Sentences with phrase «half lunar surface»

Based on the calculations we've done, we can actually do lunar surface missions, with no propellant production on the surface of the moon.

Bouncing along the lunar surface in a four - wheeled rover, he and Charlie Duke collected 200 pounds of rock specimens.

They've set a goal of sending their first robotic lander to the lunar surface by the end of 2017.

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

Unlike the Earth, these resources are largely on or near the lunar surface, relatively accessible.

The agency was looking for domestic vendors interested in, or capable of, developing commercial payload landing services for future missions to the lunar surface.

A market for lunar services is already emerging and while some companies are focused on developing longer - term plans to return humans to the lunar surface, there are also many companies with nearer - term needs for lunar services.

Less than seven years after Kennedy's speech, on July 20th 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 landed the Eagle module on the lunar surface — and humankind took its famed giant leap forward into interplanetary exploration.

This shift in motivations also denotes a significant change in the end goals of modern space companies and agencies alike, especially as concerns the Moon: Rather than visiting our celestial neighbor to prove we have the ability, we're now going back to the Moon with the intention of maintaining an extended presence of the lunar surface.

Additionally, the $ 30 million Google Lunar X Prize has initiated competition to reach the lunar surface by 2015, and like many competitions before, is spurring the creation of an entirely new industry, this time for lunar services.

While a commercial Moon delivery service may seem like a novelty to some, Astrobotic CEO Jim Thornton knows that such a service fills a very real need in the marketplace — in fact, as Thornton explains to Chad Anderson in this week's Space Angels podcast, Astrobotic has over a hundred deals in their pipeline, all awaiting rides to the lunar surface.

Additionally, at least two government agencies in addition to NASA are developing lunar landers with aspirations of reaching the lunar surface.

Moon Express has a ways to go before it can reach the lunar surface, which it hopes to do next year.

The moment the prophecy was fulfilled is confirmed by the hour of departure of the lunar module, which left the lunar surface at 17:54:1 (Universal Time) or 1:54:1 (EDT) and as you have seen above, verse [54:1] is the verse that deals with the prophecy.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully clear images of the lunar surface, produced an image that was wild and jittery.

That's potentially problematic, because planetary scientists use the number of small impact craters to estimate the age of the lunar surface.

The Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which supplied the data for the research, measures light reflected off of the lunar surface.

The team made the observations using LRO's LEND instrument, which detects hydrogen by counting the number of subatomic particles called neutrons flying off the lunar surface.

«Our analysis shows that the galactic cosmic rays, which are charged particles energetic enough to penetrate below the lunar surface, can dissociate the water, H2O, into H2 through various potential pathways.»

«What this is telling us,» she says, «is these large basins modified the entire lunar surface at some point.»

This 3D - printed moon lamp is ultra-realistic, showing the beautiful details of the lunar surface in all their glory.

The third Wide Angle Camera captures moderate resolution images using filters to provide information about the properties and color of the lunar surface.

The neutrons are produced when the lunar surface gets bombarded by cosmic rays.

This experiment was just one part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the only comprehensive set of moon - based studies humans have ever conducted.

If so, it would substantiate existing evidence of a very active production and cycling of hydrogen on the lunar surface, according to McClanahan.

What makes it so special is that it's 3D printed, resulting in incredible high - resolution details on the lunar surface.

After these molecules arrive at the moon, it is thought they get energized by sunlight and then bounce across the lunar surface; and they get stuck, at least temporarily, in colder and more shadowy areas.

The hydrogen - bearing material is volatile (easily vaporized), and may be in the form of water molecules (two hydrogen atoms bound to an oxygen atom) or hydroxyl molecules (an oxygen bound to a hydrogen) that are loosely bound to the lunar surface.

To win it, they'll have to transport a rover to the moon and send back a series of transmissions, the most difficult of which will be high - definition video of the lunar surface.

By the time the Apollo 11 mission was on the launchpad for its historic trip to the lunar surface in July 1969, we may have figured out how to send a man to the moon, but we hadn't yet figured out how to send good food with him.

Associate research professor David Wettergreen demonstrates how Scarab will squat its 550 - pound body close to the lunar surface and employ a Canadian - made drill to pierce the regolith (moon rock) and analyze the soil below it.

Alternatively, the water at Cabeus may have been created when hydrogen atoms carried by the solar wind slammed into oxygen - rich materials in the lunar surface.

And the head of the Russian space agency last year announced plans to send cosmonauts to the lunar surface around 2025.

They concluded that nearly all the water in the first 200 nanometres of the lunar surface comes from the solar wind.

Earth - based observers had trouble seeing the ejecta, because the densest part of the debris cloud flew low across the lunar surface and was hidden by a high ridge.

Reflectors planted on the lunar surface may provide the first cracks in Einstein's theory of gravity, says Stuart Clark

One solution is to build a bin on the back of the bulldozer and fill it with regolith to make a counterweight before serious digging begins.Another is to outfit the bulldozer with augers, so it can screw itself into the lunar surface.

They've found that one of the biggest challenges to lunar settlement — as vexing as new rocketry or radiation — is how to live with regolith that covers virtually the entire lunar surface from a depth of7 feet to perhaps 100 feet or more.

In the airless lunar environment, the objects fell together and struck the lunar surface simultaneously, mirroring Galileo's experiment.

Eventually, commercial moon landers may help carry a diverse library of cultural and biological records to the lunar surface, where they would be preserved in case Earth suffers a pandemic plague, nuclear holocaust or lethal asteroid strike.

Still, some experts believe the cost of extracting and refining it on the lunar surface could be even greater.

Although LRO would be forced to shut down its instruments for this eclipse, Petro said other lunar eclipses are a great opportunity for the mission to study how the lunar surface cools during these events, giving insight into the materials making up the surface.

The next step will be to sample the lunar surface, finding ways to build with it or extract resources (especially water) from it.

The Torah on the Moon project, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, has been courting private firms to deliver a handwritten Jewish scroll, the Sefer Torah, to the lunar surface.

Gary Martin, NASA's future technology architect, believes it is important to return to the moon anyway, because the lunar surface is the perfect place to test the technologies and procedures needed for subsequent visits to Mars and beyond.

Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has been investigating the lunar surface since 2009.

Researchers need more detailed observations to better understand how water moves around on the lunar surface and into the atmosphere.

NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini missions and the Indian probe Chandrayaan - 1 last year reported detecting a water film only a few molecules thick over large parts of the lunar surface.

He adds: «It's not inconceivable that there are fossil organisms in Earth meteorites on the lunar surface.»