Planetary in a sentence

Planetary Science Archive website, the go-to platform for scientists who use data from ESA's planetary missions for their research, also includes a visual gallery interface for users to browse through images and other data products.

The “Planetary Protection Independent Review Board” is headed by a planetary geologist and it would seem to be more appropriate for an astrobiologist to head any review team.

Because Venus has no intrinsic (planetary) magnetic field, Venusian auroras appear as bright and diffuse patches of varying shape and intensity, sometimes distributed across the full planetary disc.

In Kepler's final planetary model, he described planetary orbits as following elliptical paths with the Sun at a focal point of the ellipse.

Planetary aberration Planetary aberration is the combination of the aberration of light (due to Earth's velocity) and light-time correction (due to the object's motion and distance), as calculated in the rest frame of the Solar System.

Stations may be owned by planetary governments, or by specific commercial organizations, or they may be completely independent of any planetary organization (e.g. the Quaddie Union and Kline Station).

Aerocapture is an orbital transfer maneuver in which a spacecraft makes a single pass through a planetary atmosphere to decelerate and achieve orbit insertion.

After a strong earthquake on Mars, planetary scientists noticed that its crust is thicker than that of the Earth.

A planetary alignment of this kind may show up every few years, but it is possible to catch planets all together in an even smaller patch of the sky - those occurrences are just more rare.

Are we the last generation, have we burned so many planetary bridges, set askew so many systems, that at some point our blissful blue orb will still be here, but unwelcoming to ungainly swimmers like myself?

As a result, it won’t take much planetary warming to lead to widespread flood devastation — the results may be visible over the next few decades, or even earlier.

As the new space race fires up, scientists have proposed an entirely new field — planetary geoarchaeology — to study the imprints and objects humans leave behind.

A team of healthcare professionals led by family physician Dr. Ilona Hale has produced a new resource called Planetary Health for Primary Care, which outlines ways clinicians can be climate advocates in their day-to-day work.

Beyond the moon, Holcomb wants to see planetary geoarchaeology extend to issues related to exploration and migration to Mars.

But a slight change to its orbit placed the closer to Mars’ moon Deimos, revealing a possible planetary origin to the awkwardly shaped space rock.

Cardinal McElroy was also appointed to the planetary stage of the synod by the Holy Father, having failed to get elected, like Cardinal Cupich, by his brother bishops.

Coal needs to disappear altogether in an increasingly intense planetary climate emergency.

Conditions in the Northern Hemisphere have a greater impact on planetary averages because the land area there is larger than that in the Southern Hemisphere, and the land heats and cools faster than the oceans.

Conjunctions blend the planetary themes, working as one entity.

Cziczo, professor and head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in Purdue's College of Science, is an expert in who has spent decades studying this rarefied region.