Sentences with phrase «in lunar dust»

However, trace fossils won't always be as easy to identify as footprints in lunar dust.

Yet in November 1969, only months after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became history's first moonwalkers, Conrad left his own tracks in the lunar dust, as commander of the Apollo 12 mission.

Not exact matches

Oh, If only arrows could reach the moon then they could shoot it down and rub lunar dust on their bodies and hit one another in the head with moon rocks.

Now I would say that I was compelled by the Spirit to receive the imposition of the ashes because when the priest touched my forehead and said the words, «Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return,» it seemed as if the disconnected joint in my spirit between the solar and the lunar were popped back into its right place.

While scientists have speculated on the presence of neon in the lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first time.

Artist's concept of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft in orbit above the moon.

Boulders, a crater, moon dust and an overworked computer all stood in the way of humankind's first lunar touchdown

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

The flecks of dust had streaked into a tennis racket — sized collector on board a spacecraft named Stardust, and scientists announced their existence at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March 2013.

NLSI supported the NASA Ames Academy through support of a student in addition to support of their summer project of lunar dust and biological systems interactions.

Ms. Miller completed an internship with the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA researching the spectroscopic and chemical properties of lunar dust.

An artist's illustration for the high - tech laser communications system on NASA's LADEE moon dust probe now in lunar orbit.

LADEE is (the name is short for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer andpronounced «laddie») is an 844 - pound (383 kilograms) spacecraft that launched from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 7 and arrived in orbit around the moon last month.

The dusts are NASA - approved simulants of lunar and Martian dust that are similar to the real thing in composition and particle shape and size.