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n. The area of the Solar System that comprises certain objects that are relatively close to the Sun, including Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, while not including the other planets.
Usage examples of "inner solar system".
The evolute stretched as Jupiter intersected the inner solar system, traced a sharp V around the Sun, and headed out into the depths of space again.
And then, less than 20 years ago, the planet suddenly begins, like a dandelion gone to seed, to fire tiny capsules throughout the inner solar system.
There could be only one reason for the Sultan to send a black hole hurtling toward the inner Solar system.
A swarm of big meteoroids could have swung through the inner solar system and collided with the planets over a span of millions of years.
The magnification of distant images would allow us (with a modest radio telescope) to resolve a continent at the distance of the nearest star and the inner Solar System at the distance of the nearest spiral galaxy.
Today it takes a few months to cross the ocean of the inner solar system and make planet-fall on Mars or Venus, which are truly and literally now worlds awaiting us.
I pointed to the main viewscreen, on which Dabisch had put a magnified image of the inner solar system.
It would wander around the Inner Solar System depending on research needs, anywhere between Mercury and the Belt, but its facilities shouldn't change.
The pods shared no common destination, but all of them were targeted for the inner solar system.
The EK Belt is believed to be the source of many of the short-period comets that from time to time visit the inner solar system.
An old prune of a comet, broiled by its long stay in the inner solar system.
So Clavius was about as safe a place as it was possible to be today, anywhere in the inner solar system.
For instance, the structure of the ice at the Pole, strata laid down over billions of years, was a record of the impact history of the inner Solar System—.
For instance, the structure of the ice at the Pole, strata laid down over billions of years, was a record of the impact history of the inner Solar System&mdash.
He wondered if there was any connection between this shining visitor, flying through the heart of the inner Solar System, and the sparkling lights he saw around Orion, the remote disturbance there.