... B ut Europa's surface is not at all like anything in the inner solarsystem. ... would be the only place in the solarsystem besides Earth where liquid water exists ... Of the 61 moons in the solarsystem only four others ( Io , Ganymede , Titan and ...
... In addition, the entire solarsystem also moves through space, but that motion is ... Centauri, the sun-like star nearest to our solarsystem, has a distance of 4.3 years ... Next Stop: #9 The Discovery of the SolarSystem . Timeline Glossary . ...
... Alpha Centauri . The closest bright star to our solarsystem. angstrom . ... cosmic rays come from outside the solarsystem while others are emitted from the Sun ... the broundary of the heliopause containing the Sun and solarsystem. hemisphere ...
... D iscovered by Bond and Lassell in 1848. H yperion is the largest highly irregular (non-spherical) body in the solarsystem. ... Hyperion is the only known body in the solarsystem that rotates chaoticly but simulations seem to indicate that other ...
... possibility of a liquid ocean on Europa, the only other place in our solarsystem where we suspect such an ocean might exist ... possibility, and another step in our quest to explore the solarsystem, the stars, and the answer to the great mystery of ...
... extremely rarefied, fills space outside the solarsystem, the "interstellar medium ... molecules) therefore easily penetrate the solarsystem, until somewhere --say, near ...
... new clues to the origin of the solarsystem and the interior makeup of the rocky ... It provides a record of the long and complex evolution of our solarsystem ." ... of Vesta's ancient crust, formed near the time of the beginning of the solarsystem ...
... Introduction . The Sun is the most prominent feature in our solarsystem. ... is the largest object and contains approximately 98% of the total solarsystem mass ... Courtesy HAO eclipse team) . The SolarSystem Voyage to Mercury .. ...
... Neptune at the outer edge of the solarsystem, Voyager 2 needed a great deal of ... comets already extend to the edge of the solarsystem, and the ice found on them may ... A review of unusual orbits for solar-system exploration. ...