Sentences with phrase «the home planet»

Don't you just hate it when aliens invade your home planet, destroy major cities and massacre millions of people?

Others bring the blue marble of our home planet into view.

But he may be willing to forgo that title in order to leave his home planet.

In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space.

Next, I will deliver to the new American Mormon congregation the coordinates of my home planet, where I am a God as well as here.

A lesser film would have opened by loading her with backstory about her royal heritage, her home planet and her ties to the Rebel Alliance (in fact, the lesser prequels committed just such errors with their own characters.)

Then, we found out that our new home planet would take four lightyears to reach.

While Interstellar seeks to find a new home planet, Wall - E wonders if we would not be better served staying on Earth, reversing the current habits of destruction and fulfilling our call as «maintainers.»

The consequence of these reflections is the full recognition that to have been created in God's image means, for human beings, that we are created in the image of God as Love.134 That has all - encompassing implications for the way in which we are invited to exercise power in our relationships with one another and with all of creation on our home planet.

Don't they know Jesus and Satan were created by the Father as Spirit Brothers, that the Father's home planet is called Kolob and that the Garden of Eden is in Missouri?

From its inception in 1990 to its final dramatic conclusion this September, Cassini has been a major, extraordinarily successful component of humanity's six - decade - long exploration beyond our home planet.

This 4.5 - inch satellite view of our home planet (with cloud cover) fits in your hand - but when put on its stand, it uses solar technology to slowly spin - like magic (scratch that, like science!).

Show off your love for our blue home planet (a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam)!

The sun's power isn't limited to lighting and heating our home planet — it could create chaos by way of its coronal mass ejections (CME).

It was proof that our home planet isn't alone in atmospheric spectacle.

Over the course of the year NASA will share an inside look at what the agency is doing to better understand this critical component of our home planet.

«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.»

They reveal an exotic and extreme landscape that makes our home planet look pretty bland by comparison.

But for all that the Apollo astronauts saw and did on the moon, it was their home planet that shocked them with its beauty.

On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings — and, in the background, our home planet, Earth.

Or what if our home planet had two moons, or none, or was a moon itself?

This process would let metal trickle down through the mantle, accumulate in the center, and form a metal core, like the iron core at the heart of our home planet.

NASA's Acting Administrator issued a statement last week about the budget proposal, saying, «We remain committed to studying our home planet and the universe, but are reshaping our focus within the resources available to us.»

As the probe drew nearer to its home planet, just a sliver of Earth was visible, but the flyby nonetheless revealed striking detail — a swirl of clouds above Antarctica is discernible, as is highly reflective ice near the South Pole.

Take the long view of this island Earth: this well - built NASA Web site provides easy access to gorgeous satellite imagery and scientific data about our home planet.

The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet.

Most are substantially larger than Earth, but 10 are about the same size as our home planet.

«This is our home planet and these are our distant cousins,» says Middleton.

A committee of the U.S. National Research Council released a sobering report today on the prospects for defending the home planet against near Earth objects (NEOs), the asteroids and comets that can cross Earth's orbit and hit us.

Ordinary users can track this constellation of satellites with one of several Web sites or with an appealing public - domain software program called Home Planet, which can map any satellite you choose, GPS or not, against a projection of the Earth's surface.

Layer by layer, humanity's home planet would be dismantled — first the atmosphere, then the crust, all the way down to the core — in a fantastic explosion.

You start by launching into space from the surface of your home planet.

While Earth 2.0 remains elusive, here are what NASA considers to be the closest known analogues to our home planet.

This is the inaugural meeting for TESS, which is a first of its kind: uniting the various research groups that study the sun - Earth connection from explosions on the sun to their effects near our home planet and all the way out to the edges of the solar system - a research field collectively known as heliophysics.

This understanding of the long - term power of wind can be applied to Earth as well, although there are more variables on our home planet than Mars, Anderson said.

Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine would have formed far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new University of Bristol study into its real world counterparts, observed by the Kepler space telescope, suggests.

It turns out that planets with radii greater than about 1.7 times that of Earth are have a gassy envelope, like Neptune, and those with radii smaller than this are rocky, like our home planet.

For more than 40 years, missions throughout the solar system have sent back stunning images of our home planet

NASA shares this unique knowledge with the global community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet.

«Someday soon we hope to be talking about weather reports for alien worlds not much bigger than Earth, and to be making comparisons with our home planet.»

Like the new discovery, Kepler - 62f is a «super Earth,» about 40 percent larger than our home planet.

The Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite will provide a much - needed perspective on our home planet

Then we leave our home planet to see more of the solar system's wonders, taking in a Martian sunset and a simulation of Saturn's dark side bathed in ring - shine.

He genuinely wants to provide humans with the opportunity to get off the home planet.

We remain committed to studying our home planet and the universe, but are reshaping our focus within the resources available to us — a budget not far from where we have been in recent years, and which enables our wide ranging science work on many fronts...

Earth has no known Trojans, perhaps because our home planet is too heavy to have been knocked around the same way that Mars was, Morbidelli says.

Tajeddine explains that if Saturn moons actually formed 4.5 billion years ago, their current distances from the home planet should be greater.

Eyes on the home planet NASA doesn't just look upward; the agency boasts the largest consortium of earth scientists in the world.

Nevertheless, Earthlings would not mistake Gliese 581g for their home planet — in addition to its so - called super-Earth dimensions, it orbits a star far smaller and dimmer than the sun, and its average surface temperatures would vary dramatically, from well below freezing on its night side to scorching hot on the day side.

A body with a nitrogen - methane atmosphere, where the ground - level pressure is one and a half times that of our home planet, may have the right ingredients for molecular precursors of life and, some have speculated, even life itself to form.