Sentences with phrase «lunar surface»

New research suggests that swirling designs on the dusty lunar surface might be the product of electric fields generated by pockets of magnetic bubbles.

The discovery has the effect of giving lunar surface features younger ages.

The above photograph, Buzz Aldrin on Lunar Surface, from July 20, 1969, is by the astronaut Neil Armstrong and is included in Blau's upcoming exhibition, Exploring Beauty: early extra-terrestrial photography.

«What this is telling us,» she says, «is these large basins modified the entire lunar surface at some point.»

Obama and Congress agreed that the long term goal is landing humans on Mars, but not on whether lunar surface missions are a necessary prerequisite.

Bigger bumps will still bounce your passengers, but there isn't a bone rattling harshness to the bumps and there is enough suppleness to slowly roll over lunar surfaces of the poorly maintained roads in my Oakland neighborhood without much drama.

They've found that one of the biggest challenges to lunar settlement — as vexing as new rocketry or radiation — is how to live with regolith that covers virtually the entire lunar surface from a depth of7 feet to perhaps 100 feet or more.

This experiment was just one part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the only comprehensive set of moon - based studies humans have ever conducted.

The cratered lunar surface breaks up the slender slice of light peeking through, resulting in a bumpy appearance.

The NASA Lunar Diviner probe has made multiple empirical measurements of the Moons complete surface and shows the mean Lunar surface temperature to be 197K.

Based on the calculations we've done, we can actually do lunar surface missions, with no propellant production on the surface of the moon.

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

Scientists studying the first year's worth of data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have found unexpected mineral deposits, the possibility that our natural satellite was bombarded in two waves in its early history, and virtually no trace of a pristine lunar surface.

Planetary scientist Benjamin Greenhagen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, described a study he co-authored of lunar surface chemistry by LRO's Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE), which analyzes chemical composition by reading the lunar soil's infrared emissions — its internal heat.

The speakers were Ryan Whitley (NASA HQ) and Markus Landgraf (ESA ESTEC) who presented «International Human Lunar Surface Scenario.»

China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.

While many in Congress and the space community call for stability and continuity at NASA — no big changes like those imposed by President Obama — an exception is made for the prospect of restoring lunar surface missions.

Schmitt, the only scientist to visit the Moon, and Stafford, who orbited the Moon on Apollo 10, clearly want lunar surface missions back in the plan.

The bill does not require that NASA reinstate lunar surface missions to its human exploration plan, but Palazzo noted that the NRC report pointed to the «significant contributions» such missions could provide for the longer term goal of human landings on Mars.

When the insect - like ship (with two red lights / eyes on its top and two sets of white lights / eyes on its side - it appears like a skull) reaches its moon colonization destination, it descends toward the craggy, black lunar surface, extending its four landing legs above an underground airlock.

Full of parched diagonals and framed in a boxy, horizon - chopping Academy ratio, the Oregon vistas here are half Wyeth prairie, half lunar surface, and wholly the kind of transfixing American void into which the director's outsiders lose themselves.

As far as the plot of The Moon that the two have jumped into, it concerns The Moon takes place on the cold lunar surface in the year 2058.

Like Earth, the ruins of humanity's former glory can be found scattered across the familiar lunar surface.

There are 20 + dangerous territories for you to explore and battle in including lunar surfaces, underground alien structures, active volcanic hot spots, caverns with falling stalactites, and more.

Unidentified Photographer Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin practicing lunar surface activities, Apollo 11, June 1969.

Unidentified Photographer Two views of Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard during lunar surface training at the Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 14, November 1970.

Just in case you missed it, I have to draw attention to a spectacular new image of the dynamic blue Earth set against the sterile lunar surface — a k a, an «Earthrise,» generated this time with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

«I think one of the most aggravating, restricting facets of lunar surface exploration is the dust and its adherence to everything no matter what kind of material, whether it be skin, suit material, metal, no matter what it be and its restrictive, friction - like action to everything it gets on,» said Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan during the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing.

DISCOVERING which creature first hit terra firma has got to be as thrilling in its way as watching Armstrong's big moment on the dusty lunar surface.

The Diviner survey has provided the first chemical map of the entire lunar surface, he added.

So how much of the observed differences between the Earth and Lunar surface temperatures are explained by the different speeds of rotation, how much by the absence / presence of an atmosphere, and how much by the many other differences between the Earth and the Moon?

For folks in Congress, NASA's «plate» most likely includes fully implementing the SLS / Orion enabled ISS emergency backup mission capability and Lunar surface missions required in the «National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 (PUBLIC LAW 111 - 267 OCT. 11, 2010)».

The amount of water is probably small — about an eyedropperful for every two liters» worth of lunar surface material — but finding any moisture at all is a major surprise.

Bouncing along the lunar surface in a four - wheeled rover, he and Charlie Duke collected 200 pounds of rock specimens.

More physics and math happens here, but it means that for every kilogram of cargo you want to put on the lunar surface, you have to put 4.73 kg of mass into LEO.

They've set a goal of sending their first robotic lander to the lunar surface by the end of 2017.

More than four decades have passed since a person has trekked the lunar surface.

Our first expedition to the equatorial region of the Moon will utilize our MX - 1E robotic explorer to deliver a diverse manifest of commercial, government and private payloads to the lunar surface at a fraction of the cost of large government programs.