Sentences with phrase «giant moon on»

Hang this illuminated, giant moon on the wall and explore the authentically detailed 3 - D lunar landscape that automatically shows the 12 main phases of the moon.

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The epitome of these missions was when Neil Armstrong took the first ever step on the Moon surface and uttered the infamous phrase, «One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap For Mankind.»

South Korean President Moon Jae - in took office on May 10, pledging to revitalise the economy and crack down on giant conglomerates.

Neil Armstrong had no such doubt; he was certain that when he put his foot down on the moon it was a giant step forward for humankind.

So we proclaimed on the surface of the moon: one small step for man, a giant step for mankind.

And what adult can forget Monday, July 20, 1969, at 10:56 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, the moment when Neil Armstrong placed the first human footprint on the moon - «one giant leap for mankind!»

Neil Armstrong, who took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind as the first human to set foot on the moon, passed away today at the...

(Iced - over oceans on moons of the gas giants are almost our last hope.)

New images from the Huygens probe reveal that Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, has giant sand - dune deserts that bear a striking resemblance to those found here on Earth.

On Saturn's giant moon Titan, the seasons should now be turning, but summer in its southern hemisphere is defying predictions by refusing to end.

Furthermore, Schultz's work suggests fragments from these giants could account for a many of the impacts that occurred during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, which occurred from about 3.8 billion years ago to around 4 billion years, when scientists think most of the craters we see on the Moon and Mercury were formed.

However, earlier studies which proposed that giant planets could possibly eject one another did not consider the effect such violent encounters would have on minor bodies, such as the known moons of the giant planets, and their orbits.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — It's springtime on Titan, Saturn's giant and frigid moon, and the action on its hydrocarbon seas seems to be heating up.

Southwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth - Moon system.

At 3:04 p.m. EDT (12:04 p.m. PDT) on September 11, the spacecraft used a gravitational nudge from Saturn's largest moon to set itself on a collision course with the giant planet's atmosphere on September 15.

«We need to go back to the drawing board and discover more about what giant impacts do, and we also need a better handle on volatile inventories in the moon.»

Perhaps not: a simulation of conditions on Saturn's giant frigid moon shows that some of the key molecular precursors of life as we know it are likely to have formed there.

For an observer stationed on the surface and revolving with it, the bulges would appear as a giant wave, which follows the apparent motion of the moon to the west and has two crests per lunar day.

Olson said the giant impact argument for the formation of the moon is the most prevalent scientific hypothesis on how Earth satellite was formed, but it is still considered unproven because there's been no «smoking gun» evidence.

The Moon's water did not come from comets but was already present on Earth 4.5 billion years ago, when a giant collision sent material from Earth to form the Moon, new research shows.

The discovery also casts doubt on the decades - old theory that the circular Procellarum region is a basin, or giant crater, created when a large asteroid slammed into the moon.

Then researchers could use the detailed seismic picture of the moon's interior to understand better the evolution of a planetary body assembled from the vaporous debris of a giant impact on the still - forming Earth.

The simplest explanation, says Saal: The moon's water was on Earth at the time of the giant impact.

Putting a giant radio telescope on the dark side of the moon will enabled an unparalled «view» of the universe.

It is the site of an extraordinary ecosystem — one that Hand suspects might be replicated on icy moons orbiting distant gas giants.

Several kilometers below the largest dark spot on our satellite's near side, researchers have discovered a giant rectangle thought to be the remnants of a geological plumbing system that spilled lava across the moon about 3.5 billion years ago.

After two more test flights, NASA landed on the Moon on 20 July 1969, where Neil Armstrong took his famous «giant leap for mankind».

The even lower quantities of these volatile elements found on the Moon has long been claimed as evidence that it must have formed following a high - temperature, catastrophic giant impact.

Scientists at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) rejoiced yesterday (21 February) when the word came — two Swedish instruments have been included on the European Space Agency's forthcoming mission to the giant planet Jupiter and its icy moons.

This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's icy moon Dione, with giant Saturn and its rings in the background, just prior to the mission's final close approach to the moon on August 17, 2015.

Margolis will take guests on a storytelling adventure through Cassini's mission — its perilous swings past gas giants, icy rings and moons that carry the precursors for life.

-- to explore the Solar System beyond Mars to understand how giant planets and their moons form and evolve, to search for habitable environments on and within moons (like Enceladus, Europa and Titan), and to examine the farthest bodies in the solar system for clues to the early history of the solar system.

Alternatively, Cassini could have been directed back inward, to explore giant Jupiter and its many moons, rounding out science started on NASA's Galileo mission in 1995.

According to NASA, Cassini, which arrived in the Saturn system in mid-2004, obtained the images during a close flyby of Titan on July 25, when it came as close as 607 miles from the giant moon.

Looking farther, into the outer solar system, Webb's observations will give us a better picture of the seasonal weather and climate on our giant planets and their moons.

Science fiction stories in movies and television set on other worlds frequently present views of spectacular arrangements of moons, looming giant planets and multiple suns of -LSB-...]

That said, the concept of the «habitable zone» may be a bit of a misnomer, as life may be able to emerge outside of this area, such as on moons in orbit around gas giants.

Such fissures are very common on Enceladus, making the moon, which is generally bright white in color, sort of look like a giant cracked eggshell.

The new, younger age obtained for the oldest lunar crust is similar to ages obtained for the oldest terrestrial minerals — zircons from western Australia — suggesting that the oldest crusts on both Earth and Moon formed at approximately the same time, and that this time dates from shortly after the giant impact.

Yet Worth's simulations showed that several thousands of collisions on the gas giants would also take place and as much as 10 collisions for each of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn as well.

She will then focus on recent results her group obtained with regard to extremely large volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io, and giant storms on Uranus using Keck Observatory.

On December 1, 2009, two astronomers submitted a pre-print suggesting that the planet's extreme axial tilt (an obliquity of 97 degrees) may have resulted from the presence of a large moon that has since been ejected from orbit around the ice giant by the pull of another planet during the orbital migration of the giant planets early in the formation of the Solar System.

Rodriguez just pulls stuff out of his subconscious, all these great ideas he's had forever and here's the one film he can finally put all of them into — the giant robots invading the empty Sunday - morning streets of downtown Austin and Grandpa walking on the moon and Alan Cumming instructing little kids on how to use 3 - D glasses and pseudo-mystic video - game lore and — dear god — Sylvester Stallone as a hippie.

After an intriguing prologue that sets up the real reason for the space race — something crashed on the dark side of the moon [but they couldn't use that as a title because of the Pink Floyd album]-- Transformers: Dark of the Moon quickly devolves into an action movie with giant robots, explosions, gunfire, and some rude language from Sam Witwicky's [Shia LaBeouf] parents [played by the ever delightful Julie White and Kevin Dumoon [but they couldn't use that as a title because of the Pink Floyd album]-- Transformers: Dark of the Moon quickly devolves into an action movie with giant robots, explosions, gunfire, and some rude language from Sam Witwicky's [Shia LaBeouf] parents [played by the ever delightful Julie White and Kevin DuMoon quickly devolves into an action movie with giant robots, explosions, gunfire, and some rude language from Sam Witwicky's [Shia LaBeouf] parents [played by the ever delightful Julie White and Kevin Dunn].

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

Exactly what is on the dark side of the moon is of supreme importance to the plot, and pretty soon Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and his latest bee - stung lipped walking coathanger, Carly Spencer (Rosie Huntington - Whitely), are running around a lot whilst giant robots destroy perfectly good architecture.

«The Last Days On Mars» Synopsis: A group of scientists discover evidence of bacterial life on Mars, only to be stranded there What You Need To Know: There's plenty of giant sci - fi epics on the way in 2013, but given the run of the past few years, we're more excited about the potential sleepers out there, and no film holds greater promise to be the next «Moon» than «The Last Days On Mars.&raquOn Mars» Synopsis: A group of scientists discover evidence of bacterial life on Mars, only to be stranded there What You Need To Know: There's plenty of giant sci - fi epics on the way in 2013, but given the run of the past few years, we're more excited about the potential sleepers out there, and no film holds greater promise to be the next «Moon» than «The Last Days On Mars.&raquon Mars, only to be stranded there What You Need To Know: There's plenty of giant sci - fi epics on the way in 2013, but given the run of the past few years, we're more excited about the potential sleepers out there, and no film holds greater promise to be the next «Moon» than «The Last Days On Mars.&raquon the way in 2013, but given the run of the past few years, we're more excited about the potential sleepers out there, and no film holds greater promise to be the next «Moon» than «The Last Days On Mars.&raquOn Mars.»

Speaking of which: in the series's latest bit of tongue - in - cheek revisionist history, it is disclosed that John F. Kennedy fast - tracked the moon landing not to beat the Soviet Union in the space race, but rather to secure a site where a giant Autobot vessel had crash - landed after a big war on Cybertron.

Apparently, there have been Decepticons hiding on the moon, something that was never established earlier, but obvious plotholes and weak storytelling are both glossed over as the last hour turns into a full - on Decepticon invasion as they reduce Chicago to rubble, led by a single - eyed Decepticon named Shockwave that controls a giant robotic centipede.