Sentences with phrase «from space debris»

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From donating desperately - needed supplies and funds, to pitching in with hands - on debris clean - up, to offering up space as emergency shelter and beyond, businesses heeded the call to help thousands of individuals displaced and otherwise affected by the devastating massive recent hurricanes and the floods they precipitated.

There's a growing volume of debris in orbit around the earth, commonly called space junk, that ranges from old spacecraft down to tiny flecks of paint.

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.

These Chandra observations showed that expanding debris from a supernova can accelerate subatomic particles faster than previously thought, and in fact can account for the highest - energy protons that come from outer space and are seen hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere.

This substance may originally have been ejected from the small, dark outer moons of Saturn during impacts with space debris.

Over time the constant bombardment of charged particles from the sun, along with space dust, will darken the debris.

But those Sprites could not be deployed from the short - lived KickSat due to concerns that they might create (or become) uncontrollable pieces of space debris that could pose grave risks to astronauts who were in a Soyuz rocket en route to the ISS at the time.

Professor Vasile is leading the Stardust Network, an international, EU - funded programme comprising researchers and leaders from 20 different institutions, with the purpose of advancing research into the manipulation of asteroids and space debris, and the aim of protecting the planet and space assets from catastrophic impacts.

«He was well known for filling a bench / desk / glasshouse space with debris from one experiment and then moving on to another... clear area for the next.

«Although there is a sort of sandblasting going on in space all of the time, both from man - made and natural debris, we've only had two operational spacecraft ever hit by man - made debris (that we know of) that sustained any major damage.»

Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crew members.

Earth is constantly being pelted with debris from outer space.

The winds, which travel at up to 500 kilometres a second, are easily strong enough to pick up debris from within a galaxy and deposit it far out in space, says Dopita.

Various lines of evidence, including observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, support the idea that shock waves from the expanding debris of stars that exploded as supernovas accelerate cosmic rays up to energies of 1,000 trillion electron volts (PeV).

However, officials with the Air Force's Joint Functional Component Command (JFCC) at the Joint Space Operations Center, which is monitoring the spacecraft, were unsure if the debris was from Progress 59 itself or the craft's upper - stage rocket body.

Batbaatar and co-author Alan Gillespie, a UW research professor emeritus in Earth and Space Sciences, collected samples from moraines, which are long ridges of rocky debris dropped at a glacier's edge.

Space agencies continue to monitor the debris as new objects are added every few days (from launches, collisions, and explosions) and old junk falls back through the atmosphere, which happens about once a day.

From lasers to space harpoons to robotic arms, the challenge of cleaning up debris orbiting our planet has inspired some ideas that would make Isaac Asimov proud.

Orbital space around the Earth is full of deadly debris from old missions.

But debris falls from space all the time, and big objects the size of UARS come down about once a year.

THE risk to spacecraft from a collision with space debris could be reduced by equipping launchers with a gossamer - thin «sail».

A ground - based telescope that can scan the skies faster than any other of its size could help to protect satellites from collisions with space debris and each other.

When Comet C / 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) passed just 140,000 kilometres from Mars on 19th October 2014, depositing a large amount of debris in the martian atmosphere, space agencies coordinated multiple spacecraft to witness the largest meteor shower in recorded history.

Almost every mission into space has created new debris, either from the launch vehicles, objects falling off satellites, or unintended collisions.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.

The rest of the monitored space debris ranges in size from the size of a softball, to massive rocket bodies, all orbiting uncontrolled at relative speeds averaging about 22,300 mph in low - Earth orbit, where the majority of the objects reside.

Clever ways to find more space debris, and pinpoint where it came from, will help us rewrite what we know about the solar system's turbulent youth

The debris probably was fallout from a satellite launch at a nearby space center, and highlighted the persistent problem of rocket debris falling on inhabited areas in China.

Asteroids and other space debris left over from the solar system's creation regularly slammed into Earth early in its history.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) researchers are developing an electrodynamic tether designed to generate electricity that will slow down space - based debris, according to a report from Agence France Presse.

In 1996, a French satellite was damaged by debris from a rocket that exploded 10 years earlier, and a 2007 anti-satellite test launched by China introduced more than 3,000 pieces of debris to space, according to NASA.

Subcommittee member Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA), who is not a humans - to - Mars enthusiast, pointedly asked Weir why money would not be better spent on protecting Earth from asteroids or cleaning up space debris than sending people to Mars.

The photodetector array camera and spectrometer (PACS) aboard the Herschel Space Observatory allows imaging observations in the far infrared at unprecedented resolution, i.e. at better than 6» to 12» over the wavelength range of 60 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m to 210 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m. Together with the results from ground - based observations, these spatially resolved data can be modelled to determine the nature of the debris and its evolution more reliably than would be possible from unresolved data alone.

The outer disk is revealed in reprocessed archival Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS F110W images, as well as new coronagraphic H band images from the Very Large Telescope SPHERE instr... ▽ More We present the first scattered - light images of the debris disk around 49 ceti, a ~ 40 Myr A1 main sequence star at 59 pc, famous for hosting two massive dust belts as well as large quantities of atomic and molecular gas.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope also picked up signs of debris from a likely asteroid collision in 2014.

► An astronaut removes six large canisters of genetic research materials from a drifting space station with lights flashing and sirens blaring; a giant spiny rat chases her and pounds on the escape hatch window with paws and tentacles, cracking it (we can not see its face) as the escape pod launches and we see the space station explode into fireballs that fill the screen and soon after we see the cracked pod hatch window break apart and the pod explodes into chunks of flaming debris (the astronaut is certainly dead although we do not see her after the explosion).

The usual space battles take a backseat to scenes of controlled chaos (like a shootout between the crew, with the aid of a temporary ally, and a squad of Klingons) and coordinated feats of precision (like a truly thrilling sequence in which Kirk and Harrison dash through debris in the vacuum of space from one ship to another, with the complications mounting at every turn).

WHAT: When their space shuttle is destroyed by hurtling debris from a damaged Russian satellite, U.S. astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) are left adrift in space with limited oxygen and a minimal chance of survival.

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Your bird will require a cage and space that is free from debris, feces and trash.

The main purpose of small woody debris on Redwood Creek is to give adequate space for small fish to remain undetected by aerial predators and provide cooler temperature waters away from direct sunlight.

Scientists who analyzed the geological content of both Earth and the moon hypothesized, in a 2015 paper published in Nature, that this explosive impact sent debris from Theia and Earth into space, where it likely coalesced to become the moon: part Earth, part Theia.

It's good fun for the first hour; you blast around, usually reacting to the constant alert stream on the side of the screen which is directing you to comets, valuable minerals, space debris, battles, distress beacons and more from which you can acquire the resources needed to build new stuff.

Set amid a cloud of centuries old space junk, players move from ship to ancient ship, frequently entering the void to recover valuable debris.

This quickly descended into all - out chaos, but eventually we cleared away enough of the debris that we can now bring you this, our list of rejected titles for Earth Defense Force 2: Invaders from Planet Space.

A homage to the bizarre attraction of kitsch, Detroit Debris establishes a highly sculptural space, with parts of hardly recognizable objects jutting out from the main core of the sculpture.

Murphy's works are created using a technique that involves suspending widely - spaced individual shapes or fragments of imagery that, when viewed from side angles resemble nothing more than a floating debris field, but when viewed head - on combine to form a single, unified image.

Debris from the short - lived renovation work reaches the fifth storey and fills the space where architects had planned to build an indoor ski slope, blocking access to the bottom floors that originally offered self - sufficient living with services such as a chemist, a shopping centre and an art gallery.

Rivers has used the found interiors of the space and made new structures from old props, echoing the debris seen in the film.

Move ahead forty years and the city's debris is from new development, which has seized vacant space throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.