Sentences with phrase «for human explorers»

The same proximity to Mars that will one day doom Phobos makes it an extremely attractive staging post for human explorers.

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He notes that human explorers could search for resources such as water.

According to Collins, «Beyond its importance for astronauts and future space explorers, this research also could lead to novel methods for preventing and treating human disease on Earth.

British biographer Holmes» passion for the topic comes through in this rich and often entertaining chronicle of intrepid vertical explorers who risked (and in many cases lost) their lives lifting human flight out of the realm of mythology and into the air.

Noble as human exploration may be, we would know very little about anything in the cosmos much more distant than the moon were it not for robotic explorers.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

Yet scientists still don't have enough data to pick the ideal destinations for tomorrow's robotic or human explorers.

For now, Stone and other scientists are excited about the robotic explorer's accomplishment on August 25, 2012 — the same date, coincidentally, that the world lost its most famous human space explorer, Neil Armstrong.

Remote sensing suggests that there are even younger and even more diverse basalts on the Moon, waiting for future robotic or human explorers to investigate, Jolliff said.

Orion will use an advanced crew capsule design utilizing state of the art technology and is a key element of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and will succeed the Space Shuttle in transporting a new generation of human explorers to and from the International Space Station, the Moon and eventually to Mars and beyond.

Our passion for human adventure is driven by the endevours of the explorers taking part in them.

EVERETT, Wash. — For 13 months, Engineering Club students at Washington State University Everett have spent countless hours designing, building, testing and rebuilding a Mars rover meant to be able to work alongside human explorers on the surface of the Red Planet.

Who: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Wes Bentley What: A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to travel through space in search of an inhabitable planet for the human race.

Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardas Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason.

Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason.

James Turrell and Robert Irwin worked with Ed Wortz, a Garrett Corporation psychologist who did human - factors engineering for NASA missions, researching the «Ganzfeld» concept which describes the experience of snowblind arctic explorers or pilots navigating dense fog.

Described by William Burroughs as «an inner space explorer», his work continues to resonate for its emphasis on the human voice in its purest form, the «raw primal voice» of humanity.

Sylvia Earle, the oceanographer and explorer, sees no future for wild harvests, given rising human populations and their growing appetite for protein.

It only took a few decades for humans to extract 90 percent of the big fish in the ocean and cut the number of Coral Reefs in half, said Dr. Sylvia Earle, a famous oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer - In - Residence.

Features explanations of the meteorological variables of climate change, such as El Nino and the ozone layer Covers Earth's past warming and cooling cycles, and how human activity has affected this natural pattern Includes up to date discussions of the Bonn and Kyoto treaties Science Explorer: Weather and Climate: Interactive textbook (Hardcover) by Michael J. Padilla (Author) $ 21.30 · Reading level: Ages 9 - 12 · Hardcover · Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; CD - Rom edition (January 2002) Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Paperback) by William James Burroughs (Author) $ 39.40 · Paperback: 316 pages · Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (October 29, 2005) Level - HS / College educated This volume provides an up - to - date presentation of climate change and its implications for society.

Climate Explorer's graphs and maps show projected conditions for two possible futures: one in which humans make a moderate attempt to reduce global emissions of heat - trapping gases, and one in which we go on conducting business as usual.

It will be attached to the belly pan of the Mars 2020 rover, a wheeled robot that aims to determine the habitability of the Martian environment, search for signs of ancient life, and assess natural resources and hazards for future human explorers.

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