Sentences with phrase «near the moon»

Together, the two studies strengthen the case that there is frost in cold traps near the moon's south pole.

So far, however, researchers have not seen the same signs near the moon's north pole.

There was also a mock - up of the robotic spacecraft that would be used to capture an asteroid and bring it into a stable orbit near the moon.

NASA is looking to explore the area of space near the moon for clues on how to travel to Mars and even farther into the solar system, the space agency announced Tuesday.

When I stop turning the key to start it I hear another click coming from a relay above the visor located near the moon roof controls (see picture).

Scientists using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, have identified bright areas in craters near the moon's south pole that are cold enough to have frost present on the surface.

In March, NASA officials revealed updated plans for a small space station near the Moon called the Deep Space Gateway.

While water does not flow on Titan, rivers of methane and ethane flow into lakes near the moon's northern pole.

For example, the researchers found higher - than - average concentrations of water in lunar volcanic deposits near the Moon's equator, where background water in the soil is scarce.

Observations made by NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter in the late 1990s identified hydrogen - rich areas near the moon's poles but could not determine whether that hydrogen was bound up in water or was present in some other form.

The spacecraft would then park the asteroid in a stable, easily accessible location near the moon, where astronauts could visit and perform geologic experiments firsthand.

«We found that the coldest places near the moon's south pole are also the brightest places — brighter than we would expect from soil alone — and that might indicate the presence of surface frost,» said Elizabeth Fisher, the lead author of the study, published in Icarus.

Evidence for Jovian seas comes from the Galileo spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since 1995 and periodically swoops near its moons.

India is slated to launch its Chandrayaan - 2 rover later this year to explore near the Moon's south pole.

Near a moon base, neither access nor stability would be a problem.

IKI now has five lunar missions planned from 2018 to 2025, starting with Luna - 25, a spacecraft that would land near the moon's south pole.

While there is one large lake and a few smaller ones near Titan's south pole, almost all of Titan's lakes appear near the moon's north pole.

Their task was to independently record the positions of the stars near the moon - blotted sun and compare them with the positions of the same stars at night.

In 1994 he had helped set off the search for ice on the moon by running a jury - rigged radar experiment on the Clementine spacecraft that, by his interpretation published in Science, showed signs of ice buried near the moon's south pole.

The finding implies the fine spray of water vapor, icy particles and simple organic molecules Cassini has observed coming from fractures near the moon's south pole is being fed by this vast liquid water reservoir.

If everything goes according to (the new) plan, phase two will wrap up at the end of the 2020s with a one - year mission near the moon, which will validate the ability of the gateway - transport system to operate for extended periods in deep space.

There are no jolly elves at Titan's north pole; liquid methane and ethane seas appear as splotchy features near the moon's poles.

Cassini has performed many flybys of Enceladus since arriving in the Saturn system in July 2004, sometimes even cruising through the plumes generated by the geysers, which erupt from «tiger stripe» fissures near the moon's south pole.

The simulated ocean should yield insights into a series of possible geochemical reactions that are likely happening near the moon's core, where water - rock interaction is coupled to the thermal cycling of sea water, said team member Kosuke Fujishima, of the Earth - Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

That could only mean that a highly conductive material was present near the moon's surface.

The Shackleton Crater, located near the moon's South Pole, may become another important lunar site.

In 1999, astronomers looked anxiously for such signs when the Lunar Prospector spacecraft deliberately crashed in a crater near the moon's south pole.

In the weeks since, NASA officials have started sketching out how that effort might unfold — from a series of small commercial landers, to larger NASA landers, to a multinational space station near the Moon that could serve as a base for robots and astronauts travelling to the lunar surface.

Also, because we added the ability to process modernized GPS signals, NavCube has the potential to significantly enhance performance at low, and especially, high altitudes, potentially even to the area of space near the moon and lunar orbits,» said Luke Winternitz, Navigator's chief architect.

Its second spacecraft aims to land in 2019 near the moon's south pole.

Saturn and Mars will be the two brilliant «stars» near the moon.

Near the moon's north pole, there is growing evidence for waves on three different seas, scientists reported here today at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

March 10 Saturn is near the moon.

When the Centaur struck the lunar crater Cabeus, near the moon's south pole, on October 9, 2009, astronomers around the world tuned in to try to glimpse the impact flash, thanks in part to a public relations push from NASA that drew attention to the event and its viewing potential.

Our dealership is located near Moon, West Mifflin and Bethel Park.

Large nuclear explosions on or near the moon to trigger «moonquakes» were proposed, partly to study seismic activity in space and partly to prove that they could do something of that magnitude (a show of force, of sorts).