Sentences with phrase «from reaching the planet»

That mount faced away from Earth, preventing their signals from reaching the planet.
The sun's radiance has dropped slightly since the 1970s, and dust thrown up by recent volcanic eruptions, especially that of Mexico's El Chichon in 1982, should be keeping some sunlight from reaching the planet.

Not exact matches

The powerful Titan IV rocket lifted off near dawn in October 1997, went behind a cloud from our vantage point and then thankfully emerged serenely on its way to Saturn, reaching the planet on July 1 2004.
Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.
To circle Earth from about 250 miles up, a spacecraft must reach a blistering speed of 17,500 mph, meaning it orbits the planet once every 90 minutes.
It will be fun to have absentee ballots sent in from planets in our solar system as well as the deep reaches of space.
Is it not conceivable that Mankind, at the end of its totalization, its folding - in upon itself, may reach a critical level of maturity where, leaving Earth and stars to lapse slowly back into the dwindling mass of primordial energy, it will detach itself from this planet and join the one true, irreversible essence of things, the Omega point?
3) knowing the speed of light is the universal constant, we can judge age of universe from how long it took those beams of light to reach our planet.
While there is no existential god that dispenses grace or justice I believe that the gods of the bible, the «Elohim», were scientists from another world who had reached the technical abilities to travel through space to other planets and clone humans and they did just that on our planet thousands of years ago.
The asteroid — named 1I /» Oumuamua, which means «to reach out from afar» in Hawaiian — sped through our solar system, steeply entering from above the plane on which the planets orbit the sun.
To reach the potentially habitable planet Proxima b, these «photogravitational» assists counterintuitively require first sending the light sail swooping blisteringly close to the bright, sunlike stars Alpha Centauri A and B — even though they are nearly two trillion kilometers farther from us than Proxima b's smaller, dimmer host star, Proxima Centauri.
According to a year's worth of data sent back from the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter launched in November 2005, the second planet from the sun is nothing like Earth — from its torrid surface to the upper reaches of its acid - laced atmosphere.
To prevent his shipmates from trying to rescue him and dooming themselves before they reach the Red Planet, he opens up his spacesuit helmet.
The atmosphere of Mars, though much thinner that Earth's, will shield NASA Mars rovers Opportunity and Curiosity from comet dust, if any reaches the planet.
and some of the atoms of molecules then reach escape velocity and fly away from the planets.
The structure of the heliosphere plays a big role in how particles from interstellar space — called cosmic rays — reach the inner solar system, where Earth and the other planets are.
The asteroid — now named 1I / ʻOumuamua, which means «to reach out from afar» in Hawaiian — sped through our solar system, steeply entering from above the plane on which planets orbit the sun.
Astronomers will be searching for direct evidence of a ninth planet in the far reaches of the solar system; its existence was inferred this year from its gravitational effects on icy objects beyond Pluto.
Researchers generally think that the zonal winds arise from convection, the tendency of hotter gases to rise and cooler gases to fall, he says, although they don't agree whether the convection that produces the stripes reaches to the planet's core or takes places only near the surface.
In contrast, in slightly wetter parts of Mongolia the largest glaciers did date from the ice age but reached their maximum lengths tens of thousands of years earlier in the glacial period rather than at its culmination, around 20,000 years ago, when glaciers around most of the planet peaked.
The planet's climate ultimately becomes altered when these gases start to affect the amount of energy from the sun that is allowed to reach Earth's surface or is stored in the atmosphere.
Over time, the rings spread out, and the icy bits that drifted farthest from Saturn eventually reached distances where their gravitational attraction for each other could overcome the planet's tidal forces that tended to rip them apart — a process that is still happening today, according to observations by the Cassini spacecraft now touring the Saturn system.
The impact of solar storms on Jupiter's aurora was tracked by monitoring the X-rays emitted during two 11 hour observations in October 2011 when an interplanetary coronal mass ejection was predicted to reach the planet from the Sun.
Background The majority of light that reaches Earth from space comes from the sun, which is our planet's principle light source.
Did our planet make its own water through geologic processes, or did water come to us via icy comets from the far reaches of the solar system?
If everything else goes well — including a lunar flyby in May researchers will start getting results from the planet - hunting telescope in a few months, after it reaches its final orbit in June.
It's cosmic rays «When the Sun is active, its magnetic field is better at shielding us against the cosmic rays coming from outer space, before they reach our planet.
Six billion years from now, alien astronomers studying the rocky remains around our burned out sun might reach the same conclusion: terrestrial planets once circled our parent star.
The MARSIS instrument is one of seven science experiments riding aboard Mars Express, which launched from Earth on June 2, 2003 and reached the red planet in December of that year.
The second MOC reached the red planet in September 1997, and continued to return images from Mars until the spacecraft was lost in November 2006.
The proposals include blocking more of the sun's rays from reaching Earth and removing carbon dioxide from our planet's atmosphere.
Reaching Mercury from Earth poses significant technical challenges, since the planet orbits so much closer to the Sun than does the Earth.
As a comparison, a Type I civilization has evolved with the technological ability to harness all the energy that reached their planet from their star; a Type II civilization is much more advanced, with the ability of harnessing all of the energy from their star.
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.
Rich in sulfuric acid, bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the planet's south pole to its low southern latitudes, and disappear just as quickly.
«We have reached this orbit for the first time through aerobraking and with the heaviest orbiter ever sent to the Red Planet, ready to start searching for signs of life from orbit.»
In 1989, when Voyager 2 hurtled through the far reaches of our solar system passing the planet Neptune, a live feed from JPL opened a window onto an exotic world nearly 3 billion miles away.
Both objects formed among the rocky and icy protoplanets beyond the Solar System's «ice line» now located around 2.7 AUs, but the early development of Jupiter apparently prevented such large protoplanets between the gas giant and planet Mars from agglomerating into even bigger planetary bodies, by sweeping many into pulverizing collisions as well as slinging them into the Sun or Oort Cloud, or even beyond Sol's gravitational reach altogether.
It's not surprising that Pluto is a very cold place: After all, the dwarf planet is 40 times as far away from our sun as we are, so there's not a whole lot of sunlight reaching it.
So in a brief moment of fury, Thanos lashes out with the gauntlet and creates a galaxy - shattering shockwave that tears through planets, so mighty even Galactus stays away from it — observing that it will reach so far across the stars that by the time it reaches Earth, it'll be at just two percent of its power.
Now that the entire crew is awake, they decide to investigate a human transmission coming from a nearby planet and see if that planet is a better bet for colonization than the one they were supposed to reach in seven more years.
2, Marvel and Fox reached a surprise agreement: Ego the Living Planet in exchange for permission to change Negasonic Teenage Warhead's mutant powers from telepathy to explosive abilities in Deadpool.
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Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].
Just imagine that almost a half of the planet's population is connected, and the information can reach people from Singapore to Mexico in just a couple of seconds.
Newton's laws specifically state that, while the gravity of a planet gets weaker and weaker the farthest from it you travel, there is no distance where the force of gravity reaches zero.
Eager to commence my journey home from the opposite side of the planet, I departed the lounge and passed through security to reach the rather sparse gate area for my gate and five other flights.
An iconic destination for tourists from all over the planet, it is not an easy destination to reach.
Alice VR is a sci - fi adventure videogame that takes place in the farthest reaches of space, where a malfunction prompts the ship's AI to wake players from cryosleep and forces an emergency landing on a foreign planet called Speculo.
- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».
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