Sentences with phrase «after lunar»

A more complete picture of Chinese demand may only emerge after the Lunar New Year holiday, when wealthier buyers often combine overseas property hunting with sightseeing.
After Lunar New Year, Pace Beijing will present the solo exhibition of Hong Hao, the renowned contemporary Chinese artist who is newly represented by Pace.
After Lunar Odin's sixth turn, on which he'll cast Holy, have your Black Mage cast a Thunder - based spell (Thunder, Thundara, or Thundaga) on Lunar Odin.
From a kitty playground to a napping pod modeled after a lunar spaceship (and equipped with built - in feeding bowls and astro - mice toys), they're intriguing for both cats and humans.
After the lunar shove, TESS will enter a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth, circling our planet every 13.7 days.

Not exact matches

Less than seven years after Kennedy's speech, on July 20th 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 landed the Eagle module on the lunar surface — and humankind took its famed giant leap forward into interplanetary exploration.
It is quite another order of knowledge that discloses, for example, the «lunar destiny» of human existence, the fact that man is «measured» by the temporal rhythms illustrated by the phases of the moon, that he is fated to die but, quite like the moon which reappears after three days of darkness, man too can begin his existence anew, that in any case he nourishes the hope in a life after death, assured or ameliorated through an initiation ritual.
Australian winemakers might have to wait until 2015 to see a return to growth in China after Pernod Ricard, the world's second - biggest drinks group and owner of Jacob's Creek, warned that beverage sales were flat since the Lunar New Year as an austerity drive and crackdown on luxury gift giving kept glasses empty.
On July 20, 1969, four days after blasting off from the only planet known to have life, Neil Armstrong flew a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) to the surface of the moon.
After these molecules arrive at the moon, it is thought they get energized by sunlight and then bounce across the lunar surface; and they get stuck, at least temporarily, in colder and more shadowy areas.
On January 4, 1970, less than six months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left humanity's first lunar footprints, NASA announced Apollo 20's cancellation.
Four decades after mankind's giant leap, a look at the harrowing first lunar landing, the Apollo missions that never flew, and how the historic event looked from the Soviet Union
After training on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images covering about one - third of the moon's surface, the program was shown another third of the lunar landsLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images covering about one - third of the moon's surface, the program was shown another third of the lunar landslunar landscape.
After seeing these features in the lab, Schultz worked with David Crawford of the Sandia National Laboratories to generate computer models showing that the same kind of physics would also happen at the colossal scales of a lunar impact.
After analysing the moon's wrinkled surface with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Klimczak thinks that the moon shrank by at least 2 kilometres — previous estimates pegged the contraction at only about 200 metres.
Public interest in seeing men on the moon had declined after Apollo 11, and the mechanical travails that threatened the lives of the crew of Apollo 13 in April 1970 heightened concerns about the risks of lunar missions.
The collision will take place in the dark, but far overhead the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite will photograph the crash site before and after the event.
Priceless lunar samples gifted after the Apollo landings fell into wrong hands — meet the moon - hunter who went undercover to get them back
For example, when the lunar orbiter PFS - 2 was released from Apollo 16 in 1972 it was expected to stay in orbit for 18 months, but these perturbations caused it to crash onto the lunar surface after only 34 days.
On another recent trip, he and a partner were locked in an Omani jail cell for two months after local police illicitly confiscated lunar meteorites that Farmer says were worth close to $ 200,000.
Yet in November 1969, only months after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became history's first moonwalkers, Conrad left his own tracks in the lunar dust, as commander of the Apollo 12 mission.
When these failings became evident, shortly after Apollo, lunar scientists» disillusionment was complete.
After studying the sunset times and lunar cycles taken from other spawning observations, the research team timed their egg and sperm collection around the most likely annual spawning times — exactly three nights after the August full moon and around 100 minutes after suAfter studying the sunset times and lunar cycles taken from other spawning observations, the research team timed their egg and sperm collection around the most likely annual spawning times — exactly three nights after the August full moon and around 100 minutes after suafter the August full moon and around 100 minutes after suafter sunset.
The lander then released a six - wheeled rover named Yutu — which translates as «Jade Rabbit» — after the mythological pet of lunar goddess Chang» e.
After almost a half - century hiatus, lunar missions are once again becoming the next big thing in space science and exploration
Planting Chinese footprints on lunar soil is now in China's target sights, Johnson - Freese says, after the nation has carefully developed all the necessary capabilities through its Shenzhou and Chang» e programs.
Almost two centuries after atmospheric lunar tides were predicted and first observed, they are still studied.
Russia's renewed interest in the moon came after a Russian instrument hitched a ride in 2009 with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The craft — named Ebb and Flow in a NASA - sponsored contest won by schoolchildren in Montana — have been measuring subtle variations in the moon's gravitational field in unprecedented detail since soon after they entered lunar orbit a little less than a year ago.
Now, two independent groups have reanalyzed the Apollo data using modern but very different techniques, and both teams say they have detected lunar seismologists» prime target: a core of iron that is still molten 4.5 billion years after the moon's formation.
Before - and - after images of the region taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will provide data that will allow researchers to estimate the strength and cohesiveness of surface rocks at the impact sites.
CE5 - T1 marks China's fourth lunar mission in the Chang» e series, named after a moon goddess in Chinese mythology.
Two weeks ago, Colaprete made a last - minute switch to target Cabeus after the sister mission to LCROSS, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), began to find evidence of increased hydrogen within the crater.
From previous lunar research, they estimated that the top millimeter of regolith would be buried by meteoroid impacts after about a million years, so it would be too deep to be subject to electric charging during solar storms.
Meant to be the third lunar landing attempt, the Apollo 13 mission was aborted after an oxygen tank ruptured 200,000 miles into space in 1970.
The Apollo program fit into a sweeping vision of human space exploration — sometimes called the «von Braun paradigm» after rocket scientist Wernher von Braun — that included not just lunar expeditions but winged spaceships, orbiting space stations and piloted missions to Mars.
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The Chinese lunar rover, Yutu, photographed by its lander Chang «e-3, after the lander touched down in Mare Imbrium, a giant impact basin that had been filled by successive lava flows.
Team Astrobotic plans to send its rover to see how the descent stage of the Apollo 11 lunar module looks after 40 years on the moon and so gain insights into how to design future lunar equipment.
In human history, only one type of human spacecraft launched has occurred away from teams of engineers — lunar liftoffs — and those took place only a few days after landing had occurred.
If everything else goes well — including a lunar flyby in May researchers will start getting results from the planet - hunting telescope in a few months, after it reaches its final orbit in June.
After nine (Earth) years of slowly traversing Mars, Opportunity broke the U.S. off - world rover record held by Apollo 17's lunar buggy since 1972.
Caroline Herschel was honored lately by the astronomical community by naming a Lunar Crater after her: C. Herschel (34.5 N, 31.2 W, 13.0 km diameter, 1935).
NASA's former chief exploration scientist, Michael Wargo, has been posthumously honored with the distinction of having a lunar crater named after him.
Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future missions to the moon.
After several more burns, TESS will be in a special 2:1 lunar resonance orbit of roughly 67,000 by 233,000 miles (108,000 by 375,000 kilometers) inclined 37 degrees.
Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future...
Two years after placing its very first rover on the surface of the moon, China has announced it would launch a mission to return lunar samples to Earth later this year.
After graduating from the University of Arizona with a master's degree in Teaching and Teacher Education, along with a minor in planetary science, I taught high school physics and Earth and space science for one year before coming to the Lunar and Planetary Institute in 2009.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), built by MSSS and operated by principal investigator Mark Robinson at Arizona State University, continues to return 0.5 meter per pixel high - resolution images and 100 meter per pixel multi-spectral images after being launched in June 2009.
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