Sentences with phrase «for lunar»

It also has plans for a lunar lander.

Ocean color scientists noted that the NPOESS platform and its VIIRS sensor will not be satisfactory for ocean color science, in part because NPOESS does not provide for lunar calibration of VIIRS and in part because of VIIRS hardware issues involving increased optical cross - talk.9 Ocean color researchers at the workshop asserted that observations should have band coverage ranging from UV to shortwave, and they suggested modifying the GCOS ECV to include ocean color records beyond chlorophyll.

The ocean biology scientists who were present suggested development of a dedicated ocean biology sensor and mission to accommodate the need for lunar calibration, building on the approach taken by the SeaWiFS instrument.

Grumman, the prime contractor for the Lunar Lander module, was forced to lay off ten thousand people in only one month.

After all, he said at NASA he'd used computer models to develop the landing gear for the lunar module and knows a thing or two about them.

This exhibition, entitled ☽ ⦶, takes its name from an interpretation of the alchemical symbol for lunar caustic a material more commonly known as silver nitrate.

In Marten's case it was for her Lunar Nibs project at this year's Venice Biennale and her solo show Eucalyptus Let Us In at Greene Naftali in New York.

In the early 1950s von Braun collaborated with Collier's Weekly magazine illustrators Bonestell and Freeman to popularize his vision of a manned space station that would become a launching platform for lunar landings.

Marten was recognized for Lunar Nibs, which was shown at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and her solo exhibition «Eucalyptus Let Us In» at Green Naftali in New York.

As of January 17, it's time for the Lunar New Year in Guild Wars 2!

A message board for Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Remix has been set up at Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Gamest Mook.

I haven't played Castle Crashers, Pac - man CE DX, or VC2, but they've caught my eye (or my sister's) and have had good reputations; I've partly played Ghost of Sparta, and it's not particularly weak or anything; played the demo for Lunar SSH, though my first read review of it pales it in comparison to its full - console counterpart (s); and I've played, for however long, in ASSF2B, AoZ, and YT (some, little, lot), and like their styles.

For this Lunar New Year, it's the Year of the Dog, and the game is celebrating with some new additions and loot options that you'll certainly be wagging your tail for.

Those include Tacoma, the anticipated followup from the creators of Gone Home, which trades an empty house for a lunar space station.

The journey will start at the Kennedy Space Center's historic Pad 39A near Cape Canaveral, Florida — the same launch pad used by the Apollo program for its lunar missions.

I had been wanting a play mate for my Lunar.

Despite the fact that Honda changed nothing for 2017 aside from swapping the Alabaster Silver exterior finish for Lunar Silver Metallica, the prices for each model have increased across the board by $ 250, with the exception of the EX AWD with a CVT and the EX-L Navi with AWD, which both increased by $ 300.

The headlining comes standard in black cloth, with options for lunar silver or black Alcantara.

«When our team began engineering for the Lunar Rover, there were so many unknowns, including varied terrain, extreme temperatures and the effect of reduced gravity,» Ferenc Pavlics, the project's now retired chief engineer, in a release.

An exclusive demo for Lunar: Silver Star Harmony is now available through the Playstation Store.

Gary Lum assists his daughter, Mei Lum, with decorating the storefront window at Wing on Wo & Co. for the Lunar New Year in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City.

A walkthrough for Lunar Days Sim Date.

Last week was such a hectic week at work that I did not have time to write about this outfit, but thankfully, I am back home in Taiwan for Lunar New Year and could not be happier.

Same thing for The Lunar Chronicles!

Traditionally, I am told that people go out and buy new red clothes for the Lunar New Year, which, I think I will use as an excuse.

Bold colors for Lunar New Years though is a great idea since I don't really like red either.

Haha, I remember I used to wear black for Lunar New Year and definitely got some nasty looks from my grandma.

The need for the lunar push was why the launch window for TESS was a very brief 30 seconds.

Brian Day, Lead for Lunar and Planetary Mapping and Modeling, Solar System Exploration Research...

«Until recently the European Space Agency had plans for a lunar lander (which has since been scrapped) and the science case for Lunar Mission One is quite similar,» Ian Crawford, one of Lunar Mission One's principle scientific advisers, told BBC News.

Bill Nye reveals NASA's plans for a lunar rover that may launch in 2018.

«How much a lunar return costs depends very strongly on how you go about doing it, and on what scale, so there is no single answer to this question,» Paul D. Spudis, a senior staff scientist for the Lunar and Planetary Institute, says via email.

LADEE is (the name is short for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer andpronounced «laddie») is an 844 - pound (383 kilograms) spacecraft that launched from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 7 and arrived in orbit around the moon last month.

According to this theory for lunar formation, a rock type called ferroan anorthosite, or FAN, is the oldest of the Moon's crustal rocks, but scientists have had difficulty dating FAN samples.

Brian Day, Lead for Lunar and Planetary Mapping and Modeling, Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), NASA Ames Research Center

For the lunar imagers out there, a real challenge is to see how many of Plato's cratelets you can capture on the floor of the crater, as many of them are smaller than 2 km across.

The upcoming manned Dragon capsule will ferry astronauts to the ISS, but it isn't equipped for a lunar landing or takeoff.

If used only as a node for lunar missions, the L1 Earth - Moon LPR is inferior to the LOR mission mode.»

«Deposition of metal films on an ionic liquid as a basis for a lunar telescope,» by Borra, Ermanno F.; Seddiki, Omar; Angel, Roger; Eisenstein, Daniel; Hickson, Paul; Seddon, Kenneth R.; Worden, Simon P. Nature.

Both instruments returned far stronger evidence for lunar ice, a resource whose presence the LCROSS impact mission eventually confirmed.

«Navigator, prepare for lunar orbit insertion!»

But much of the rest goes toward goals largely absent from the planetary science community's consensus planning, namely the new push for lunar exploration.

The underlying mechanism for any lunar effect remains unclear, but Dumont suggests that the full moon could affect the body clock by increasing our exposure to light in the evening.

«It's one small step for lunar landers, one giant leap for commercial development of the moon,» he says.

Pull a slide switch and pay for lunar frappachino latte with a lemon cream twist?

The prospect of samples being returned by Chang» e-5 next year — more than four decades since the last ones were snagged by the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976 — is tremendously exciting for lunar science, says Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck College in London.

Sam Bell, played by Sam Rockwell, toils alone in a stark - white base, working as a glorified handyman for Lunar Industries, an ominously glossy corporation that extracts helium - 3 from the lunar surface to fuel fusion reactors back on Earth.

IT IS the best of times and the worst of times for lunar scientists.

«This system is better equipped than the previous model for lunar projects with greater energy needs, such as a manned mission spending the night on the moon,» reports Gonzalez - Cinca.

Although China's technology is antiquated, the country is modernizing rapidly and can draw on breakneck economic growth to support plans for lunar colonies.