Sentences with phrase «around earth»

The telescope will complete one orbit around the Earth every 101 minutes by passing over each of Earth's poles.

A model proposed in 2007 adds a silicate vapor atmosphere around the Earth and the lunar disk (the magma disk that is the residue of the impactor).

From north to south, it covers a distance of about 9,000 miles (15,000 kilometers), which is one - third of the way around the Earth.

Although invisible, the magnetic field and electric currents in and around Earth generate complex forces that have a huge impact on everyday life.

But certain orbital safe havens known as Trojan points, leading or trailing the moon in its orbit around Earth, would allow a moonlet to hang around for tens of millions of years before meeting its end.

And how do we use that math to put a satellite or person in orbit around the Earth?

The GNSS tide gauge uses radio signals from satellites in orbit around Earth that are part of satellite navigation systems like GPS and Glonass (Russia's equivalent of GPS).

For the Global Consciousness Project, scientists set up 36 computer programs running separately, in different labs scattered around the earth, whose job is to generate random numbers.

This, and other, amazingly clear images were made as the shuttle Columbia swept around the Earth once every 90 minutes in an orbit that varied from 154 to 137 nautical miles in altitude

One such object, a 200 - metre - wide asteroid called 2004 GU9, has been looping around Earth this way for 500 years, but is expected to eventually drift away.

During one if its gravitational - assist swings around Earth, Galileo turned its instruments on this planet and collected data.

This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.

An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth's atmosphere — and falling from it — according to new research from scientists in Canada, Spain and the U.S.

«Atmosphere detected around an Earth - like planet.»

If some wayward objects from the asteroid belt did become trapped as Trojans around Earth, the objects would not be easy to spot, Vitagliano says.

These objects have corkscrew orbits, slowly looping around Earth, while following its orbital motion around the Sun.

And then there's Roger Angel, an astronomer and optical scientist at the University of Arizona who, working under a NASA grant, seeks to launch trillions of two - foot - wide disks of transparent film into orbit around Earth, a million miles up.

Almost every spacecraft that has swung around the Earth to speed it on its journey into space has recorded an inexplicable velocity change.

Some of these forces are predictable, including the 18.61 years it takes for the moon's orbit around the Earth to oscillate.

Wonders of the Solar System Hosted by physicist Brian Cox, this BBC series whisks us around Earth and beyond to find astronomical awe.

High above Earth, two giant rings of energetic particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field create a dynamic and harsh environment that holds many mysteries — and can affect spacecraft traveling around Earth.

As the particles journeyed around Earth, the lighter hydrogen particles were lost in collisions with the atmosphere, leaving an oxygen - rich plasma.

If her model is right, a survey would detect concentric rings of Great Walls in every direction around Earth, an illusion produced by innumerable distant small clusters appearing to coalesce on redshift maps.

Around Earth, SEP storms can damage the sensitive electronics on satellites.

After 600 more explosions, the ship would be lofted into a 300 - mile orbit around Earth.

Scientists have long sought the answer to why these animals beach, and one recent collaboration hoped to find a clear - cut solution: Researchers from a cross-section of fields pooled massive data sets to see if disturbances to the magnetic field around Earth could be what confuses these sea creatures, known as cetaceans.

You know, for instance around Earth, you can think of gravity as forming a kind of a well around Earth, which causes the things that pass near Earth, the moon I would say, which is orbiting on its path, to stay within the vicinity because it falls into that gravity well, metaphorically speaking; and in likewise the same way this astronaut that is fictitiously described by our good mathematics professor takes a journey through curved spacetime.

Space around Earth is littered with numerous human - made objects that could potentially collide with operating spacecraft and each other (creating more debris).

We could theoretically, through engineering, create a membrane around the earth that controls temperature and rainfall, for instance.

But the mission's scientific objectives aren't the only historic part: TESS also stands out because of the orbital path it will follow around Earth, blazing a course through space that no craft has ever flown.

The Sculptor dwarf is a small galaxy that orbits around our own Milky Way, just as the Moon orbits around the Earth.

Around the Earth's core - mantle boundary are regions called ultralow - velocity zones (ULVZs), which are characterized by liquid rock with velocities up to 30 % lower than surrounding material.

The researchers say that the destructive radiation could hang about for a long time, spiralling around Earth's magnetic field lines.

Massive clouds of sediment have been blowing around Earth ever since there was earth to blow and wind to blow it.

Yuri Shprits of the University of California in Los Angeles led a team that simulated how such a large storm would affect the radiation around Earth.

Through the newly invented telescope Galileo had seen many things that couldn't be explained by the dominant cosmology of the time, rooted in the idea that all things revolved around Earth: things like moons crossing the face of Jupiter, or the changing phases of Venus as sunlight caught it at different angles — an impossibility if Venus's orbit encircled Earth.

There are no garbage trucks equipped to leave the atmosphere and pick up debris floating around Earth.

Within minutes of discovery, Sand activated observations with LCO's global network of 18 robotic telescopes, spaced around Earth so that one is always on the night side.

Ancient Greek mathematicians and astronomers were using geometry around the same time, but only to make calculations involving real, 3D space, such as using circles torepresent the orbits of planets around Earth.

But any waste that's ejected from spacecraft in orbit around Earth is too close to the planet to escape the pull of Earth's gravity.

The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST), developed by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is to be used to protect U.S. and international assets and commercial and international satellites in orbit around Earth.

If one truck load of pyrolysis oil is mixed with black liquor and converted into fuel, the total volume is sufficient to drive a car ten laps around Earth.

The planets» rotation is locked, so the worlds keep the same face towards the stars they orbit, much like the Moon does as it moves around the Earth.

In the geocentric view everything has to revolve around the Earth, but once you adopt the Copernican view it's okay for the universe to have more than one center, so we go around the Sun, the other planets go around the Sun, but these little moons around Jupiter.

Steve Mirsky: The wildest thing you talk about is stock traders wanting to use it for communication so that they can send the information directly through the earth and get a millisecond advantage over the people who have to go around the earth with photonic -

The resulting interaction converted magnetic energy into kinetic energy and sent charged particles such as cosmic rays raining down on Earth's magnetosphere, the region around Earth where its own magnetic field is stronger than other magnetic fields in space.

In a new type of collaborative study, scientists combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to understand how a particle phenomenon in the magnetic environment around Earth occurs.

This is an image illustrating the six orbital planes in which GPS satellites («navigational satellites,» or ns) fly around Earth.

However, by combining datasets from spacecraft situated in locations spread around Earth, Turner and his team were able to address big - picture questions about particle movement.

This result, combined with the spacecraft data, showed there is activity around Earth for more than an hour leading up to wedge formation, a process that has been hotly debated in the past.