Sentences with phrase «with rocky surfaces»

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.

«Most of the planets in the first group may be akin to the Earth, with rocky surfaces and little to no atmospheres.

All are expected to be small planets with a rocky surface, though they may have a wide range of temperatures and atmospheric conditions.

The route from Maneybhanjang to Sandakphu is, essentially a pony trail with a rocky surface and steep inclines.

Not exact matches

Safety is most important and with rocky and slippery surfaces it is better to be safe than sorry.

Researchers have found a host of Earth - like planets, and are trying to understand what conditions might be like at the surface of a planet with a rocky core and a thick atmosphere.

The presence of sea salt on Europa's surface suggests the ocean is interacting with its rocky seafloor — an important consideration in determining whether the icy moon could support life.

Until recently, that rule led scientists to think only in terms of places just like home: temperate, rocky planets with bodies of liquid water on their surfaces.

From those densities, they estimate that the fourth planet out from the star, known as TRAPPIST - 1e, is the rockiest of the seven and the most Earth - like, with the possibility of liquid water on its surface.

Some of those discovered so far appear to be rocky, whereas others seem to be fluffy and gaseous, or even to be «waterworlds» with deep oceans covering their entire surfaces.

Dippers, which are equipped with a transparent second eyelid (think water goggles for birds), dive below the river's surface and walk the riverbed scouring the rocky floor for meals, mostly aquatic insects in their larval stage.

But in many instances, the simulations show, even planets starting with rocky cores as little as 1.5 Earth's mass may trap and hold atmospheres containing between 100 and 1000 times the amount of hydrogen found in the water in Earth's oceans — thick, dense envelopes exerting pressures so hellish that life on the planets» surfaces might be almost impossible.

Planets that are smaller (i.e. 1.5 Earth radii or less) or have less hydrogen and helium early in their lives turn into dense, rocky planets with solid surfaces, while larger planets or those with more gas turn into Neptune - like planets with no discernable solid surface and thick atmospheres.

In 2003, astronomers at the University of Texas at Arlington performed refined calculations to determine that the habitable zone around 47 Ursae Majoris, where an inner rocky planet (with suitable mass and atmospheric gas composition and density) can have liquid water on its surface, lies between 1.05 and 1.83 AUs of the star.

This artist's impression is an imagining of Proxima b's hypothetical rocky surface with a hazy atmosphere.

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A world with an iron core, rocky mantle and enough water on the surface to create liquid water oceans that could support life.

Owing to its extremely small size, similar to that of Earth's Moon, and highly irradiated surface, Kepler - 37b is probably a rocky planet with no atmosphere or water, similar to Mercury.

The surface of 51 Pegasi «b» as an extremely hot, supermassive rocky planet with a dense atmosphere, as imagined by Kulmann (more).

It's not just ships zapping each other with lasers in the dark void of space; there's a caterpillar surface transport crawling over the rocky volcanic moonscape, a shoot - out with a fleet of flying saucers, a mind - controlled assassin sabotaging a human rocketship and of course the alien assault on Earth landmarks in the final battle.

For the Santa Fe the problem seemed to be the 19 - inch Hankook tyres, which are quiet on bitumen and fairly grippy in bends, but left rubber behind on one rocky surface, even with the centre differential locked.

Further south lies the rocky outcrop of Koh Bon Island with regular manta ray sightings especially between February and April when upwelling currents concentrate planktonic food near the surface.

These beaches range in size and surfaces, with some beaches such as the Baths of Aphrodite beach being a pebble beach, Latchi beach is long and sandy and between Lara and Cape Arnaoutis there are lots of small rocky and sandy beaches.

There was an open area on the rocky surface at the water level, which was completely packed with people, waiting in line to be able to jump into the cenote from a platform above the water and another line to climb down one of the four wooden ladders into the water.

Once heated, the waters rise to surface, taking with them minerals found in the Earth's rocky crust.

In combination with a booster and jump capability it makes for a rather fun way to tackle the often rocky and mountainous terrain of the planet surfaces.

Sometimes it's a simple case of having Trico lift you up to a platform with a switch or level hidden away, other times it's asking Trico to leap from cliffside to cliffside, barely clinging onto the rocks tumbling down the rocky surface.

«Planets in our Solar System with atmospheres can be divided into two types: What we call rocky planets, i.e., those with solid surfaces and relatively thin atmospheres, and giant planets, which are primarily gaseous with very thick atmospheres,» explained Anthony Del Genio, a planetary scientist at GISS.

The temperature of the Earth's surface is, quite reasonably thought to be higher than that of a comparable rocky planet with no atmosphere by about 30C.