Sentences with phrase «for lunar scientists»

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

The good news for lunar scientists is that the new results are consistent with earlier findings.

Not exact matches

For one, scientists would pay a pretty penny to send up equipment that could study the lunar body.

Our third expedition will bring back samples of lunar dust and rocks that everyone can own, providing scientists with a new source of lunar materials for research, and making these treasures from the Moon available to collectors and commercial purposes.

Experts appearing include Anjana Ahuja, science writer for The Times, Dr Kevin Fong, Co-Director of the Centre for Aviation Space, UCL Professor Gerard de Groot, author of Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent madness of the American Lunar Quest and Sima Adya, Space Missions Scientist.

Scientists called the dust lunar regolith, from the Greek rhegos for «blanket» and lithos for «stone.»

«They found moondust in every nook and cranny,» says William Larson of the Kennedy Space Center, a lead scientist and program manager in NASA's efforts to develop techniques for using lunar resources.

While scientists have speculated on the presence of neon in the lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first time.

But scientists could piggyback on those journeys to study topics such as the plasma environment around the lunar poles, or to begin establishing a network of geophysical landers that would listen for moonquakes.

NASA scientist Noah Petro sheds some light on the April 15, 2014, lunar eclipse that will leave the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in darkness for several hlunar eclipse that will leave the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in darkness for several hLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in darkness for several hours.

The measurements have also played a vital role in UNH space scientists» efforts to develop both the first Web - based tool for predicting and forecasting the radiation environment in near - Earth, lunar, and Martian space environments and a space radiation detector that possesses unprecedented performance capabilities.

A postdoc at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona and an associate research scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, Richmond is frustrated by her struggle for stability.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

Still, the hunt for nonterran life could be accomplished with a tool familiar in any biology lab, scientists suggested here yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and in a paper in press at Astrobiology.

Last month the government banned four scientists — including former ISRO head G. Madhavan Nair, who oversaw India's successful Chandrayaan - 1 lunar probe in 2008 — from holding a government position for the rest of their lives.

Convened last week in Sydney by the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, the event brought together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar scientists and government agencies that are all working to make space mining a reality.

To search for the tide's signature, the scientists turned to data taken by LRO's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA, which is mapping the height of features on the moon's surface.

«To know the origin and evolution of the moon is to know those of Earth,» says Tatsuaki Hashimoto of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the lead scientist for a proposed lunar rover called SELENE - 2.

In mid-January, NASA announced its lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (CATALYST) programme, which will give participants access to resources including NASA scientists, software and testing labs in exchange for the rights to lander designs born from the partnership.

But scientists working on a way to harvest oxygen from the iron oxide in lunar soil for future moon bases realized that they happened on a better way to make steel here on Earth.

The scientists are searching for unseen structures of Lunar geology such as lava flow complexes and buried craters.

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.

«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 elunar 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 eLunar and Planetary Institute, says via email.

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.

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.