Sentences with phrase «largest pieces of debris»

The largest pieces of debris are the size of a small car.

In 2009, an accidental collision occurred between an operational communications satellite and a large piece of debris, destroying the satellite.

Attached to a robotic arm, the device could gently grab and secure even large pieces of debris (Science Robotics, 10.1126 / scirobotics.aan4545).

Using telescopes on Earth, space agencies track large pieces of debris orbiting the planet.

Johnson is the scientist in charge of NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office, which keeps track of large pieces of debris and helps spacecraft and satellites avoid dangerous situations.

They have one pair of pincers that are very large to help them pluck larger pieces of debris and food.

Here you control Carter through a third - person perspective, guiding him through urban and rural environments that are usually filled with large pieces of debris or objects that can be used as cover.

They may clear brush and small trees from a site, haul stone away from dig sites, or remove large pieces of debris that would cause delays or hazards.

Not exact matches

There, floating debris — from microscopic particles of plastic to large pieces like ropes and fishing nets — is carried by currents and accumulates.

They counted nearly 300 Japanese species colonizing the debris, including roughly 80 different species on the largest piece, a 170 - ton section of dock.

The top layer is a white filter pad to provide mechanical filtration, pulling out the larger pieces of dirt and debris.

Working with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, they are currently finishing up a detailed study of the effects of a particularly large piece of marine debris — a shipping container that fell off a ship in 2004.

The United States now tracks more than 10,000 pieces of debris four inches wide or larger, but tens of millions of smaller fragments are also whizzing through space at speeds that can exceed 17,000 miles per hour, says Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris Prdebris four inches wide or larger, but tens of millions of smaller fragments are also whizzing through space at speeds that can exceed 17,000 miles per hour, says Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris PrDebris Program.

17,300 The estimated number of pieces of debris larger than 10 centimeters in diameter that are being tracked by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network.

There are more than 21,000 pieces of orbital debris larger than 3.9 inches (10 centimeters) in Earth's orbit.

Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans.

Given that Tau Ceti does not appear to be a young star, the ring of dusty debris is believed to be produced by collisions between larger comets and asteroids that break them down into smaller and smaller pieces, and Tau Ceti's disk is similar in size and shape to the disk of comets and asteroids that orbits the Sun, Sol.

«The process of making these is so slow and organic — like creating an aftermath or a debris field where you intuit, and sometimes actually make out, the lives of many generations of humans, alongside nonhuman traces, and objects, all laid down under pressure — which take time to make and are filled with that time, pieces of what might have been a larger canvas of handiworks that reference entire lives, whole communities that are brought into the field of the painting, where the painting itself becomes another community,» described Sacks his painting method in a 2014 interview with Natasha Kurchanova published on Studio International.

This exhibition by Toronto artist John McCartney will feature a series of large, robotic sculptures incorporating carved wood, industrial debris, found objects, production line pieces and welded, cast and painted metal.

East Gallery: Sculpture This exhibition by Toronto artist John McCartney will feature a series of large, robotic sculptures incorporating carved wood, industrial debris, found objects, production line pieces and welded, cast and painted metal.

The plastic debris in the study is of the more obvious kind, as the pieces in the stomachs of fish were large enough to be identified.

Quite impressive, though I wouldn't go as far as to compare it with the few Tesla Model S fires (which I put in context here) because the situation is quite different, with only one cell getting relatively low - energy impacts over a small area compared to a whole battery pack getting a high - energy impact from a large piece of metal debris or a brick wall or whatever, and on top of that, in one of the fires the firefights drilled holes in the battery, which made things more spectacular than they otherwise would have been.

The Gossamer Orbit Lowering Device, or GOLD system, uses an ultra-thin balloon (thinner than a plastic sandwich bag), which is inflated with gas to the size of a football field and then attached to large pieces of space debris.

Space agencies are tracking some 7,000 tons of debris, adding up to more than 20,000 pieces larger than 10 centimeters.

A very large pointed piece of debris was right behind my head.