Sentences with phrase «lower than earth»

I'm not sure how much and I'm not sure the claimed net effect is even true because the moon's surface also gets much colder than the earth's and then the delta - t is lower than the earth and heat loss slows.

Not exact matches

But because Mars has lower gravity than Earth, you do not need a booster.

Then SABRE will flip to rocket power, taking the spacecraft to low Earth orbit and reaching speeds of Mach 25 — more than 19,000 miles per hour.

«The commercialization of LEO (low Earth orbit) is an exciting prospect, but it will be an exercise in determining what ideas are more real than others,» said Phil Larson, a former space policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for Elon Musk's SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp..

SpaceX is looking to launch several small satellites into a lower orbit than Viasat in order to cut down on latency errors, with the idea being the closer a satellite is to Earth, the less likely there will be hiccups.

The Air Force has not disclosed many details about the space craft other than to say it's designed for «low Earth orbit altitudes where it can perform long duration space technology experimentation and testing.»

«If we could solve the problem of getting to space more effectively than we do now, I think we would find ourselves doing more interesting, potentially game - changing things in low Earth orbit.»

This will be a major moment if successful, and will make SpaceX the first US company to successfully launch its first prototype internet satellites intended for low Earth orbit (200-1000 miles above Earth), a factor that would make them far more viable as a competitive alternative to ground - based internet than the current heavyweights in geostationary orbit (30,000 + miles above Earth).

It's able to lift 140,000 pounds to low - Earth orbit, making it more capable than any rocket available today.

We know the lowest level of these glories is said to be more beautiful than this Earth.

The low Protestant / evangelical / fundamentalist churches that litter the American countryside have simply forgotten that Jesus in the Gospels was more concerned with bringing the Kingdom to Earth today (and everyday) than planning for some pie - in - the - sky, everything - is - wonderful future.

Updike has given his readers a glimpse of the human on the boundary between earth and heaven — a little lower than the angels, held in God's hand.

This man has done for Arsenal more than any other living creature (bar Chapman but since I was not born I can only tell by the stories) on the face of this earth and you have the audacity to actually Stoke him when the team (which shares the blame) hit the low point.

But why on earth would they accept an offer which was lower than what West Ham put in for him last month?!

Because the martian air pressure is very low — 100 times lower than at sea level on Earth — ice on Mars does not melt and become liquid when it warms up.

The sun has a much lower deuterium concentration than our oceans, suggesting that much of Earth's water comes directly from the initial pre-solar cloud.

Incorporating this kind of data into the models has been difficult in part because geostationary data provide fewer measurements for any given vertical slice of the atmosphere than do polar orbiters, which circle Earth at lower altitudes.

That's lower than auroras on Earth, which range from 100 km to 500 km high.

They will also give NASA an opportunity to shake off the missteps that for more than three decades have left us stuck in low Earth orbit with a troubled space shuttle and a largely irrelevant International Space Station — programs that together will have cost roughly $ 250 billion by the time they are paid for.

High - energy radiation from a gamma - ray burst reached Earth 4 minutes later than the lower - energy rays.

Scientists have found the halogen levels in the meteorites that formed the Earth billions of years ago are much lower than previously thought.

Research published last week in Science suggested that the makeup of Earth's lower mantle, which makes up the largest part of Earth by volume, is significantly different than previously thought.

Of course, low mass is relative; the smallest of the planemos is still five times the size of Jupiter, which is more than 300 times as massive as Earth.

GJ 1214 b's tale of the tape: about five Earths wide, with six - and - a-half times the mass, and a density several times lower than CoRoT - 7b's.

In a transect representing more than a million years of seafloor spreading, the researchers found topographic highs and lows that seemed to have formed in synchrony with all three of Earth's astronomical cycles, which have periods of 23,000, 41,000, and 100,000 years.

The [moon] suit was fabulous, it worked great in fact because of the low pressure; the suit was pressurized obviously, but the pressure was less than you would have on Earth, and with the gravity being less he states you can pretty much keep up a good — if you wanted to run, you get into the right crouched position, you can do an extended run at a solid six miles an hour.

Spend 40 years by the shores of the Dead Sea, at the lowest elevations on the Earth's surface, and you'll age 48 microseconds less than someone living at sea level, and 750 microseconds less than the residents of La Rinconada in Peru, at an altitude of 5100 metres

The temperature does not change much: highs around 1700 degrees Fahrenheit, lows near 1200, and winds eight times faster than the speed of sound on Earth.

Instead they found a problem: the density of the earth in the pyramid is at least 20 per cent lower on one side than the other.

Every satellite that flies lower than geostationary orbit (22,500 miles) is destined to fall back to Earth eventually.

Instead, for the past three decades we've been relegated to nothing more than trips to low Earth orbit in space shuttles and a space station going around in circles growing plants and taking pictures of the weather.

It's capable of putting 63,800 kilograms into low Earth orbit — that's more than a seventh the mass of the entire International Space Station — or bringing 16,800 kilograms to Mars.

That is four to five times higher than non-flight astronauts and astronauts who have traveled in low Earth orbit.

The new research results show that the cosmic rays ionize Earth's atmosphere in the troposphere — the lowest level of the atmosphere — to a level eight times higher than normal.

It's also been decades since space travel has meant anything other than uninspiring low Earth orbit.

When snow melts in response to warming, more sunlight can be absorbed at Earth's surface because most surfaces have a lower reflectivity than snow.

«We suggest that oxygen was much lower than previously thought during this important middle chapter in Earth history, which likely explains the low abundances and diversity of eukaryotic organisms and the absence of animals,» Lyons said.

This transient atmosphere is still extremely tenuous, with a maximum pressure at perihelion, when the comet is closest to the Sun, 100,000 times lower than on Earth.

«Our work reveals that helium has the propensity to react with a broad range of ionic compounds at even low pressures, which implies that there might be much more of it in the Earth than we realize,» he said.

For now, 2016 still stands as the hottest year of all time, a year when no land area on Earth experienced lower - than - average temperatures.

Around the Earth's core - mantle boundary are regions called ultralow - velocity zones (ULVZs), which are characterized by liquid rock with velocities up to 30 % lower than surrounding material.

«Because our sensitivity to such short events was very low, free - floating Earths should be very common, perhaps more frequent than stars.

Sky watchers have catalogued more than 16,000 objects larger than about 10 centimeters, most of them in low Earth orbit, at altitudes of 200 to 2,000 kilometers.

He adds that the microscope's electron beam is more powerful than natural settings, but the gelling effect could affect the lifetime of electrospray thrusters in low - Earth and geosynchronous orbit.

In Earth's solar system, more massive planets have a lower abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.

When these previous strength data were plotted against the grain size in each study, all the data fit on a smooth trend which predicts lower - than - thought strengths in Earth's lithospheric mantle.

(Suborbital means the vehicle can fly only to a lower altitude than is necessary to start orbiting the Earth — it would have to travel higher, and faster, to reach altitudes achieved by orbiting satellites or the International Space Station, for example.)

It is expected to carry up to 64,000 kilograms to low - Earth orbit, more than twice the payload of the biggest currently available vehicle, United Launch Alliance's (ULA's) Delta IV Heavy.

Sand grains on Titan maintain that charge and stick together for much longer than particles on Earth could because of their low density and the dryness of the moon's atmosphere.

The low densities of the Kepler 11 planets imply a bounty of light elements and a dearth of iron and rock, making the midsize worlds more akin to mini Neptunes than to terrestrial, supersize Earths.