Sentences with phrase «earth during the landing»

The artist's animation depicts how NASA's Curiosity rover will communicate with Earth during landing.

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During the keynote, Musk revealed a video of a prototype rocket that, once detached from the spacecraft, could re-enter Earth's atmosphere and land vertically like a helicopter.

Fish and other sea creatures were created on the 5th «creative» day, while land animals were made during the 6th «creative» day, with man being God's final act of creation on the earth.

Ownership of this small plot of earth will be the Children of Israel's sole legal claim in the promised land during their four hundred years of exile in Egypt.

Writing of men in an old section of the South that he knew so well Wolfe writes: «He is not a colonist, a settler, a transplanted European; during his three centuries there in the wilderness he has become native to the immense and lonely land that he inhabits; during those three centuries he has taken on the sinew and the color of that earth, he has acquired a character, a tradition, a history of his own..

The last glacial period spanned from 110,000 to 10,000 years ago; during that time the Earth was colder and glaciers covered significantly more land.

The equator promises relatively happy landings on relatively smooth surfaces, but it also guarantees temperatures that exceed 250 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and plummet below — 240 °F during the night — and both day and night last 14 Earth days.

During ice ages, which are mainly driven by rhythmic variations in Earth's orbit and spin that alter sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, growing ice caps and glaciers trap so much frozen water on land that sea levels can drop a hundred meters or more.

Scientists are still eager to see the spacecraft return to Earth in case some loose asteroid bits accidentally made their way into the collection chamber during the landings.

One of the most difficult aspects of landing on Mars is dealing with the thin atmosphere — there is just enough to create dangerous heat during the descent, but not enough to slow down a spacecraft the same way we do on Earth.

«The things we see landing on Earth now are probably representative of what was landing on us back during Earth's infancy,» says NASA's Sandford, who has traveled the world searching for samples from on high.

During the Middle Ages, a mapmaker depicted Earth in the shape of the body of Jesus, with rivers traversing the land like veins.

When Steven Goodbred, an Earth and environmental researcher at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, came across this site during a field trip in 2011, he and his students were shocked to find the land still badly flooded and thousands of families living in tents and ramshackle huts.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will capture data during Curiosity's entry, descent and landing for later playback to Earth.

During the trip something goes terribly awry and the ship is forced to crash land on the extremely formidable and dangerous planet known as Earth.

While One Million Kingdoms combines original imagery of astronaut Neil Armstrong during the first manned moon landing with passages from Jules Verne's novel «Journey to the Centre of the Earth» and focuses on the human desire to explore the unknown, AnnLee ponders in Two Minutes Out of Time about her existence as a fictional casing that waits to be filled.

Global average temperature is lower during glacial periods for two primary reasons: 1) there was only about 190 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, and other major greenhouse gases (CH4 and N2O) were also lower 2) the earth surface was more reflective, due to the presence of lots of ice and snow on land, and lots more sea ice than today (that is, the albedo was higher).

In the book he maps and claims that during the the last two Ice ages, the poles were mostly land free, in particular the Frozen Earth age.

(The hurricane over land like signature that has become all - too - common during recent years as the Earth has continued to warm is plainly visible over the Kashmir region on September 5 of 2014.

The one other option for Earth would be increased carbon capture on land, during glacials.

Our non-linear model of the land air temperature (T)-- driven by the measured Arosa total ozone (TOZ)-- explains 75 % of total variability of Earth's T variations during the period 1926 — 2011.

See, the first thing to do is do determine what the temperature trend during the recent thermometer period (1850 — 2011) actually is, and what patterns or trends represent «data» in those trends (what the earth's temperature / climate really was during this period), and what represents random «noise» (day - to - day, year - to - random changes in the «weather» that do NOT represent «climate change»), and what represents experimental error in the plots (UHI increases in the temperatures, thermometer loss and loss of USSR data, «metadata» «M» (minus) records getting skipped that inflate winter temperatures, differences in sea records from different measuring techniques, sea records vice land records, extrapolated land records over hundreds of km, surface temperature errors from lousy stations and lousy maintenance of surface records and stations, false and malicious time - of - observation bias changes in the information.)

Statistics show this (from that first abstract) «This hot extreme, which covered much less than 1 % of Earth's surface during the base period, now typically covers about 10 % of the land area.

«Literally and figuratively, this is a scorched earth budget that represents an all out assault on clean air, water, and land,» Gina McCarthy, who served as EPA administrator during the final years of the Obama administration, said in a statement.

Geologists have proposed that Earth's oceans and land surfaces were covered by ice from the poles to the Equator during these events.

When the DuraForce landed on one of its edges, it would bounce up like a spiked football before clattering back to earth, with the protective flap over the charging port popping open on impact during one drop test.