Sentences with phrase «exploring other planets»

What Sen. Cruz doesn't understand is that there's no better place to start exploring other planets than your own.
When rovers exploring other planets seek out chemical signatures associated with life forms, they're only able to identify chemicals that we know to look for.
The governments of the world, and our government in particular, seem presently much less than enthusiastic about exploring the oceans of our own planet than in exploring other planets (ocean research seems to have taken a particular hit in the last decade of Congressional budget cuts, although admittedly, all agencies have seen cutbacks).
Exploring other planets is the great adventure of our generations and generations of the future.
To Conley, that's as unnerving as any multi-eyed CGI alien Hollywood could dream up: We explore other planets not just to add pins to a map, but to understand what else nature is capable of.
Whether it's the lush forests of Venus or the red deserts of Mars, when you explore these other planets, it really is like stepping into a new world.
In addition we can re-arrange and re-engineer our bodies, create new species, and explore other planets.
A few of us have even been to our moon, and there are humans living on an outpost in space while our robots explore the other planets in our neighborhood.

Not exact matches

SpaceX's mission statement highlights both its short - term goals (developing the technologies needed to explore space) and long - term aspirations (enabling people to live on other planets, like Mars).
Since then, NASA has explored other alien surfaces like, Mars and Saturn's moon Titan, as well as flown by every planet in our solar system.
We've been to the bottom of our oceans, we been to the surface of our moon, we've sent robots hundreds of thousands of miles to explore the surface of other planets.
«I think the state should explore the possibility of entering into other planets,» said Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (D - Earth).
Now, under the auspices of its own space agency, Canada is partnering with other countries to help explore the Red Planet.
Waukesha, WI — The March 2014 issue of Discover magazine speculates what we might learn about life on other planets by exploring Earth's most extreme landscapes, investigates the unexpected medicinal possibilities of nicotine and profiles the energy firms turning pig waste into sustainable power.
Enormous dust storms are a fact of life on Mars, and one big enough to blanket the planet occurs every five or six years, says John Callas of NASA, the project manager for Opportunity and its twin, Spirit (currently exploring the other side of Mars).
By exploring Titan, we can hope to understand more about planets around other stars.
Other factions within planetary - science circles would prefer to send another mission to Titan — maybe even an airborne drone, a sailboat or a submarine — or to reach for farther frontiers by sending orbiters to Uranus and Neptune, the last two planets that remain scarcely explored.
On the other hand, Jupiter or Saturn missions, for instance, could use local manifolds to explore those planets» neighborhoods.
These effects and their implications for other planets have not really been explored
Other scenarios the team explored include artificial rings of space debris, revealing a civilisation that has fallen victim to a Gravity - like space junk cascade on a grand scale, or the total destruction of the planet.
Thanks to this pioneering research, astrophysicists can now begin to explore how weather systems on other planets outside our solar system change over time.
«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.
He points out that Curiosity and other missions that touch down on the planet are only exploring a limited region for a limited time.
Since then, the hardy rover has tallied about 300 days exploring Mars while its robotic twin Spirit has spent an even longer time trekking across Gusev Crater on the other side of the planet.
With that, he said as scientists begin to explore the universe and wonder about the existence of life on other planets, they will consider planets and regions that possess magnetospheres since they are more likely to support life.
ISRU stands for «in - situ resource utilization» — a concept that, to feasibly explore and colonize other planets, we must be able to manufacture or harvest important materials (water, oxygen, food) from other planets, rather than shipping everything from Earth.
As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets
I am interested in the fundamental questions of how our Solar System and others formed and evolved as well as exploring the process of planet formation.
Speaking of the possibility of life on other planets, Amber Turner, a first - generation UNLV senior majoring in geology, began working alongside Lisa Danielson, UNLV Graduate Col - lege Alumna of the Year and geoscientist, at Jacobs / NASA this spring to explore whether or not humans might someday have a relocation option.
Santerne also thought that: «After 20 years of exploring planets as big as Jupiter around other suns, we still have a lot of questions left open.
«It will allow us to follow up planet detections using other telescopes, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, to then better explore the properties of these planets
A small but talented UK team is building Twinkle, a small spacecraft with a big mission — exploring the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars.
This ground - breaking documentary explores the impact that food choices have on people's health, the health of our planet and on the lives of other living species.
It also has this fun, yet cliched sci - fi story behind the gameplay that has a team of scientists exploring an irregularity in space which holds vast energy and like most stories, things go wrong and you end up on the other side of the universe on a strange planet as you attempt to collect the clues and find a way back home.
In 2005's Jarhead, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Anthony Swofford, who is from the Sacramento area, but the film is mostly set on the other side of the planet, where it explores the psychological costs of the Gulf War.
Summer 2017 — Issue 6, cover art by W. Jack Savage • Sixth issue of a «new deindustrial science fiction quarterly focused on publishing speculative fiction that explores a future defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, climate change, and other consequences stemming from the reckless and shortsighted exploitation of our planet, and to imagine the ways that humans will adapt, survive, live, die, and thrive within this future.»
Humane Education seeks to undermine cruelty by inviting individuals to explore their connections with their environment, other cultures, other species and the planet.
Some travelers follow guides by the letter, doing everything Mr. Lonely Planet says you should do: this over-crowds certain places, hypes others that do not deserve particular praise and, let's face it, takes away the beauty of exploring the unknown (or less known).
So I have long been over-due to explore other regions of the planet.
Explore depicts some of the realms that players will be landing in — including lifeforms, structures, plant life, planets, other space ships and intelligent beings — and, presumably, reveals just a minuscule part of its whole playable star systems.
I just wish the game was bigger, we've almost completely explored earth, only 3 other planets... I say that isn't big enough.
Some will enjoy hours upon hours of simply exploring the planets while others will get bored with maybe even a couple hours.
Players can also explore the levels, looking for hidden and hard to reach areas, to find other collectibles such as smaller berries, which act as currency for three unlockable mini-games, as well as Mui Muis and other residents of the planet, which reward the player with items for their Loco House.
This city has never been somewhere Guardians can explore, but now it appears it will be akin to those areas we see on other planets around the solar system.
From humble beginnings, as players leave their home planet and explore the unknown, to tense «first contact» moments with alien species, to the difficult choices and responsibilities of managing diplomatic relationships with other star - faring races.
It showed a player exploring an unknown planet on foot, filled with dinosaurs and other creatures.
Seamlessly jumping from ground - level to deep space, dogfighting against other ships, exploring uncharted planets... it all sounds amazing, and from the footage fans have seen, it looks great, too.
• Create and expand your own space - age colony • Discover mysterious landmarks all over the planetExplore space and seek out many galaxies and planets in search of artifacts • Face unexpected events like falling meteorites and UFOs flying around your colony • Interact with friends, visit their colonies and boost each other's reputations!
You may land on a barren wasteland with a lethally toxic atmosphere, or an Eden swarming with exotic wildlife — and once the planet is discovered and generated, it is available for all other players to explore.
Here you need to raise funds to research rockets and other vehicle parts, expand your space station, train your crew, explore new planets to extract valuable resources, and more.
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