Sentences with phrase «first lunar surface»

China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.

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

They concluded that nearly all the water in the first 200 nanometres of the lunar surface comes from the solar wind.

Reflectors planted on the lunar surface may provide the first cracks in Einstein's theory of gravity, says Stuart Clark

For the first time, NASA may use commercial landers to reach the lunar surface.

DISCOVERING which creature first hit terra firma has got to be as thrilling in its way as watching Armstrong's big moment on the dusty lunar surface.

Yutu — whose name means Jade Rabbit — was also videoed taking its first journey onto the lunar surface.

JAPAN Since its first launch in 1970, the country has lofted numerous Earth - observation satellites, a spacecraft powered by a solar sail, and SELENE, a lunar orbiter that mapped the moon's surface.

The Diviner survey has provided the first chemical map of the entire lunar surface, he added.

In the summer of 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humanity's first steps onto the lunar surface during nasa's Apollo 11 mission.

A $ 1 million prize will be given to the first team that can demonstrate a prototype capable of performing maneuvers that simulate ferrying a payload between the surface of the moon and lunar orbit.

Chang» e-1, launched in 2007, spent 16 months in orbit snapping the nation's first images of the lunar surface.

The first ever high - definition video images of the lunar surface were released this week by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation).

Lunar swirls — wispy splotches of lighter surface material tens of kilometers across — were enigmatic enough when first seen from Earth.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), circling the moon at an altitude of 31 miles, recently sent back the first global temperature maps of the surface (at right).

Two years after placing its very first rover on the surface of the moon, China has announced it would launch a mission to return lunar samples to Earth later this year.

A winged, arrow - shaped spaceship, the Pan American, dart - like space shuttle Orion [a phallic symbol or representation of «sperm»], soars from Earth through space toward the Moon, bound first for Space Station 5 - a wheel - shaped way - station for passengers traveling on to the lunar surface.

The «Water» pictures include large - format color images that often read like artful abstractions at first glance: the dried - up Colorado River Delta in Baja, Mexico, with its lunar - like silvery gray surfaces; a great swirl of water at China's Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River that brings the British painter J.M.W. Turner to mind; and an aerial picture of dry - farming land in Aragon, Spain, whose jutting organic forms suggest the shapes of Picasso or Jean Dubuffet.

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average