Sentence examples for distant moon from inspiring English sources

The spinning asteroid would have elongated and slowly thrown out the most distant moon.

The fragile ecosystem of that imaginary distant moon Pandora has impacted fashion in color, texture and feeling.

Its influence can be profoundly felt in "Avatar," with its tentacled sea creatures — spiritually aware jellyfish — floating through the thickened atmosphere of the distant moon Pandora.

I'll be in my airtight shuttle for a month and a half, going to some distant moon, where I'll pick up the cure for my leukemia.

In particular, I wondered if he shared nasa's concern that if Galileo were to crash into the distant moon it could transfer microbes from Earth to Europa's ocean.

Enceladus's 33-hour trip around Saturn is one-half that of the more distant moon Dione; the two bodies are thus associated in an orbital resonance.

Rhea hovers above three distant moons.

Astronomers hope to send out new crafts to rocks like Pluto and the distant moons of our solar system — but getting funding for them can often be politically difficult.

We have learned too that planets need not closely resemble Earth to potentially harbor life; subsurface oceans on distant moons like Saturn's Enceladus and Titan, for instance, could support microbial organisms.

"Understanding more about the nature of the magnetic field of Earth's moon could shed light on the magnetic fields of distant moons and planets, which could influence their habitability". Boston Globe reporter Martin Finucane writes that a new study co-authored by MIT researchers provides evidence that the moon's magnetic field lasted 1 billion years longer than previously thought.

And if that mitigation seems like a bit of a stretch (in the future, how likely is it that scientific laboratories on distant moons will allow what their earthbound counterparts forbid today?), what about some of the other recent instances tarred, as it were, by the opprobrium of Smoke-Free Movies?