It puts you in control of humanity's first manned mission to Mars, just as it's struck
by a micrometeoroid storm.
The distributions of other species, like Mg and Ca, as observed by MESSENGER, peak at dawn, consistently with a release induced
by micrometeoroid vaporization, assuming a preferential precipitation in the leading side (Burger et al. 2014).
Not exact matches
«There is a possibility of the tether being severed
by impacts of small debris objects or
micrometeoroids,» says a JAXA spokesperson.
Recent modeling along with previously published results from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, a mission that observed Mercury from 2011 to 2015 — has shed new light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury's surface
by tiny dust particles called
micrometeoroids.