Sentences with phrase «missions exploring the moons»

The Jupiter probe Galileo, launched in 1989, lasted through four years of extended missions exploring the moons Europa and Io before burning up in a planned plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere in September 2003.

Not exact matches

Eleven years into its mission exploring Saturn and its moons, the Cassini spacecraft continues to make new kinds of discoveries.

Thanks to the Apollo missions, 12 humans have walked on the moon's surface, but only two people have explored the deepest depths of our oceans.

Through footage from NASA missions, viewers also visit those places in our solar system most likely to harbor elusive life - forms, including Mars and the moons Titan, Io, Europa, and Enceladus, and explore analogous habitats found right here on Earth.

Over a career that spans the entire Space Age, he has designed some of the first scientific instruments for satellites, directed searches for life - supporting conditions on Mars and above all managed the science team of the Voyager missions that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune along with their moons — the single greatest expedition ever undertaken.

A team proposing the use of a flying rover to explore Saturn's moon Titan, and another that wants to send a sample - collecting mission to Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, are the finalists in NASA's search for its next interplanetary destination, officials announced Wednesday.

Future engineers will borrow that trick to explore Jupiter's moon Europa with the Clipper mission, which is planned to launch in the 2020s.

NASA already has four robotic missions in the works, designed to explore the moon's atmosphere, gravity and seismology.

NASA will extend to 2017 the international Cassini - Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons that was scheduled to end in September of this year.

Missions to explore the oceans on Saturn's largest moon might have to contend with powerful currents driven by solar energy.

«There have been six piloted missions to the moon and we have a robust robotic programme that explores planetary surfaces.

NASA has selected two missions to further explore past targets — Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko — as the final candidates for its next billion - dollar robotic spacecraft, the agency announced today.

NASA announced plans to move forward with a mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa.

If the shell is thin, it could mean the moon's ocean receives sunlight and radiation from cracks in the surface, boosting the energy available for life and the chances that future missions could be sent to explore the ocean, potentially with a robotic submarine.

The last mission to explore Jupiter's moons was the Galileo probe.

The idea is to capture a small asteroid, bring it into orbit around the moon using SEP, and then send astronauts to explore it — a daring and politically contentious concept called the Asteroid Redirect Mission.

The joint Jupiter mission beat out a competing proposal to send probes to Saturn, including a balloon and lander to explore Saturn's moon Titan, which boasts a thick atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane and ethane.

It is important news for missions such as ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer, a mission planned for launch in 2022, and which aims to explore both Jupiter and three of its largest moons: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.

«Future missions will visit Jupiter's moons, but we should also explore Uranus» and Neptune's systems,» he said.

The Apollo missions alone left behind 23 large artefacts, including the descent and ascent stages of the lunar module landers, the third stages of the Saturn rockets used to fly them there, and the lunar rovers or «moon buggies» the astronauts used to explore once they arrived.

NASA's planetary science division would receive $ 1.9 billion in 2018 under Trump's budget, a plan that includes funding for the 2020 Mars rover and the Europa Clipper mission to explore Jupiter's icy, ocean - harboring moon.

Cassini, which is nearing the end of its 13 - year mission exploring Saturn and its moons, detected the molecular hydrogen during its final pass through Enceladus» plumes in October 2015.

Morgan Cable is part of the NASA team working on the proposed Dragonfly mission, which would explore Saturn's haze - covered moon using a dual - quadcopter that could fly hundreds of kilometers during a 2 - year mission.

The mission to explore Europa, the moon of Jupiter with twice as much seawater as Earth, has entered «phase B,» meaning the project now has funding from Congress.

Alternatively, Cassini could have been directed back inward, to explore giant Jupiter and its many moons, rounding out science started on NASA's Galileo mission in 1995.

The European Space Agency is preparing a mission to explore Jupiter and its moons.

Once the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA had decided to embark on this adventure together to explore Saturn, its moon Titan and the Saturnian System, they threw open to the scientific community the opportunity to provide the scientific instruments which are of course the raison d'être for the mission.

Missions selected were Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR), a mission to return a sample from the nucleus of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, and Dragonfly, a drone - like rotorcraft lander that would explore the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of dozens of sites on Saturn's moon Titan.

The film is a science fiction thriller starring Sharlto Copley (District 9) that explores the first manned mission to Jupiter's mysterious moon, Europa.

Huge, Open Game World - Explore and unlock an unknown alien moon to discover your origins and your mission.

Unfortunately, I missed out on the event, but talking with another player online, he told me they were able to play through a new story mission and explore the entire area of the Moon.

Instead of selecting a mission, completing said mission, and returning to the hub world or map screen, you can explore kingdoms and collect all of the moons in one go.

The introduction of Planetary Landings will bring with it new types of missions in which players scan planets and moons from orbit and then chose whether or not to land and explore.

As far as this goes, I honestly think it'd be better if they stuck to the Dark Moon formula complete with multiple missions and different mansions to explore.

Observe Grummans at work at Mission Control, watch Tom Sachs movies at the cinema, become indoctrinated and explore the Landing Excursion Module, visit the Museum of the Moon, and witness rescue operations at 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm.