Sentences with phrase «golden age of exploration»

Visit the City's Famous Churches Porto has no shortage of churches, many of which date back to Portugal's golden age of exploration.

John Grunsfeld, head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, opted for the latter, telling the celebrants in Laurel, «Five hundred years from now, we will look back on this as the golden age of exploration.»

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«It's frustrating because it should be a golden age of planetary exploration because there's so much data that's coming in, but what's missing is the commitment of funding to interpret the measurements,» says Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a science team member on the twin Mars rover mission.

The W. M. Keck Observatory is very grateful for the generosity of individuals, corporations and foundations that recognize the value of our science and leadership in this golden age of astronomical exploration.

Fifty years into the Space Age, we are still in the golden age of robotic exploration of our solar system, when each mission is unprecedented in some way as we push the limits of what is possibAge, we are still in the golden age of robotic exploration of our solar system, when each mission is unprecedented in some way as we push the limits of what is possibage of robotic exploration of our solar system, when each mission is unprecedented in some way as we push the limits of what is possible.

You'll also hear Emily Lakdawalla on why this is the golden age of space exploration.

The game by The Vanir Project mixes a graphic style reminiscent of the golden age of arcade games, a storyline suitable to all public, with plot twists only adults will understand, and platforms, exploration and «Metroidvania» mechanics.

Now, there's nothing wrong it; the premise that the worlds we get to visit are ancient ruins of a future humanity's Golden Age of galactic exploration is one that is fascinating to me as a fan of Science Fiction.

«Creating art that is honed from a conceptualism that pays homage to minimalist practices of the 1970s and reinvents identity - based explorations of the 1980s, Simmons came of age aesthetically in the 1990s and his work represents the fluid hybridity of that time,» wrote Thelma Golden in the exhibition catalogue Gary Simmons (2002).