Sentences with phrase «first space probe»

The Soviets quickly trumped the accomplishment with the launch of the Luna 2, the first space probe to reach the moon.

On its eight - year data gathering mission, Dawn will be the first space probe to visit and orbit two solar system bodies other than Earth

From the first space probes to the most recent planetary rovers, they have continually delivered impressive discoveries and reshaped our understanding of the cosmos.

Not exact matches

If the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) succeeds at launching its probe, it could be the first environmental group to send its own satellite into space.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

«The UAE Mars probe represents the Islamic world's entry into the era of space exploration,» said UAE president Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan last year when the probe was first announced.

«Interestingly enough, the scientist who is lead primary investigator for the X-ray spectrometer for the space probe, they call it the PIXL, was his first graduate student from Macquarie University, before his KU times.

As the faster of the two probes, Voyager 1 was poised to reach interstellar space first, but its instrument for measuring the solar wind had stopped functioning in 1980.

The new Vesta photos from the Dawn probe, which NASA unveiled today (Aug. 1), include the spacecraft's first full - frame view of the entire asteroid and should help astronomers understand how the space rock formed in the early solar system, researchers said.

The experimental probe's potential first target would be Switzerland's first space mission, a picosatellite called SwissCube that was launched in 2009.

If the mission is successful, Fobos - Grunt will be the first probe to explore the Earth - Phobos - Earth space highway.

And wild the encounter will be, as the probe gathers bits of comet material — the first sample from deep space — and then fires its engine to head back toward Earth.

While earthbound scientists have been observing Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko for years now, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which was dispatched in 2004 to map and study the comet, caught the first glimpse of its target in only the last few weeks.

It's the first climate satellite NASA has launched since a faulty rocket sent the space agency's Glory probe crashing into the ocean in February.

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues answer the question of why NASA's Voyager 1, when it became the first probe to enter interstellar space in mid-2012, observed a magnetic field that was inconsistent with that derived from other spacecraft observations.

Five decades after the U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 moon probe became the first spacecraft to land on another celestial body, we look at the past accomplishments and tantalizing future of unmanned space exploration

In 1980 and 1981 NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 space probes passed for the first time over the planet Saturn, located 1,500 million km from the Sun.

And if sending a probe across the trillions of kilometers of space to visit a nearby star system ever becomes feasible, engineers have their first target.

The European Space Agency's Venus Express space probe has now taken the first picture of the same phenomenon on another plSpace Agency's Venus Express space probe has now taken the first picture of the same phenomenon on another plspace probe has now taken the first picture of the same phenomenon on another planet.

An encounter with Klim Churyumov 11 November 2016 Two years ago this week, the entire world was getting ready for a historic endeavour in space: the first soft landing of a human - made probe on a comet.

Almost three years after NASA's New Horizons deep space probe made its historic flyby of Pluto, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has released the first list of official names for features on the face of the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon.

In 2014, the world looked on eagerly as a probe landed on a comet for the first time, as a test flight brought humans one step closer to Mars, and as astronauts tweeted home striking images from space, giving those left behind on Earth the sense that they were along for the ride.

But the space agency made history with Mariner 9, which became the first probe ever to orbit another planet when it arrived at Mars in November 1971.

In 1990, NASA and the European Space Agency launched the Ulysses probe to make the first observations of its polar regions.

The history of space exploration is full of firsts: first animal in space, first human on the moon, first probe to reach mars.

«The first Advanced LIGO science run will take place with interferometers that can «see» events more than three times further than the initial LIGO detector, so we'll be probing a much larger volume of space» adds David Shoemaker, the MIT Advanced LIGO project leader and a member of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Resespace» adds David Shoemaker, the MIT Advanced LIGO project leader and a member of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ReseSpace Research.

This book, the first volume in the NSTA Press USI series includes 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade spans, as well as pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development in life, physical, earth, and space sciences.

In space from November 14 - 24, 1969, astronauts Peter Conrad, Alan Bean, and Richard Gordon brought the first color television camera to the moon's surface, and studied the Surveyor 3, an unmanned probe that reached the moon's surface on April 20, 1967.

Dating from the European movement's heyday between the First and Second World War, when Surrealism's psychic, sociocultural probings dominated the School of Paris, its soft, drooping pocket - watches scattered around a barren landscape create an unforgettable image of the pliability of time and space.

If scientists behaved like philosophers nobody would ever get anything done because they'd all be too worried about having missed some factor, and anyway what if I'm just imagining the space probe in the first place?