Sentences with phrase «lap around the sun»

Curiosity wraps up its 687th day on Mars today (June 24), NASA officials said, meaning the 1 - ton robot has completed one lap around the sun on the Red Planet.

For ballistic capture, the spacecraft cruises a bit slower than Mars itself as the planet runs its orbital lap around the sun.

The mission, perhaps the most ambitious one ever undertaken by the European Space Agency, will now join the comet as it begins a lap around the sun, heats up, and releases stores of ice in a cloud of dust and gas.

Ryugu briefly dips inside Earth's orbit on each 1.3 - year lap around the Sun, making it a potentially hazardous asteroid in our celestial neighborhood.

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Morning lovely ladies of Beach Cottage Land, I am here sitting in the Summer Room looking out the window at a gorgeous Australian sky, the sun is shining and there is a little breeze making the leaves flutter, the sea air is wafting around, Barls is on my lap, the bougainvillea tree outside is in full bloom draping over...

But now, an early spring sun gleams off her bow pulpit and dances around its edges as her prow rises and softly falls like the chest of a sleeping beauty while muted waves lap at her water line.