Sentences with phrase «from exploring the solar system»
The Office of Planetary Protection is like an interplanetary Environmental Protection Agency, with a mission «to minimize the biological contamination that may result from exploring the solar system.»
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And aside from Mars, readers wanted to know what other places in the solar system would be good to explore.
Through footage from NASA missions, viewers also visit those places in our solar system most likely to harbor elusive life - forms, including Mars and the moons Titan, Io, Europa, and Enceladus, and explore analogous habitats found right here on Earth.
We'll start by exploring our own backyard, the solar system, and move on from there, says Loeb, who heads the Starshot advisory committee.
Living up to all the ambitions of its official name, OSIRIS - REx would explore the origins of asteroids and thus the solar system itself, connect spectral colors observable from Earth to specific minerals on the asteroid, identify potential resources such as water for rocket fuel, help evaluate the threat of asteroids to Earth, and return some regolith (asteroid soil) for detailed analysis.
After a decade - long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India — making it the first - ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
Though far past the planets, the mission continues to send back unprecedented observations of the space environment in the solar system, providing crucial information on the environment our spacecraft travel through as we explore farther and farther from home.
When New Horizons roared into a blue Florida sky on 18 January 2006, it was met with excitement and frustration in equal measure: excitement because, after so many fruitless attempts to send a spacecraft to Pluto — ranging from the ill - fated Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) to the Pluto Kuiper Express (PKE), which breathed their last in ferocious NASA budget cuts in the 1990s and at the turn of the millennium — a mission to explore the last of the nine «traditional» planets in the Solar System was underway, tempered with frustration that it would require such a long period of time in order to reach its quarry.
Project: Using methods of researching for exploring the Sun and other objects from the Solar System Authors: Tsvetoslav Nikolaev Nikolov; Ivan Nikolaev Velchev, Adrian Ivanov Grigorov Teacher: Tsetsa Tsolova Hristova School: PG po KTS, Pravets BULGARIA
An audacious plan from the start, the goal was to explore a virtually unknown region of the outer Solar System, including the gas giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, using twin Voyager spacecraft.
As an eco-technological testbed, the i - flow was also designed to explore new energy harvesting ideas, ranging from flexible solar - panel roofing to a thermoelectric generator that recycles exhaust gases to help power auxiliary electrical systems.
This time round in Space Run Galaxy there are 4 solar systems, 50 zones to explore and hundreds of different runs that will range from the introductory prologue up to the difficult fast paced end game missions.
I wanted to make one more game where you get to explore the whole solar system and travel from planet to planet.
Universe Sandbox lets you explore our own solar system, create brand new ones from scratch, and even fling planets around for your own amusement (and education).
From trading and exploring in a futuristic solar system to fighting off waves of Zombies with your choice of weapon down to an infinitely generated world filled with Craftable materials, we aim to create diverse and explorative games.
A 2015 study by the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center explored the financial returns from residential solar systems around the country compared to typical returns from the stock market — and you might be surprised by the results.