Sentence examples for Moon trailing from inspiring English sources
Using Hubble, they saw a second, much smaller dip in the star's brightness 3.5 hours after the planet's transit, hinting at "a moon trailing the planet like a dog following its owner on a leash".
Plasma may also be responsible for darkening the moons' trailing hemispheres (again, except Callisto's).
The plasma's co-rotation with the planet means that the plasma preferably interacts with the moons' trailing hemispheres, causing noticeable hemispheric asymmetries.
The left-hand panel shows the moon's leading hemisphere and the right-hand panel shows the moon's trailing side.
He arrived sometime between the Beatles and Led Zeppelin wearing a space-age metallic cape, singing about spiders from Mars, moon dust trailing out of his flaming orange hair.
But if you had a planet-moon system, and it was aligned with your line-of-sight, the planet would appear to move forward as the moon orbited to the trailing side, or backwards as the moon orbited to the leading side.
Slay meets Alexander Leipold, who pinned Eui-jae Moon of South Korea while trailing by 1-0 with 10 seconds left in overtime.
But on Iapetus, the leading hemisphere (that is, the side that faces the direction the moon orbits) is dark, while the trailing hemisphere is about 10 times brighter.
This bombardment may lead to the darkening of the trailing hemispheres observed for all Uranian moons except Oberon (see below).
After a series of highly eccentric Earth orbits with apogees beyond the moon, each spacecraft will use close flybys of the moon to escape into heliocentric orbits at 1 AU, with one spacecraft trailing Earth and the other leading Earth.
