Sentences with phrase «so jet propulsion»

So Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Jonathan Sauder and his team designed a futuristic Venus rover that doesn't need electronics.

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So serious, in fact, that the organization's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has put out a call for design proposals of the spacecraft that will eventually land on an asteroid, then send a huge chunk of it over to humans for experimentation.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

«We've only found simple organic molecules so far,» says Ashwin Vasavada, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who leads Curiosity's science team.

So Curiosity also has holes in its wheels, which spell out «JPL» (for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the rover was built and is operated) in Morse code.

«The signal from the spacecraft is gone, and within the next 45 seconds, so will be the spacecraft,» Cassini project manager Earl Maize announced from the mission control center at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

«You want a complete set of instruments to make measurements simultaneously so you can correlate all the results,» says Robert Mitchell, the Cassini program manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

«We've got a spacecraft on the way to Ceres, so we don't have to wait long before getting more context on this intriguing result, right from the source itself,» said Carol Raymond, the deputy principal investigator for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Dawn will map the geology and chemistry of the surface in high resolution, revealing the processes that drive the outgassing activity.»

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

The contents of both reservoirs «are uncertain by an order of magnitude,» says Paul Weissman, a senior research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «So I'm not entirely certain that they have a problem that needs solving.»

«Thanks to all of you, near and far, old and young, who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken from interplanetary distances,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «While Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings, the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands, uplifted paws, smiling faces and artwork.»

It still has 12 million miles (19 million kilometers) to go to reach Mars, said Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «The journey has been so remarkably uneventful, it's scary how clean it's been,» he said.

During the dive, the orbiter will be going so fast, and Saturn's atmosphere will be thickening from its perspective so quickly, «that Cassini will be vaporized in I think maybe 2 minutes --[actually] I think more like 1,» Cassini project manager Earl Maize, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said during a news conference Wednesday (Sept. 13).

Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard are not that interesting to me on their own, so I'm pretty sure I grabbed this book because I'm a fan of Jack Parsons — the guy who founded NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the blue - collar Jack who pioneered solid rocket fuel.

Each Mech has their own set of weapons equipped, as well as a «jet pack» propulsion system so they can outmaneuver their enemies.

«To have so much information about a warm Neptune is still rare, so analyzing these data sets simultaneously is an achievement in and of itself,» said co-author Tiffany Kataria of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Events like the ice conditions Barber witnessed are difficult to forecast, so scientists and decision - makers need to be prepared for them, said Ronald Kwok, a climate researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who was not connected to the new study.