Sentence examples for rocky body from inspiring English sources
You walk around on Gaia's gigantic rocky body.
It was the most likely of the known exoplanets to be a solid, rocky body like Earth.
Pluto has a moon and an atmosphere, but its icy, rocky body is more like a comet's core than like any of the other planets.
Mercury, a small, rocky body slightly larger than Earth's moon, is difficult to study with spacecraft because of its proximity to the heat and brightness of the Sun.
Photographs transmitted by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1979 and confirmed by the Galileo orbiter in the late 1990s show that Amalthea is an irregular rocky body measuring 262 × 146 × 134 km (163 × 91 × 83 miles).
"At this stage in its existence, all that remains of this rocky body is simply dust and debris that has been pulled into the orbit of its dying parent star," said Professor Boris Gänsicke of the University of Warwick.
They therefore remained small rocky bodies.
Soon it became apparent there was a ring of rocky bodies between Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroids are the solar system's most veteran castaways: rocky bodies, in orbit around the sun, left over from the formation of the solar system.
The two Galilean moons closest to the planet, Io and Europa, are rocky bodies, while the more-distant Ganymede and Callisto are half ice.
For example, NASA announced a $250,000 prize for extracting oxygen from the lunar regolith.Where the Earth has soil, other rocky bodies in the solar system have regolith.
