Sentences with phrase «in lunar gravity»

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

«It was at the time when we landed that we were there, we were in the lunar environment, the lunar gravity.

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 atmoGravity 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 atmogravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

Mexico's Chicxulub crater, named for a tiny town nearby, looks strikingly similar to Schrödinger crater on the moon's far side, shown here in a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter gravity map.

Just as important, the team concluded that once TESS reached its P / 2 orbit — through a series of maneuvers also involving a lunar flyby to gain momentum from the Moon's gravity — it would remain stably in that orbit for several decades.

It had been nearly 45 years since Schmitt bunny - hopped his way across the low - gravity lunar landscape in December 1972 during the final Apollo mission; half of Apollo's 12 moon walkers have now died.

A NASA lunar mission scheduled to launch in September, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), may help settle the question of whether the moon once had a smaller companion.

«When our team began engineering for the Lunar Rover, there were so many unknowns, including varied terrain, extreme temperatures and the effect of reduced gravity,» Ferenc Pavlics, the project's now retired chief engineer, in a release.

[11] In April 2011, Astrobotic received a $ 599,000 two - year contract to develop a scalable gravity offload device for testing rover mobility in simulated lunar gravity under NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTRIn April 2011, Astrobotic received a $ 599,000 two - year contract to develop a scalable gravity offload device for testing rover mobility in simulated lunar gravity under NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTRin simulated lunar gravity under NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR).

Playing it is like doing your taxes on the moon — both in that numbers bombard you constantly while you float and spin helplessly in zero gravity, and in the slightly pathetic feeling that you've come to some fantastic, far - off place to sit in the pod and think about your life back on earth while the rest of the astronauts take a spin on the lunar rover.

Paper Racing: racers rivals - is extreme racing game, in which you can climb on hill as motorbike rider, defied gravity in space adventures on tracks drawn on paper by other players.Features: - 6 vehicles to play: bigfoot aka monster truck, motorbike, moped, mini ATV, lunar rover and formula 1 sport car; - race on over...

Drawing both strands together is a new selection of Gravity Styles - Jupiter Style that makes you very weighty and Lunar Style that makes you very light, both of which flare your traversal and your offensive abilities in different directions.

The Horizon Lunar Colony Map will be added to the game soon, in addition to the new low gravity Arcade mode and Custom Game option.

The Lunar Style's gravity vortex is executed by pressing and holding the circle (which will probably be X in the west) button, and you can generate a more powerful one by consuming the SP gauge.

More importantly, once you've gotten the hang of spring - jumping (both vertically and horizontally) in Lunar mode, you can use that to zip around the battlefield more quickly than you can by shifting gravity.