Sentences with phrase «back to earth»

Once it reestablishes contact Tuesday night, it will take 16 months for New Horizons to send its cache of data — 10 years» worth — back to Earth.

This silicon - based solid composed of 99 percent empty space slowed and then cradled the particles for their long journey back to Earth.

«The team was so fortunate to pick such a great comet,» says Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington in Seattle, who led NASA's Stardust mission to bring comet dust back to Earth.

If scientists hoped to find a clear - cut path through which molecules might travel from the surface to the depths, the images Galileo sent back to Earth did not reveal it at all.

Fitted with a spectrometer that measured the varying wavelengths of light reflected back to Earth, the scope allowed him to determine Europa's composition, and prove that its surface is an expanse of frozen water.

HOUSTON — NASA's last space shuttle ever to visit the International Space Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to Earth.

In 2008, it successfully destroyed a failed US spy satellite that was slowly falling back to Earth and posed a small risk of falling on inhabited Pacific islands.

It hopefully contains the first samples of an asteroid ever brought back to Earth by human effort.

Over the ensuing hours, Stardust transmitted its data back to Earth, including an image taken from about 500 kilometers away.

Improving on Viking's results will require bringing samples back to Earth, where researchers can analyze them in far sharper detail.

Cassini sends radio signals through the rings back to Earth, allowing researchers to gauge the size and density of the particles.

Even the Russian Soyuz capsules that are the only route back to Earth since the space shuttle was retired last year are not ideal, because they lack freezers to store the seedlings during the plunge home, says the experiment's lead investigator Imara Perera, a plant biologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

In 2009, Elsila and her colleagues found the amino acid glycine in samples from comet Wild 2, gathered and brought back to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission.

It is an opportunity to give back to the earth what comes from the earth,» he said.

When Atlantis came back to Earth last July, marking the end of the U.S. space shuttle program, many lamented the passing of NASA's big - dreams era.

It is the only space vehicle from which astronauts have captured a satellite in orbit to be repaired in place, or brought back to Earth for repair and re-launch.

The astronauts snared samples of the metal filings on tape to be brought back to Earth for analysis.

XCOR reps said at a press conference Wednesday that its Lynx suborbital spaceship, still in the prototype phase, will be a two - seat (one pilot, one passenger) craft that takes off like an airplane and glides back to Earth like a space shuttle.

Colonel Husband's wife and two children waited there to welcome him back to Earth.

JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, announced that Hayabusa had apparently collected bits of Itokawa and would now head back to Earth to drop off the first - ever samples of an asteroid.

Like the space shuttles, the Lynx will glide back to Earth by descending in a series of circles.

These satellites, launched to monitor Soviet military movements, captured photos on massive spools of film that were parachuted back to earth and snagged in midair by U.S. planes.

A technique called image deconvolution sharpens the raw, unprocessed images beamed back to Earth.

The programme will culminate in 2005 with a mission to bring samples of the Martian surface back to Earth (see «Return to the Red Planet»).

Now their multi-pronged plan calls for the robotic spacecraft Chang» e 5 to launch in the second half of 2017 atop a Long March - 5 rocket, land on the moon and collect several pounds of lunar samples, then hurl the specimens back to Earth.

When a commercial capsule splashes into the Pacific on Sunday, it will restore the capability to bring experiments back to Earth

And we need to bring them back to Earth.»

Contour is programmed to send a signal back to Earth if it doesn't hear anything from mission control for 96 hours — that could happen as late as 10:09 p.m. EDT Monday.

And the sun's brightness can swamp a hardy spacecraft's efforts to send signals back to Earth.

«Remember, a reusable rocket has got to be heavier than an expendable one, because you need some extra fuel to get back to Earth safely,» he says.

> The ideal mission timeline runs as follows: 200 days from Earth to Mars, 571 days in Mars orbit and on the surface, and 207 days from Mars back to Earth, for a total duration of just over 2 and a half years.

After a 2.5 - year journey back to Earth, the spacecraft will jettison its precious cargo in a reentry capsule that will drift down to Earth on parachutes in late 2023.

On Tuesday, the probe is due to begin transmitting back to Earth the data it collected during the fly - by, Paul said.

By studying the sizable and pristine sample of material OSIRIS - REx is expected to bring back to Earth from Bennu, scientists hope to unlock deep secrets about the origins of the terrestrial planets and of life itself.

More importantly, STEREO, which provided essential data for early warnings, is now behind the Sun and is unable to communicate any data back to Earth.

Eight years after a NASA mission brought them back to Earth, seven grains of interstellar dust keep giving scientists fresh puzzles to ponder.

The new Space Environment In - Situ Suite (SEISS) instrument onboard NOAA's GOES - 16 is working and successfully sending data back to Earth.

In the cool upper atmosphere, ice crystals would have formed around tiny nuclei of volcanic dust, before falling back to Earth.

This ensures that the fielder arrives beneath the ball when it comes back to Earth (see Diagram).

Under Fillon's plan, the CRV would be built in stages by adapting and modernising the Russian Soyuz capsule, which is likely to be used to bring astronauts back to Earth, at least initially.

If a volcano ejects vast quantities of water which freezes in the upper atmosphere, some of this may combine with sulphur dioxide to form droplets of sulphuric acid that quickly rain back to Earth.

Once dissolved in large water droplets and frozen, however, it falls back to Earth as acid rain in a matter of hours.

BACK TO EARTH This year Hamilton is once again on sabbatical.

Corona's pair of constantly rotating cameras captured images on film cassettes that were parachuted back to Earth.

It also allows the space shuttle to glide back to Earth for a runway landing.

About half these have fallen back to Earth and of the remainder, only a small fraction are operational.

Then, after just a week, the Austrian returned home, taking Artsebarsky and another of the new three cosmonauts back to Earth with him.

After Education Secretary Arne Duncan received a standing ovation for a talk in which he encouraged everyone to «raise the bar» and to «break the rules» on how schools are run and teachers are trained, Kamen brought them back to earth.

Every satellite that flies lower than geostationary orbit (22,500 miles) is destined to fall back to Earth eventually.

The Chinese moon rover has moved away from its parent spacecraft, Chang» e-3, which successfully landed on the moon on Saturday — and the pair have already started snapping photos of each other and beaming them back to Earth.