Sentences with phrase «earth orbit]»

«I used to have hair,» he quipped on Earth Preserv's one - year anniversary.

Even as they utter words of admiration for what Connolly has accomplished, those who have followed Spinergy's trajectory can't help wondering: How on earth did this guy pull it off?

«Most images from Mars are either raw data that hasn't been color - corrected to match human eyesight, or has been tuned to reflect Earth's lighting conditions because it both affords greater visual contrast and appears more natural.

That's because of the same reason SpaceX's other rockets are already revolutionizing the business of getting to space — it's a lot cheaper to reuse the rocket boosters that propel something out of Earth's gravity well than to use new ones every time.

No one but the craziest person on earth would take over that.»

We have discovered that just like Earth's thunderstorms, these storms contain lightning and hail.

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Mission Statement: «We make, distribute & sell the finest quality all natural ice cream & euphoric concoctions with a continued commitment to incorporating wholesome, natural ingredients and promoting business practices that respect the Earth and the Environment.»

This serial entrepreneur — he founded Internet companies Infospace and Intelius — believes that the moon holds precious metals and rare minerals that can be brought back to help address Earth's energy, health and resource challenges.

Down - to - earth leaders and direct access to management have a great deal of impact.

«As it turns out, one of the perhaps six people on planet Earth who could have looked at my cartoon and said «yes» was a woman married to a guy who was the spitting image of, and had the same job as, Dilbert.

Now retired, Hadfield is the best - selling author of «An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.»

He had Earth Preserv's environmentally correct bath and body products on the shelves in 640 JCPenney stores across the country — in time for Earth Day 1994.

Instead, Plait wrote in a post for SyFy, it's «going near Mars,» specifically in what's called a Hohmann transfer orbit, a highly elliptical path that goes out to Mars orbit and back to Earth orbit on a nearly endless loop - hence the «billion year» detail from Musk.

The vortex, a mass of whirling gas much like a hurricane, is larger than the Earth and has top wind speeds of 220 mph.

The service is opened up to individuals for tinkering, with edits having to pass through an approval process before they are accepted into Google Maps and Google Earth.

• Satellogic, a Palo Alto, Calif. - based provider of earth observation solutions, raised $ 27 million in Series B funding.

The North is sitting on US$ 6 trillion worth of minerals, according to a South Korean state - owned mining company, including rare earth metals, which are used to build everything from smart cars to iPhones.

While the Planet Labs staff ate pancakes that morning in February, two shoebox - size nine - pound pods made in the company's unconventional factory floated from the International Space Station toward a polar orbit of Earth.

Following the launch, SpaceX did something never before seen in space history: It re-landed multiple rocket cores back on earth.

The Resistance series is set an alternative version of Earth in the 1950s, where a bunch of alien creatures called the Chimera have invaded.

While his quote wasn't earth - shattering, it was important.

Mark Zuckerberg is taking on Planet Earth by drone, laser and satellite, pledging to connect the «whole world» to the Internet... One new Facebook user at a time?

Steve Cohen is the executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and professor in the practice of public affairs at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

«Nearly five decades later, the EPA — and science itself — are under assault,» wrote Denis Hayes, the original organizer for the first Earth Day in a message on the Earth Day Network website.

While Craigslist may sound like a decidedly low - brow match for Swarovski, an executive has now come forward to claim credit for the ads, explaining that their intention was to bring the storied crystal maker down to earth.

Currently, China accounts for more than 90 % of the world's rare earth production, and a number of Chinese miners have operations in North Korea.

It will be awarded to the first team that lands a commercial spacecraft on the moon, travels 500 meters across its surface and sends high - definition images and video back to Earth — all before the end of 2015.

In comparison, a single Landsat, a popular Earth - imaging satellite, weighs 4,566 pounds and flies twice as high.

It's an exciting prospect, considering supply on Earth for such rare minerals as palladium — used for electronics and industrial purposes — is finite, pushing prices to $ 784 an ounce on April 2.

That larger network, which Planet Labs hopes to complete within a year, is expected to create a daily photo mosaic of most of Earth.

His name originates with Latin Georgius, from Greek Georgos, meaning farmer, from ge (earth) + ergon (work).

Window seats offer a nice, distracting view of the earth passing below, but the con is you can't get up and move around without jiggling your way past a couple of (possibly sleeping) fellow passengers.

«With Hurricane Harvey approaching landfall, remember, the USA is the most resilient nation on earth because we plan ahead,» Trump said in a statement that was displayed at the bottom of the video.

«Though his time on earth has ended, he is speaking with Jesus now in his heavenly home,» reads a status on his Facebook page.

Having made hundreds of orbits around Saturn, Cassini was also able to deeply investigate other features only glimpsed from Earth or earlier probes.

These employees starting talking to each other and said, «Wouldn't it be cool if we could turn the Google Earth cameras up to the sky?»

The element of surprise was so shocking, so unexpected, so outside the industry norm that to this day, Sharon Stone can not walk this earth without being reminded of it.

On Earth, we have become global travellers.

This is the first in a series on start - up Earth Preserv and its national product launch.

«Once you take a mind - set of scarcity and replace it with a mind - set of abundance, amazing things can happen here on Earth,» Jain said.

The Voyagers also carried with them a golden record of sounds, images, and other information about life on Earth — a basic human catalog that aliens might one day discover and decode.

Leaving Earth as an idea of saving it is just not viable.

New Zealand's national carrier Air New Zealand knows flying can be stressful, especially when you're heading for the farthest reaches of the Earth — like New Zealand.

But in the wake of the global recession, prices in most other countries have fallen back to earth.

At Titan, Cassini found prebiotic chemistry — which means the moon is essentially a frozen version of what the Earth was several billion years ago.

To get the oil, producers fracture, or «frack,» the earth below with a high - pressure liquid mixture to untap oil and gas from shale rock.

«Hide me in your arms just for this night, while the rain breaks against sea and earth...,» he writes.

It possesses a dense nitrogen - rich atmosphere with a surface pressure one and a half times that of Earth's.

In a press release, MoMA says the tower will require almost no energy or carbon emissions during the creation process — «a building that grows out of nothing but earth and returns to nothing but earth.»

But if Google can photograph every surface of the earth and the U.S. government can conduct a census, couldn't Airbnb peek inside 1,000,000 properties if that would make its «community» safer?