Sentences with phrase «like space probes»

RTGs are typically used in remote locations, like space probes, and a solid - state solution offers fewer failure modes than something with moving parts.

Even though no concrete evidence of extraterrestrials has ever been confirmed, it seems like every space probe ever launched and scheduled to launch has a «FIND LIFE» stamped in its mission.

Not exact matches

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

Several sails have been unfurled in space to test deployment, and spacecraft like NASA's Mercury probe, Messenger, have used the pressure of sunlight to alter trajectories.

By going into space like Gravity Probe B, STEP could dramatically improve the precision of equivalence principle measurements.

Space - based infrared telescopes like WISE allow astronomers to see past the hot, bright stars that dominate visible - light images and probe the subtle, cold regions of gas and dust where stars are born.

And real space probes often contain plenty of shady hiding spots like coatings, creases, interior compartments, and even layers of already - dead spores.

A ground - based laser array in a high - altitude site like Chile's Atacama Desert, shown in this artist's rendering, could send 100 gigawatts of power to orbiting space probes, enough to accelerate them to a significant fraction of the speed of light.

Deimos does not have anything like them, nor do any of the half - dozen regular asteroids imaged by space probes so far.

Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying Sun - like star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures in planetary nebula NGC 2371.

Like the long - duration space missions that came before it — the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the twin Voyager probes and, more recently, the European Rosetta mission, for example — Cassini irrevocably changed our perspectives, become ingrained in the lives of the people who worked with the mission and had tangible impacts on society.

The videos confirmed the unorthodox new mode of division Obernier's labeling experiments had implied, but also revealed the cells» surprising dynamism: a long tail that touches and probes nearby blood vessels, short arms that poke and prod other stem cells, and a tongue - like antenna that pokes into the nearby ventricular space, as if to «taste» the cerebrospinal fluid there.

What the Common Core standards have recommended are texts like Abraham Lincoln's «Gettysburg Address»; the U.S. Constitution; the Declaration of Independence; Winston Churchill's «Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat» speech; Ronald Reagan's speech to the students of Moscow University; and a plethora of texts on science and technology, including ones on space probes, elementary particles, architecture, and engineering.

Like two years before, he probes deeply into the shallow space of a Jackson Pollock.

«i see my typestracts as icons depicting sacred questions — dual space - probes of inner & outer... they should probably be viewed like cloud - tracks & tide - ripples — bracken - patterns & gull flights — or simply as horizons & spirit levels.»

A red thumb probes into space like a rude hologram, a checkered floor sucks down into a vortex.

If scientists behaved like philosophers nobody would ever get anything done because they'd all be too worried about having missed some factor, and anyway what if I'm just imagining the space probe in the first place?

Like climate satellites, space probes only work if mission control is still in business when deep space instuments and cameras get to their distant destinations.

However, highly accurate measurements made by satellites, like the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)[2], have corroborated that the deep space has a temperature and, additionally, that it is not an absolutely -LSB-...]

The Voyager 1 space probe was launched on September 5, 1977 and, after nearly forty years in space, has traveled roughly 20,227,475,000 kilometers (135.7 AU) from Earth — while that may seem like quite a distance, in terms of interstellar travel the hardy little probe has only traveled ~ 19 light hours, not quite a full light day, and certainly nowhere close to a light year.