Sentence examples for tenuous atmosphere from inspiring English sources

The place may have a tenuous atmosphere.

Rhea has a tenuous atmosphere of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Io has a very tenuous atmosphere, composed in large part of sulfur dioxide.

In addition, Mariner 10's spectral measurements showed that Mercury has an extremely tenuous atmosphere.

With each pass, the drag produced by the tenuous atmosphere shaves about five minutes from a full orbit.

Its other instruments have collected intriguing data regarding the magnetic field and the tenuous atmosphere of molecules that are blasted off the planet's surface by the Sun's radiation.

"Ladee, by going to the moon, has actually allowed us to visit other worlds with similar tenuous atmospheres and dusty environments".

Comets striking the moon may have left more than craters: Their tenuous atmospheres may have scoured away loose soil, thus brightening the lunar surface when viewed from certain angles, a new study suggests.

The low mass and volume of such an instrument would make it well-suited for both small satellite Earth-orbiting missions and larger outer planet missions from which it could be used to characterise the tenuous atmospheres observed at several moons, as well as studying the auroral emissions of the gas giants.

Triton has a tenuous nitrogen atmosphere less than 1/70,000 the pressure of Earth's atmosphere at sea level.

The tenuous Martian atmosphere was first noted in the 1780s by the German-born British astronomer William Herschel, who also measured the tilt of the planet's rotation axis and first discussed the seasons of Mars.