Sentences with phrase «human explorers»

Another school of thought is that even if these chambers did not house extra-terrestrial lifeforms, they would still be immensely helpful to future human explorers on the planet's surface.

Orion will use an advanced crew capsule design utilizing state of the art technology and is a key element of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and will succeed the Space Shuttle in transporting a new generation of human explorers to and from the International Space Station, the Moon and eventually to Mars and beyond.

EVERETT, Wash. — For 13 months, Engineering Club students at Washington State University Everett have spent countless hours designing, building, testing and rebuilding a Mars rover meant to be able to work alongside human explorers on the surface of the Red Planet.

The discovery bolsters the case for significant amounts of water at the moon's poles, a potential resource for human explorers.

Safely sending human explorers to and from Mars will be the challenge of a generation.

And if human explorers ever establish a base on Mars, they will have something very earthly to contend with — the weather.

But sending down human explorers instead of using robot submersibles brings pitfalls and risks.

While human explorers remain stubbornly stuck in Earth orbit, robotic space probes are preparing for the next great age of exploration: drilling, rolling, sailing, and prospecting where nobody has gone before.

It is a place human explorers will not visit in the foreseeable future, although the data on the flux of cosmic rays (energetic particles from deep space) into the solar system will allow engineers to better gauge the risk to both spacecraft and humans during extended space voyages.

Golden Spike, helmed by former NASA officials, wants to return human explorers to the lunar surface — for a price

The authors think that the extinction of Synemporion keana may have been a direct or indirect result of human colonization of the islands and the invasive non-native species that accompanied human explorers and settlers.

After all, landing the Yutu robotic rover, aka Jade Rabbit, on Earth's closest neighbour was a feat human explorers had bagged many decades before.

Here are some ways human explorers to the Red Planet could die, including the problem of space radiation.

NASA and the USGS have used MRO instruments to analyze the vertical structure and thickness of buried ice sheets, which preserve a detailed record of the Red Planet's past and could provide future human explorers with an easily - accessible water supply.

The same proximity to Mars that will one day doom Phobos makes it an extremely attractive staging post for human explorers.

It will be attached to the belly pan of the Mars 2020 rover, a wheeled robot that aims to determine the habitability of the Martian environment, search for signs of ancient life, and assess natural resources and hazards for future human explorers.

Controlling a group of human explorers, you and your team are charged with the responsibility of leading humanity into battle against a new and growing threat that could lead to the extinction of the dwindling human race.

In addition to providing major scientific discoveries, such a mission might well give NASA the boost it needs to send human explorers to the Red Planet.

During the course of two 12 week missions, the crew will conduct a sustained program of geological, paleontological and micro-biological field exploration while operating under many of the same constraints that human explorers on the Red Planet would face.

In short the human explorer recognises that the things we observe are «contingent», they are not necessary of themselves.

Those human explorers left Africa about 50,000 to 72,000 years ago, mixed with Neandertals and spread across the world, researchers report online September 21 in Nature.

He notes that human explorers could search for resources such as water.

The SKGs are the identified areas that pose significant risks or limit technology options available to future human explorers.

Yet scientists still don't have enough data to pick the ideal destinations for tomorrow's robotic or human explorers.

Remote sensing suggests that there are even younger and even more diverse basalts on the Moon, waiting for future robotic or human explorers to investigate, Jolliff said.

This prologue details the adventures of a human explorer, who on a voyage to «Darkest Peru» encounters a family of bears who talk.

Structured in two parts, the first portion of the story centers around the young ape boy's struggle to understand his differences from his family, while the second portion complicates that struggle with the introduction of an older Tarzan to a father - daughter team of human explorers and their ruthless protector, Clayton.