions of the International Space Station.

Galaxies with less dark matter than those found to date would have weaker gravity, allowing their stars to spread out more.

Drilling there would be an engineering challenge, but space mining expert Dale Boucher of NORCAT in Sudbury, Ontario, says it would be possible, and the weak gravity would make it easy to transport the water away.

The equations for calculating river depth on Earth apply just as well on Mars, despite Mars» weaker gravity.

When the astronauts go to the comet, they can't land on it due to its weak gravity, so instead they tether themselves to it (I literally cheered when I saw that scene in the theater).

But in the inner disk, warm gas would fight against the planet's weak gravity, so the cold and dense gas of the outer disk is the more likely womb.

But with Titan's weaker gravity, the drops might grow larger and fall more slowly.

Because, uniquely, gravity is not yet described by a quantum theory, it's not easy to quantify the problem's size, but one measure is the Planck mass, a quantity that gets bigger the weaker gravity is.

Because of Dawn's enormous solar panels and Vesta's weak gravity, even the pressure of sunlight on the spacecraft must be accounted for to maintain the desired orbit.

Charon, with its weaker gravity, has lost the substances that can turn to vapour and escape more easily, and is mostly water - ice tainted by ammonia.

In the weak gravity, it reached a height of a kilometer and may have flown laterally another kilometer.

If the asteroid's spin rate became fast enough, Jewitt said, the asteroid's weak gravity would no longer be able to hold it together.

The observations support our current understanding that the upper atmosphere of Mars, when compared to Venus and Earth, is only tenuously bound by the Red Planet's weak gravity.»

The weak gravity of the moon would allow the outburst to spread far and high.

Researchers in Japan have examined cucumber seedlings germinated under the very weak gravity — or microgravity — conditions of the International Space Station.

Because of this weak gravity they do not have enough force to pull themselves into a round shape.

We know that it exerts some weak gravity on normal matter.

They form when a planet's gravity captures material from a passing asteroid or material expelled from a nearby moon — by a volcano, a geyser, tidal effects, or the impact of a comet or meteorite.c Debris that escapes a moon or asteroid because of its weak gravity and the giant planet's gigantic gravity then orbits that planet as a ring.

Thanks to its weak gravity, if you stepped off one of its nine - mile - high cliffs, you wouldn't reach the ground until half an hour later.

This is speculative - I am not sure the science is correct, but... correcting for a weaker gravity, the Venusian atmosphere should produce