Sentences with phrase «from space probes»

[19] Data from space probes subsequently confirmed this view.

«Our children and grandchildren will receive the amazing photos from these space probes.

Not exact matches

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

Here we should take a leaf from Barcelona's book and observe how they patiently pass the ball, probe the defence and waiting for space to occur as a result of frustration.

This year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the team behind NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, a space telescope that launched in 2001 to map the cosmic microwave background — the earliest, oldest light we can detect from the universe's infancy.

Barring the rare space probe launched from Earth, any massive object with enough speed to leave the solar system likely originated beyond its boundaries, too, because such speeds are difficult to build up solely through natural gravitational encounters with our sun and its planets.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the international Cassini probe, and found that the interactions between Titan's atmosphere, and the solar magnetic field and radiation, create a wind of hydrocarbons and nitriles being blown away from its polar regions into space.

«Interestingly enough, the scientist who is lead primary investigator for the X-ray spectrometer for the space probe, they call it the PIXL, was his first graduate student from Macquarie University, before his KU times.

While we humans have only set foot on the planet we sprang from and one solitary moon, we've constructed probes, orbiters, and rovers to saunter out into space and send back their reports.

Measurements of the afterglow from the Big Bang by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission yield predictions for the Hubble constant that are 5 percent and 9 percent smaller, respectively.

Two NASA space probes have visited Mercury, Mariner 10 in 1974 and 1975, and MESSENGER, which orbited the planet from 2011 until a deliberate crash landing in 2015.

Her research concentration is in marine geophysics, where she has used a variety of remote sensing techniques from ships and space to probe the dynamics of the mantle and overlying plates far from plate boundaries on geologic time scales.

The team combined these UltraVISTA observations with those from the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, which probes the cosmos at even longer, mid-infrared wavelengths [1].

This story follows the trek of a space rock from its discovery in an ice field to a lab, where researchers probe the rock's origins (perhaps some asteroid or the moon) and then send bits of the meteorite to a library.

Earlier this month another interplanetary explorer caught a striking glimpse of Earth, this one captured as the spacecraft, a European probe called Rosetta, approached our planet from deep space.

Nearly three years ago, NASA's oft - canceled $ 750 million Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission finally shot into space with one goal — to quantify Einstein's predictions from Earth's orbit.

Finally it showed that our solar system is larger than previously thought: when the mission ended, with the probe 6.2 billion miles from Earth, it was still detecting solar - wind particles, indicating that it had not yet crossed the heliopause — the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the comet on Wednesday, 12 November, has not moved from its landing spot and so its solar panels are not getting enough sunlight.

The Hubble Space Telescope probed the quasars» light for information on the speed of the gas and whether the gas is moving toward or away from Earth.

And so Cassini knew Saturn as intimately as anyone from his era, establishing sufficient Saturnian credentials to earn the honor of having a space probe named for him.

Hints that the stuff might surround Earth come from observations of space probes, several of which changed their speeds in unexpected ways as they flew past Earth.

From a hardware perspective, the Van Allen Probes» most significant challenge was to operate and perform measurements in the severe charged particle environment of the radiation belts, a region of space most spacecraft avoid.

In a quest to better predict space weather, the Dartmouth researchers study the radiation belts from above and below in complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain down.

The radiation belts are two donut - shaped regions of highly energetic particles trapped in the Earth's magnetic field — the inner, located just above our atmosphere and extending 4,000 miles into space; and the outer, from 8,000 to 26,000 miles out — and are named for their discoverer (as are the probes), the late James A. Van Allen of the University of Iowa.

The new Vesta photos from the Dawn probe, which NASA unveiled today (Aug. 1), include the spacecraft's first full - frame view of the entire asteroid and should help astronomers understand how the space rock formed in the early solar system, researchers said.

Michael A'Hearn, my astronomy adviser, told me he was content to add a tiny bit of knowledge to the world — prophetic words from the future team leader of Deep Impact, the space probe that blasted a hole in comet Tempel 1 35 years later.

New images from the Cassini space probe show what astronomers are calling «a rubble - pile moon.»

There, the microscopically small grains of rock from the core are catapulted along with ice particles into space, where they were measured by the instruments on the Cassini space probe,» explained the Heidelberg planetary scientist.

Since then, scientists have eagerly anticipated the probes» departure from the heliosphere, the bubble of particles that encircles the sun and planets, and their entry into the unexplored space between stars.

And wild the encounter will be, as the probe gathers bits of comet material — the first sample from deep space — and then fires its engine to head back toward Earth.

Data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), launched in 2001, bolstered a key prediction of inflation, that the universe's structure was seeded by quantum fluctuations in space - time.

Since the geysers are ejecting material from the lake up into space, a probe could simply take a few passes through the plumes, sweep up samples and fly them back home for study in terrestrial labs.

Intriguingly, the results of their analysis appear to be inconsistent with deductions from the results of the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, the leading space mission probing the fundamental properties of the UnivSpace Agency's Planck satellite, the leading space mission probing the fundamental properties of the Univspace mission probing the fundamental properties of the Universe.

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues answer the question of why NASA's Voyager 1, when it became the first probe to enter interstellar space in mid-2012, observed a magnetic field that was inconsistent with that derived from other spacecraft observations.

New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that last night it received a signal from the stricken Mars probe Phobos - Grunt.

These include building a laser far larger than any we have today, developing techniques to use it as both propulsion and communication for the spacecraft, and protecting a tiny probe from the hostile environment of interstellar space.

ONE HUNDRED years from now, a space probe the size of an ice hockey puck will coast silently past an insignificant star system in a remote corner of the Milky Way galaxy.

Last September, an Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with a 4,650 - pound space probe in its nose known as the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer — or just OSIRIS - REx.

There is now a companion to Voyager 1's famous snap looking at our planet from the depths of space: a radar image of the probe taken from Earth, 11.5 billion kilometres away.

The surface of Europa is derived from a global surface map generated from combined NASA Voyager and Galileo space probe observations.

Now a space image - processing enthusiast from Tennessee, in the US, believes he's made a «pre-discovery» of those plumes in archive image data from the Voyager 1 probe, which raced past the Saturn system in 1980.

In 1980 and 1981 NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 space probes passed for the first time over the planet Saturn, located 1,500 million km from the Sun.

Locking on also gives you a wonderful way of experiencing the missions of space probes launched from Earth.

Now Ted Stryk, a space image - processing enthusiast from Tennessee, believes he has made a «pre-discovery» of those plumes in archive image data from the Voyager 1 probe, which raced past the Saturn system in 1980.

In the space of just four minutes, the probe slowed from an entry speed of 170 000 kilometres an hour to just 400 km / h, decelerating at up to 250 g and turning into a fireball more than twice the temperature of the Sun's surface.

The researchers are looking forward to testing their predictions with real data from Jupiter, and they won't have to wait long: NASA's Juno space probe is orbiting Jupiter right now, collecting data about its atmosphere, magnetic field and interior.