Sentences with phrase «major planetary missions»

Imaging, of course, has been a prime objective of the major planetary missions over the past 25 years.

«We'll probably have to delay a major planetary mission to come up with the cost.»

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«We have a mission and an obligation, given who we are and the benefits we enjoy as a result of our status as scientists, to address major science - based issues in society,» said Huybers, a professor of earth and planetary sciences and environmental science and engineering at Harvard University.

Johnson felt the committee hadn't spent enough time discussing several major NASA programs, including the fate of the International Space Station, the status of several planetary exploration missions, and a proposal by President Donald Trump to kill the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, a $ 3 billion plus instrument under development.

Major sources of astrophysical false positives are planetary transits and stellar eclipses on background... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for Earth - size planets with the transit technique.

Over the past decade, major breakthroughs in planetary geophysics have been made by spacecraft missions, space - based telescopes, and ground - based observatories including Keck.