Sentences with phrase «western lobe»

Researchers have focused on the heart's western lobe, informally named Sputnik Planitia, a deep basin containing three kinds of ices — frozen nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide — and appearing opposite Charon, Pluto's large, tidally locked moon.

The video begins in the mountainous region of southwest Pluto and travels over Sputnik Planitia, a vast lowland of nitrogen ice that makes up the western lobe of the heart - shaped Tombaugh Regio.

Of particular interest is the heart's western lobe, informally named Sputnik Planitia, a deep basin containing three kinds of ices — frozen nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide — and appearing opposite Charon, Pluto's tidally locked moon.

The research focused on Sputnik Planum, a basin 900 kilometers across that makes up the western lobe the famous heart - shaped feature revealed during the New Horizons flyby.

Not exact matches

Daniel Ansari, a cognitive scientist at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, says that while the new findings appear to disagree, both studies suggest «that the left parietal lobe is more finely tuned to the symbolic representation of numerical magnitude.»

This field guide examines the evidence for multiple readvances of the Superior lobe, as well as the morphological and sediment record of glacial lakes in the western Lake Superior basin.