Sentences with phrase «explore giant planets»

The physics associate professor has been actively involved in ongoing space missions that explore giant planets in our solar system.

Launched in 2011 on a nearly five - year interplanetary voyage, Juno is only the second spacecraft to ever orbit Jupiter, after the Galileo mission that explored the giant planet from 1995 to 2003.

Not exact matches

NASA has explored all four terrestrial planets and all four giant planets.

Cassini Saturn Probe Survives 1st «Grand Finale» Dive: NASA's Cassini spacecraft has survived its first plunge between Saturn's cloud tops and the giant planet's innermost rings, a region that no probe had ever explored before.

We used NaCo at VLT to explore the occurrence rate of giant planets and brown dwarfs between typically 0.1 and 8».

We used NaCo at VLT to explore t... ▽ More In anticipation of the VLT / SPHERE planet imager guaranteed time programs, we have conducted a preparatory survey of 86 stars between 2009 and 2013 in order to identify new faint comoving companions to ultimately carry out a comprehensive analysis of the occurence of giant planets and brown dwarf companions at wide (10 - 2000 AU) orbits around young, solar - type stars.

-- to explore the Solar System beyond Mars to understand how giant planets and their moons form and evolve, to search for habitable environments on and within moons (like Enceladus, Europa and Titan), and to examine the farthest bodies in the solar system for clues to the early history of the solar system.

An audacious plan from the start, the goal was to explore a virtually unknown region of the outer Solar System, including the gas giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, using twin Voyager spacecraft.

In this epic sci - fi RPG, adventure through a seamless open world, and pilot giant robotic exoskeletons known as Skells to explore the planet and fight against threats of all sizes.

One planet out of eight is pretty good, and there lots of planets, moons and comets in the solar system that either have hardly been explored or won't be warm enough until later when the sun starts expanding into red giant - hood.