Sentences with phrase «in orbit around the moon»

NASA's Deep Space Gateway would serve as an international hub in orbit around the Moon; available to partner agencies from around the world as well as commercial ventures active in cislunar space.

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.

A group of astronauts may spend a year in orbit around the moon in the late 2020s as part of NASA's plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, agency officials said today (May 9).

Anyway, the analyses I happen to be most interested in are space - based: the potential for creating a self - growing factory complex on and in orbit around the Moon, capable of creating an exponentially growing supply of space - based power collectors and transmitters.

Not exact matches

Also known as a perigean full moon or perigee syzygy, a supermoon happens when the moon is full at its closest point in its not - quite - circular orbit around Earth.

In the 1600s, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed through a telescope the moons orbiting Jupiter — clear evidence against the idea that the heavenly bodies all revolve around the earth.

Invisible unicorns in orbit around one of jupiter's moons.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

Artist's interpretation of a hypothetical moon in orbit around a planet found in a tight - knit triple - star system.

This crystal ball displays all eight planets (sorry, Pluto) with their moons in orbits around the Sun.

The moon's tilted orbit intersects our orbit around the sun only twice in each revolution at points called nodes.

It covers the moon's leading hemisphere — the side that faces forward as it moves in its orbit — which suggests that the black material has been swept up from space as the moon moves around Saturn.

Since neither the Earth's rotation around its axis, nor the direction of its axis, nor the Moon's orbit are perfectly regular, their combined effect on motion in the core is unstable and can cause fluctuations in the geodynamo.

The spacecraft entered its science orbit around the moon's equator on Nov. 20, and in March 2014, LADEE extended its mission operations following a highly successful 100 - day primary science phase.

People would see a magnet move a piece of metal, or a moon trapped in orbit around a planet, or a man in a restaurant levitate a saltshaker just by looking at it, and they would wonder how it was possible.

The moon spends some time in two different environments; for most of its orbit around the Earth, the natural satellite is exposed to the solar wind and picks up ions from that.

Gravity is also responsible for keeping the earth and the other planets in their orbits around the sun, the moon in its orbit around the earth, for the tides, and for various other natural phenomena that we observe.

It's been a marathon performance: 20 years in space, more than 200 orbits around Saturn, and hundreds of thousands of images of the giant planet, its splashy rings and its many moons.

Its moon Charon, discovered in 1978, is almost as big as Pluto itself and so massive that the two bodies orbit around each other.

Europa Clipper should launch in the early 2020s, and when it arrives in orbit around Jupiter it will repeatedly swoop over the moon, picking up valuable magnetic and gravitational information about its structure.

Chandrayaan 1 entered into an elliptical orbit around the moon on Saturday, 17 days after blasting off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.

There is a tendency to think that the solar system is a simple place, to assume that the planets rotate easily around the sun, the moons around the planets, and that comets zing in and out in curvaceous orbits.

The Indian space probe Chandrayaan 1 adjusted its orbit around the moon in one of its final maneuvers before releasing a lunar impactor.

During a busy first year in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft got its first close - up look at the ringed planet's sixth - largest moon, Enceladus — and wowed scientists in the process.

Unlike every other major satellite of every other planet in our solar system, our moon ignores the axis of its parent planet and instead circles in nearly the same plane that Earth and the other planets orbit around the sun, offset by slightly over five degrees.

The moon is a bonanza for scientists, Kring says, because it offers crucial insights for understanding the origins and evolution of Earth and other planets: how they formed from the accretion and differentiation of smaller bodies; how they were bombarded by impacts early in their histories; and even how some of them migrated in their orbits around the sun.

Forty years ago, in December of the troubled year of 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders piloted the Apollo 8 spacecraft into orbit around the moon, the first humans ever to circle any globe but our own.

Entering orbit around the ringed world, the spacecraft will drop a probe into the atmosphere of Titan, a Mercury - size moon cloaked in an opaque organic haze and possibly covered with hydrocarbon seas.

After collecting a multi-ton boulder from the asteroid, the robotic spacecraft will slowly redirect the boulder to an orbit around the moon, using the moon's gravity for an assist, where NASA plans to conduct a series of proving ground missions in the 2020s.

They eliminated those with orbital radii less than one tenth that of Earth's, because at that distance moon systems might not remain in stable orbits around their planets on billion - year timescales.

A team has now confirmed the detection of 11 new moons in orbit around the planet.

Through the newly invented telescope Galileo had seen many things that couldn't be explained by the dominant cosmology of the time, rooted in the idea that all things revolved around Earth: things like moons crossing the face of Jupiter, or the changing phases of Venus as sunlight caught it at different angles — an impossibility if Venus's orbit encircled Earth.

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, in orbit around Jupiter, harbors an underground ocean containing more water than all the oceans on Earth.

You know, for instance around Earth, you can think of gravity as forming a kind of a well around Earth, which causes the things that pass near Earth, the moon I would say, which is orbiting on its path, to stay within the vicinity because it falls into that gravity well, metaphorically speaking; and in likewise the same way this astronaut that is fictitiously described by our good mathematics professor takes a journey through curved spacetime.

ESA's probe would settle into orbit around Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system and the only one known to make its own magnetic field.

Pan orbits Saturn in a gap in the planet's rings and pulls material from them, so the ridge around it likely started accumulating soon after the moon formed, researchers say.

To test these new technologies, the agency is planning a mission to identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a stable orbit around the moon in the 2020s, which astronauts will visit.

It outdistanced the moon in nine hours, reached the orbit of Mars in 11 weeks and swung around Jupiter in February 2007.

It travels around Pluto in a 95,000 - kilometre - wide orbit in the same plane as the other moons in the dwarf planet's entourage — Charon, a 1200 - kilometre - wide beast of a moon, Nix, Hydra and the recently discovered P4.

Piloting the Apollo 11 command module through its lonely orbits around the dark side of the Moon was his second mission in space.

He notes polls from the era showing people saying the U.S. government should «do more» in space peaked in late 1968, right around the time the moon - orbiting mission flew.

[1] When Europa orbits around Jupiter, the moon experiences varying tidal forces at different points in its orbit.

Five years after Pluto was stripped of its planet status, astronomers have discovered yet another moon in orbit around it, bringing its entourage to four.

Now, new research in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that an ancient collision could have sent a ring of debris containing at least 100 small moons into orbit around the Red Planet, which eventually coalesced into Phobos and Deimos — Mars's two current moons.

Titan's eccentric orbit around Saturn generates tides that flex the moon's surface and create tidal heating, which could cause variations to develop in the thickness of the ice shell, Hemingway said.

But certain orbital safe havens known as Trojan points, leading or trailing the moon in its orbit around Earth, would allow a moonlet to hang around for tens of millions of years before meeting its end.

Another involved making additional flybys of Titan to not only study that moon's bizarre landscape in more detail, but to also use the gravity of Titan to change Cassini's course and fly around the planet at different orbits using less fuel.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004, studying the giant planet, its rings and its moons.

This image, taken on April 7, 2013, shows the side of Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across) that faces backward in the moon's orbit around Saturn.

In the case of Europa, because of its orbit around Jupiter the magnetic lines from the massive planet's magnetosphere were passing right through the moon.