Sentences with phrase «by lunar»

One of the largest mosaic photographs in the world is the Northern Polar Mosaic created by NASA using images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter; the total resolution of the final mosaic image is an enormous 680 gigapixels.

Probably in the 16 - 17th century and before you would also have strongly denied that the ocean tides were caused by a lunar influence.

Anna McNay: Can you tell me about the works from your Empty Spheres series — inspired by lunar eclipses — that are on show in your joint exhibition with the painter Pandora Mond at Lacey Contemporary?

Timespinner, by Lunar Ray Games, is one of those games.

Common features shared by lunar rilles and similar structures on other bodies suggest that common causative mechanisms operate widely in the solar system.

At the top we were met by a lunar landscape - the air icily cold but so fresh.

«Jungbok», second of the three dog days or one of the hottest days of the year by lunar calendar falls on Thursday, July 29 this year.

by Walter Chaw The danger is getting lost in fantasy, of being consumed by the lunar flame of lamplight filtered through celluloid.

Your emotions are ruled by the lunar cycle, and this dainty celestial necklace perfectly reflects that.

I'm also delighted and surprised by the Lunar Dress ($ 168), especially in the grey - toned blue hue.

I do think the strongest piece of the [McClintock] study is that women's cycles can be affected by lunar phases in the same location in the same way and that if they are sleeping and rising at the same time, therefore exposed to the same light / dark exposure, that those two things can create synchrony via the pineal gland, which consequently moderates melatonin's effect on ovulation patterns.

Mosaic of photos taken of the far side of the moon by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, orbiting at an altitude of just 30 miles (50 km).

«The Russian programme is dominated by lunar exploration.»

The number of new craters found by Speyerer and colleagues is greater than anticipated by standard impact - modeling rates used by lunar scientists.

CRATER CRAZE Images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 2009 to 2015 revealed 222 new impact craters (in yellow) on the moon.

When Arlin Crotts from Columbia University compared reliable sightings of these distortions with records of radon emissions collected by lunar spacecraft, he found that the locations of radon emissions and distortions matched perfectly.

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.

Many solar eclipses are preceded by a lunar eclipse about two weeks earlier — a coincidence that may have helped ancient astrologers «predict» an eclipse, Close writes.

Far side of the moon: this is a composite image of the lunar farside taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009, note the absence of dark areas.

Panoramic lunar view taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera of the north rim of Cabeus crater.

«I think the Tory party must have been affected by the lunar eclipse last night,» Mr McDonnell told ITV's Good Morning Britain.

This question was answered in 1983 by the lunar calculations of Colin J Humphreys and W Graeme Waddington, Oxford University, and refined and confirmed in 1989 by Bradley E Schaefer of NASA / Goddard Space Flight Centre, now Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Louisiana State University.

It was also well below the 44 % surge seen in the 12 months to February, a result that was undoubtedly impacted by Lunar New Year distortions.

To keep the initiative rigorous, Moonrocks is working with Cheskin Research, in Redwood Shores, Calif., specialists in the market segmentation, to ensure that ideas picked up by Lunar are aimed at sufficiently promising and well - defined markets.

Not exact matches

I mean, we should have a lunar base by now.

Like the Ansari X Prize, which was claimed in 2004 by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen for a pair of flights by SpaceShipOne, the Google Lunar X Prize is open to private industry and non-government entities worldwide.

One building houses the plasma injector, resembling a lunar capsule, swathed in tubes and wires and shielded from the offices nearby by steel dividers decked in blast - proof tiles.

A new generation of service companies, like Lunar Design, have figured out that it's all in the multiple By most outward measures, Lunar Design would be considered a success.

Origin Group was founded by Dave Bayless, an investment banker and a part - time consultant to Lunar.

Moon Express is one of a handful of teams from around the world competing for the $ 30 million Lunar X Prize, a competition organized by the X Prize Foundation and sponsored by Google.

Then Lunar can add enhanced support — and an infusion of capital, if necessary — as the prospect blossoms, by hooking it into Lunar's virtual network of technologists, consultants, and other business experts.

By setting up deals in which Lunar would receive equity - based compensation from its clients, the founders could tap into «the power of the multiple» — the ability to turn what might have been simply a fee - for - service payment into an equity stake worth much more in the long run.

Opportunities for companies like Lunar have been increased by a fertile investment niche opened by a mismatch between the high degree of entrepreneurial innovation in today's economy and the changed demands of venture capital.

I also suggest The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein, which gave me the idea for the Google Lunar XPrize and the work we're doing with Planetary Resources to prospect and mine asteroids.

By the same token, the onus is also on Lunar not to make impossible promises to its employees.

So Smith and Furbershaw set out to liberate Lunar by hitching its fortunes to something more hopeful than the fee - for - service treadmill.

By 1964, it was selected for NASA's Apollo Program as the rocket that would conduct a lunar - orbit rendezvous.

A rare view of the far side of the moon, taken by the China National Space Administration's lunar probe.

China is entering week - long Lunar New Year holiday and 6.5 million travelers are expected to be spending that break overseas, splashing billions of dollars over the break, according to a report by country's tourism authority and travel website Ctrip.

They've set a goal of sending their first robotic lander to the lunar surface by the end of 2017.

The key uncertainty is how much the data has been distorted by the fall of China's annual Lunar New Year holidays, which were in February this year and in January in 2012 and which typically see factories shut up shop for two weeks.

It's hard to be sure, but Business Insider and Flight Club think Musk, the Tesla CEO, is wearing the Nike Lunar Flyknit HTM NRG, a shoe created by the renowned design trio of Hiroshi Fujiwara, Tinker Hatfield, and Mark Parker.

While dreams of moon - bases and lunar colonies may have been ignited by the success of Apollo 11, our sole reliance on the government to forge our future in space has, unfortunately, left many disappointed with the pace of progress.

The goal of this study is to provide information to decision makers on the emerging market for lunar activity by analyzing customers, market size, trends, and areas of uncertainty in eight distinct potential markets.

This high demand from early adopters, coupled with the fact that commercial lunar transportation is projected to generate multiple billions of dollars in annual revenue by the year 2020 (Anderson 9) suggests that lunar payload delivery is a very real, viable business opportunity for enterprising space startups and their visionary investors.

Additionally, the $ 30 million Google Lunar X Prize has initiated competition to reach the lunar surface by 2015, and like many competitions before, is spurring the creation of an entirely new industry, this time for lunar servLunar X Prize has initiated competition to reach the lunar surface by 2015, and like many competitions before, is spurring the creation of an entirely new industry, this time for lunar servlunar surface by 2015, and like many competitions before, is spurring the creation of an entirely new industry, this time for lunar servlunar services.

Likewise, during Lunar New Year and the National Day golden week periods, mainland China will usually arrange for seven - day consecutive holidays by reshuffling workdays and weekends.

Trade data for the same month revealed the country incurred its first trade deficit in local - currency terms since early 2014, mainly due to a surge in imports, although the figures were probably affected by the timing of the Lunar New Year holiday.

However, this year we are witnesses to something less common, a lunar tetrad: ie a group of four lunar eclipses that are always separated by six - month intervals.

Man has evolved from being closely connected to our environment, i.e. understanding the lunar and solar cycle, and creating a living off of what this earth offers to us to creating a living off the earth by damaging our environment and less and less of us knowing anything about the celestial bodies that surround us.