Sentences with phrase «like jet propulsion»

«Each single bubble works like jet propulsion,» said Sumit Sinha - Ray, Yarin's doctoral student and study co-author.

The results also revealed trends key to understanding and improving applications like jet propulsion, such as an increase in normalized drop diameter and a decrease in droplet population as chamber temperatures increased.

Not exact matches

James, also a physicist, heads his own company, designing high - powered microwave systems for clients like NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Lockheed and Boeing.

«I've certainly been pitching this for 20 years, really from the beginning of BECs, when doing something like this in space seemed crazy,» says Robert Thompson, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and CAL's project scientist.

But the fact that one part of the rings didn't cool as expected allowed us to model what they might be like on the inside,» said Ryuji Morishima of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, who led the study.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

Gary Prezeau at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, wondered what would happen if a stream of dark matter pierced a planet like Earth.

«They look like a line drawn around the edge of a Pringle's potato chip,» says Martin Lo, a mission designer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«Finding brown dwarfs near our sun is like discovering there's a hidden house on your block that you didn't know about,» said astronomer Michael Cushing, a WISE team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of the study on the Y dwarfs.

«Now the consensus seems to be that it is more like a comet,» says Cassini program manager Robert Mitchell of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The genome could also help uncover the genetic basis for other octopus innovations, such as their elaborate prehensile arms with suckers used to sense chemicals in the water as well as feel and grasp; their ability to regenerate their limbs; a propulsion system that allows them to jet around underwater; camera - like eyes that are more like humans than other invertebrates; and the fact that they have three hearts to keep blood pumping across their gills.

«Clouds circulate around the feature like cars on a racetrack,» says Kevin Baines, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

«Titan's northern lakes region is one of the most Earth - like and intriguing in the solar system,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know lakes here change with the seasons, and Cassini's long mission at Saturn gives us the opportunity to watch the seasons change at Titan, too.

We could only rely on predictions, based on our experience with Saturn's other rings, of what we thought this gap between the rings and Saturn would be like,» said Cassini Project Manager Earl Maize of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«If you think being a weather forecaster on Earth is difficult, it can be even more challenging at Titan,» said Scott Edgington, Cassini's deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know there are weather processes similar to Earth's at work on this strange world, but differences arise due to the presence of unfamiliar liquids like methane.

Huge colonies of marine invertebrates known as pyrosomes may coordinate their jet - like propulsion system by flashing lights at each other

Suzanne Smrekar of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the first author of the Science paper, says that as we begin to find Earth - like planets in other solar systems, some of which may turn out to be similar to Venus, it's becoming urgent to understand why the planet took such a different path from the Earth in its evolution.

APXS analyzed a rock called Jake Matijevic — named in honor of a deceased Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars engineer — and found that it is one of the most Earth - like rocks yet seen on the Red Planet.

«It's like video - streaming services not only predicting what you would like to watch in the future, but also your current age, based on your viewing preferences,» said Adam Miller of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, lead author of a new report on the findings appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

«Just like the Earth's oceans have tides, because they are pulled by the Moon's gravity, Europa should have a tide, because it's pulled by Jupiter's gravity,» explains Dr. Robert Pappalardo, a senior research scientist working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

During the dive, the orbiter will be going so fast, and Saturn's atmosphere will be thickening from its perspective so quickly, «that Cassini will be vaporized in I think maybe 2 minutes --[actually] I think more like 1,» Cassini project manager Earl Maize, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said during a news conference Wednesday (Sept. 13).

«While Earth will be only about a pixel in size from Cassini's vantage point 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away, the team is looking forward to giving the world a chance to see what their home looks like from Saturn,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, in Pasadena, Calif..

«No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn before,» Earl Maize, Cassini Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, said in a statement «We could only rely on predictions, based on our experience with Saturn's other rings, of what we thought this gap between the rings and Saturn would be like.

«The spacecraft will burn up and disintegrate like a meteor in the upper atmosphere of Saturn,» Preston Dyches, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), told Space.com via email.

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The jet propulsion with which this works is almost like BookBub — you're not selling books, but you're accomplishing something, really quickly.

The Flyboard is a water jet powered machine which allows propulsion underwater and in the air where you are strapped into boot bindings on a wakeboard like device.

Its like a hover board over water that has propulsion provided by the jet ski.

As an example of what he was talking about, he mentioned a joint project with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to allow PS4 owners to use Morpheus to feel like they're on Mars.

Far from anything like a start - up, Dave Schimel, the chief adviser on carbon cycle science at NASA's jet propulsion lab in California, has described the CSIRO as «a national treasure».

Events like the ice conditions Barber witnessed are difficult to forecast, so scientists and decision - makers need to be prepared for them, said Ronald Kwok, a climate researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who was not connected to the new study.

The car brought the tank - like aspects of the Batmobile from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns into the live action Batworld, being equipped with machine guns, bombs, hooks, grapples, and jet propulsion.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's RoboSimian swings on its lanky arms like a gymnast.

To do that, we'll underscore your experience in a way which wakes them up like takeoff acceleration by jet propulsion.