Sentences with phrase «mission reaches the planet»

Two days before its final plunge into Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft turned its camera toward the ringed world to take a series of images for a colour mosaic, capturing a last evocative close - up until a new mission reaches the planet.

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Juno, NASA's new mission to Jupiter, reaches the giant planet on July 4, 2016.

Other factions within planetary - science circles would prefer to send another mission to Titan — maybe even an airborne drone, a sailboat or a submarine — or to reach for farther frontiers by sending orbiters to Uranus and Neptune, the last two planets that remain scarcely explored.

While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.

India was the first nation to successfully reach the Red Planet on its first attempt when the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as Mangalyaan, entered orbit in 2014.

On top of all that, NASA's InSight mission is expected to reach Mars this year to study how rocky planets form.

The New Horizons probe has the most distant target of any space mission ever attempted: everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, which it will reach in July 2015.

Also, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has reached the end of its mission and is poised to crash into the planet.

If they can pull it off, such arrays could soon extend solar's reach to the outer planets, freeing up precious plutonium for more energy - intensive NASA missions.

The missions were successes, but to reach a better understanding of the planet, long - term observations would be necessary.

Its last and final leg was called the Cassini Solstice Mission, named because the planet and its moons reached the solstice again toward the missiMission, named because the planet and its moons reached the solstice again toward the missionmission end.

The ability to grow crops is going to be essential to settling Mars: every resupply mission is going to take 10 months to reach the planet, and a suitable window for launching those missions only happens once every two years.

When New Horizons roared into a blue Florida sky on 18 January 2006, it was met with excitement and frustration in equal measure: excitement because, after so many fruitless attempts to send a spacecraft to Pluto — ranging from the ill - fated Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) to the Pluto Kuiper Express (PKE), which breathed their last in ferocious NASA budget cuts in the 1990s and at the turn of the millennium — a mission to explore the last of the nine «traditional» planets in the Solar System was underway, tempered with frustration that it would require such a long period of time in order to reach its quarry.

The mission reached a milestone toward meeting that goal: the discovery of its first rocky planet, Kepler - 10b.

Managers of NASA's Dawn spacecraft have developed a preliminary schedule for mission operations when the spacecraft reaches the dwarf planet Ceres in early 2015.

The crew and the scientists soon realise they have a new mission to destroy the creature in the spaceship before it reaches planet Earth.

Once you reach level 20 by completing the campaign and some adventures you will have the freedom to patrol the new planets and do activities and side missions to get new gear.

Set in the year 2052 players control marines who are sent on a recuse mission on a planet in the far reaches of space after it has been overrun by a swarm of aliens.

Once that point has reached, players will be able to choose between restarting their progress in the single - player campaign and continuing their exploration of the planet where the story mission occurs.

Phantasy Star Online 2 will find players joining the «Arks» organization as part of the Oracle Fleet — a group of spaceships traveling through the far reaches of the galaxy, with the mission to explore and research newly discovered planets.

Gaiam is a lifestyle company whose mission has been to reach those who share similar values of commitment to the well - being of people and the planet.