Sentences with phrase «for robotic probes»

If Obama's policy frees up money for robotic probes, it increases our chances of detecting life.

Although specifics are meager, the new budget would bolster earth sciences, keep on track a new rocket to replace the space shuttle after 2010, and provide more funding for robotic probes to visit other planets.

In 2012, Baxter with co-author Robert M. Freeland II examined, a proposal for a robotic probe to Proxima Centauri entitled, «A Fully Decelerated Probe to Alpha Centauri Using a Perturbed Project Daedalus Design» which was originally published in the 100 Year Starship 2012 Public Symposium Conference Proceedings.

Not exact matches

Facundo Fernandez (left) and Rachel Bennett, use a robotic arm to probe objects with irregularly - shaped surfaces for mass spectrometry.

As for space probes, «the technology of robotics at that time was fairly primitive.»

First prize is $ 20 million for the group that can land a lunar rover — an unmanned robotic probe — on the Moon, take it on a 500 - metre trek and broadcast video back to Earth by 31 December 2012.

On the surface of sweltering Venus, robotic probes survive for no more than a few hours.

Consequently, there is a sustained international effort to use robotic probes to examine Mars for evidence of past, and even present, life that could have retreated to subsurface, liquid aquifers.

Second, robotic probes have measured Venus» atmosphere to be about 97 % CO2, and we can see from the image above (click for a larger version) that the absorption spectrum for CO2 (at Earth temperature and pressure — Venusian temperature and pressure increases the width of the absorption bands, making CO2 a stronger absorber in Venus» atmosphere than in Earth's) strongly overlaps the peak emission spectrum of Venus» surface.