Sentences with phrase «around on the asteroid»

It will also employ a hopping robot, which can move around on the asteroid's surface.

Not exact matches

Must be why all those loose asteroids, meteors and comets are still hanging around out there to end all life on Earth with a single wallop.

With global warming, the increasing availability of nuclear weapons to unstable nations, and the growing possibility of bioterror, we won't necessarily have to wait around for an asteroid to make life on Mars suddenly seem appealing.

Many scientists currently believe that the mass extinction of life on Earth around 65m years ago was caused by a 110km - wide asteroid that hit Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

Here's our original story, published on 27 October: Around the world, telescopes are swiveling to welcome, and then wave farewell to, a new guest to the solar system: a fast - moving asteroid, or potentially a comet.

«There are only so many resources [on Earth] to go around, and we have to stop using them,» says Lewicki, who has two NASA Exceptional Achievement Medals and an asteroid named in his honor.

The real fun starts in January 1999, when near begins a year in orbit around 25 - mile - long Eros, culminating with a crash landing on that asteroid's surface.

Such a sequence of events, on a much larger scale, may explain the birth of our own Moon in the early days of the Solar System, as well as the origin of many other satellites around planets and asteroids.

At 1 A.M. Eastern time on July 16, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will become the first man - made probe to enter orbit around a so - called main - belt asteroid.

The timetable for NASA's longer - term projects is more handwavy — the Obama administration talks vaguely about missions to an asteroid around 2025 and Mars around 2030 — but the agency is working on a well - defined program, called the Space Launch System, to develop powerful rockets for interplanetary travel, whatever the destination.

Gigantic coil magnets could be placed at strategic intervals on asteroids to bend and focus a particle beam in a circular path around the sun.

Debris disks are found around stars that have shed their dusty, gas - filled protoplanetary disks and gone on to form planets, asteroids, comets, and other planetesimals.

The double asteroid 90 Antiope has come into sharp new detail, thanks to observations from the European Space Agency's Very Large Telescope and other smaller telescopes, which spied on the pair as it waltzed around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The craters on the asteroid will all bear names of other spas around the world, including Bath (England), Aix (France) and Spa (Belgium).

Dr. Chapman was also a member of the MSI / NIS (imaging / spectrometer) Team of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR Shoemaker) mission to Eros, which was launched in February 1996, went into orbit around Eros on Valentine's Day, 2000, and successfully landed on the surface of Eros on Feb. 12, 2001.

My research is in celestial mechanics, including the architecture of extra-solar planetary systems, debris disks around stars, the Kuiper belt and asteroid belt, orbital resonances, and meteoritic bombardment on planets in the solar system.

The asteroid rotates around every 2.1 hours, meaning that the rocks on its surface should be flung into space.

A fairly large near - Earth asteroid found 3 years ago will travel safely past Earth on April 19 at a range of approximately 1.1 million miles, or around 4.6 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.

Ryugu briefly dips inside Earth's orbit on each 1.3 - year lap around the Sun, making it a potentially hazardous asteroid in our celestial neighborhood.

On July 15, 2011 (probably near 10 pm, PDT), NASA's Dawn spacecraft became the first probe to enter orbit around an object in the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

«Our flight plan around Ceres will be choreographed to be very similar to the strategy that we successfully used around Vesta,» said Bob Mase, Dawn's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «This approach will build on that and enable scientists to make direct comparisons between these two giants of the asteroid belt.»

On July 14, 2011, NASA announced that its Dawn spacecraft should be captured by Vesta's gravity and into its orbit around 1 AM EDT, on Saturday, July 16, 2011 (10 PM PDT, Friday, July 15th), at a distance of approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Solar System's second largest, Main - Belt asteroiOn July 14, 2011, NASA announced that its Dawn spacecraft should be captured by Vesta's gravity and into its orbit around 1 AM EDT, on Saturday, July 16, 2011 (10 PM PDT, Friday, July 15th), at a distance of approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Solar System's second largest, Main - Belt asteroion Saturday, July 16, 2011 (10 PM PDT, Friday, July 15th), at a distance of approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Solar System's second largest, Main - Belt asteroid.

On March 29, 2007, astronomers using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope announced their finding that planetary systems — dusty disks of asteroids, comets, and possibly planets — may be at least as abundant in binary star systems as they are around single stars, like Sol.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

Previously successful with the one - dimensional hardware game Line Wobbler, he's now focusing on «Robot Space Mining» (working title), a deeper PC simulation game based around asteroid exploration and mining with autonomous robots, which he was prototyping at Stugan.

Exploring Europa, or the asteroid belt around Neptune and Pluto, being able to see Jupiter up in the distance or avoid the radiation and heat of the sun as you battle through a small mining compound on a runaway asteroid, it all felt very unique and much needed.

Of course when you are shooting and laying down the hurt on the aliens, you can always see which side you're shooting from, but when you get EMP'd or are avoiding a nova bomb or asteroids and have to do dodging maneuvers around a whole ton of enemies, you just may end up turned around and accidentally firing at the wall while they destroy you.

Shields, turrets, maps, super weapons and even the propulsion are all scattered around the circumference, and you and your partner must balance between taking on enemies coming in from all directions as well as deflecting incoming rockets and asteroids with the shield.

The title, avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods uses the avaf acronym, a play on words often utilized by the artists, to refer to our collective anxiety around natural disasters (particularly sensitive in California and Brazil at the moment).

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After rapping through some of the energy issues we're facing — the high cost of current oil production methods, the ridiculous talking points around the Keystone XL, and pollution from coal power plants (highlighting China)-- the rapping crew takes a very brief look at Elon Musk's electric vehicle and solar solutions (but with the main focus being that he is on Mars dressed like Iron Man), then gives a satirical presentation of Richard Branson's asteroid mining plans.