Sentences with phrase «human explorers on»

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.

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.

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According to Collins, «Beyond its importance for astronauts and future space explorers, this research also could lead to novel methods for preventing and treating human disease on Earth.

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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.

Other big news included the rise and fall of a claimed detection of gravitational waves, new findings about the history of early humans from analyses of DNA and the spectacular landing of the Rosetta spacecraft's robotic explorer Philae on comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

For now, Stone and other scientists are excited about the robotic explorer's accomplishment on August 25, 2012 — the same date, coincidentally, that the world lost its most famous human space explorer, Neil Armstrong.

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.

On a 496 - kilometer road trip along the Northwest Passage, crew members pretended they were explorers on a long haul across the Red Planet to test what to expect if and when humans go to MarOn a 496 - kilometer road trip along the Northwest Passage, crew members pretended they were explorers on a long haul across the Red Planet to test what to expect if and when humans go to Maron a long haul across the Red Planet to test what to expect if and when humans go to Mars.

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.

One hundred years ago this week, on a fine summer afternoon, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and four travel - weary companions plunged a bright flag atop a spindly pole into the Antarctic ice, marking their claim as the first humans to set foot at the bottom of the world.

Synopsis: With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy t...

With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.

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

A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Lead by mission director Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) and monitored by Weyland's android David (Michael Fassbender), the team of explorers find a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth and embark on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe where they fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

He serves on Hyperion, the ship carrying human scientists and explorers to the Andromeda galaxy.

Described by William Burroughs as «an inner space explorer», his work continues to resonate for its emphasis on the human voice in its purest form, the «raw primal voice» of humanity.

Climate Explorer's graphs and maps show projected conditions for two possible futures: one in which humans make a moderate attempt to reduce global emissions of heat - trapping gases, and one in which we go on conducting business as usual.

Are we explorers of human depths or more like Siri on your iPhone, just directing you from one place to another?