Sentences with phrase «image of the planet»

A photographer travels the world to capture stunning images of our planet's most precious resource and man's relationship to it.

The first attempts to do that relied on images of the planet at night.

How realistic are images of planets around other stars — and should they be?

We will soon see fresh, beautiful new images of our planet every day.

Ever since, it has been returning stunning images of the planet's surface along with evidence of water and carbon dioxide ice.

But they also send back striking, totally disarming images of planet Earth.

And then I would hand off the rest of the money to NASA, which would need about one - thousandth of that to build satellites that could go out and take images of the planets to see if they really are habitable.

These are the first images of the planet taken as the Cassini spacecraft made the first of its 22 planned dives between its rings.

The horrific image of a planet with too much life is in direct contrast to the Jewish and Christian faiths, which believe that God enjoins man to «be fruitful and multiply.»

«The first high - resolution images of the planet will be taken on August 27 when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter.»

Cassini has been in continual orbit around Saturn since 2004, capturing images of the planet in varying lighting conditions and from a wide range of angles.

The technology uses radio waves to produce 3 - D scans of passengers» bodies, the same way radar captures images of planets» surfaces.

Explanation: As the New Horizons spacecraft sweeps through the Solar System, it is taking breathtaking images of the planets.

Swirling clouds blanket Jupiter's northern and southern poles in the first closeup images of the planet taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet - lovers have been hooked on auroras on other planets.

On March 29, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft began sending its first close - up images of planet Mercury from orbit (MESSENGER news release and feature release; and Kenneth Chang, New York Times, March 30, 2011).

From this unique vantage point, DSCOVR will capture and beam back to Earth a continuous stream of images of our planet similar to the historic image taken on December 7, 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission — which remains the only such image we have more than 42 years later.

With ALMA producing remarkable results, astronomers are successfully revealing detailed images of planet forming regions that were never possible before.

This gear allows the probe to analyze surface minerals, hunt for underground water, monitor Martian weather and take spectacular up - close images of the planet's surface.

Further boosting the historical resonances, the New Horizons Pluto flyby occurred 50 years to the day after Mariner 4 sailed past Mars and returned the first images of a planet from deep space.

The beam of 8.5 - GHz microwaves sent from Goldstone bounced off Mercury and was collected at the VLA to produce a radar image of the planet.

Each time NASA's Juno spacecraft flies over Jupiter's clouds — roughly once every 53.5 days — it takes some of t he most incredible and unprecedented images of the planet ever seen.

The person who did think of the Earth Flag, a simple image of our planet on a blue background, was John McConnell, a charismatic peace activist who frequented the halls of the United Nations from the 1950s through the 1990s.

Vibrant images of our planet are common now, but it was only 70 years ago when we first caught a glimpse of Earth from a height of more than 100 miles.

In stark contrast to the colorful images of the planet, the astronauts are filmed alone, their faces half in shadow against a black background as they tell stories that loosely connect to the themes.

So could the most direct kind of evidence: an actual image of Planet Nine, which other surveys hope to capture.

Astronomers craving their first image of a planet beyond our solar system now have fresh targets to explore: newly identified siblings of Beta Pictoris, the most famous dust - shrouded star in the sky.

Equipped with a coronagraph — a device that blocks starlight similar to the way a thumb held in front of your eye can blot out the sun — the GMT or the E — ELT could strip out the glare of Proxima Centauri to gather the faint photons from Proxima b, forming a dotlike image of the planet for all to see.

«It would be foolish not to make use of these existing instruments, because together they probably offer the fastest and most cost - effective way to get images of this planet.»

The end result would be a clean, clear image of the planet that SPHERE alone could never produce.

Within two hours Phoenix had transmitted the first surface images of the planet's polar terrain: a level plain marked with regular octagonal mounds and furrows, evidence of freeze - thaw cycles in a substance that Phoenix's instruments would prove to be frozen water.

Achieving a feat that seemed impossible not so long ago, a team of scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope captured the first visible - light image of a planet orbiting another star (above and inset).

Called «Touch the Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronomy,» the 64 - page book presents color images of planets, nebulae, stars, and galaxies.

A new study has proposed utilising the observing capabilities of Hubble together with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, for capturing stereoscopic 3 - D images of planets in the Solar System.

TMT can observe these waves by taking direct optical images of the planets.

The Voyager space probes sent back some amazing images of the planets in the outer Solar System, and they're still talking to Earth every day via Australia's tracking station.

Having gone through this big change, the research of planet formation has been a «hot spot» in astronomy and many astronomers are paying great attention to the ALMA image of the planet forming disk.

From its opening images of our planet illuminated by technology, to a remarkable long take that takes the viewer through the inner operation and impact of computer processing, Blackhat hooks the viewer both emotionally and intellectually.

The Sony event began with piano music and swirling blue images of Playstation iconography, gently segueing into a 4 - minute trailer for Destiny - ironically, a shooter - featuring a Mars landing, voice - of - god backstory (velvety VO by Lance Reddick Bill Nighy, thanks to commenter Jason for correction), and images of planets underscored by a Halo-esque vocal chorus.

As Mr. Dobson philosophizes in voice - over, we see stunningly beautiful images of the planets, stars and galaxies he describes.

To validate candidate planets identified by K2, the researchers obtained high - resolution images of the planet - hosting stars from Keck Observatory's near infrared camera (NIRC2), the Gemini and Large Binocular Telescope (among others) as well as high - resolution optical spectroscopy using Keck Observatory's high resolution spectrograph (HIRES) instrument and the AUtomated Planet Finder.

Previous missions selected by New Frontiers include New Horizons, a nuclear - powered probe that flew by Pluto in 2015 and is now going deeper into the Kuiper Belt; OSIRIS - REx, a robot that's flying out to meet asteroid Bennu and bring a sample of it back to Earth; and the Juno mission, which is looping around Jupiter, recording unprecedented data and breathtaking images of the planet.

ZOOM IN Juno made a handful of science flybys this year, collecting data on Jupiter's atmosphere and capturing stunning closeup images of the planet (southern hemisphere shown here).

NASA provides us with some of the most spectacular images of our planet.

The Soviet Union and United States both had several failures with their earliest Mars probes, but on July 14, 1965 NASA's Mariner 4 sent home the first close - up images of another planet.

NASA's Cassini probe has sent dazzling up - close images of the planet's icy rings with new details.

Since 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been circling Saturn and sending back to Earth stunning images of the planet's rings and moons.

The Juno spacecraft made its eighth fly - by of Jupiter on Oct. 24, captured images of the planet, and then sent that data back to NASA on Oct. 31.

The team that made the discovery, led by Keele University's Dr John Southworth, used the 2.2 m ESO / MPG telescope in Chile to take images of the planet's host star GJ 1132.

Bill Anders captured the first image of our planet that changed the world on Dec. 24, 1968.