Sentences with phrase «of images of our planet»

The storm, known as the Great Red Spot, is seen here swirling at the centre of the image of the planet.

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It's been orbiting the sixth planet from the sun ever since, sending back data of immense scientific value and images of magnificent beauty.

In the image above, the light of a new day on Saturn illuminates the planet's wavy cloud patterns and the smooth arcs of its vast rings.

«As it turns out, one of the perhaps six people on planet Earth who could have looked at my cartoon and said «yes» was a woman married to a guy who was the spitting image of, and had the same job as, Dilbert.

But in sharing detailed images of giant rockets, spaceships, fuel pods, and other crucial components of his Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS), Musk left out some important stuff, including where he plans to fit 100 to 200 passengers on each trip to the red planet.

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.

The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

We're just now seeing them — months after we first encountered the dwarf planet — because the New Horizons spacecraft can only trickle the images back to Earth from billions of miles away.

Each time NASA's Juno spacecraft flies over Jupiter's clouds — roughly once every 53.5 days — it takes some of t he most incredible and unprecedented images of the planet ever seen.

Bill Anders captured the first image of our planet that changed the world on Dec. 24, 1968.

Previous missions selected by New Frontiers include New Horizons, a nuclear - powered probe that flew by Pluto in 2015 and is now going deeper into the Kuiper Belt; OSIRIS - REx, a robot that's flying out to meet asteroid Bennu and bring a sample of it back to Earth; and the Juno mission, which is looping around Jupiter, recording unprecedented data and breathtaking images of the planet.

The currency news was edged out by entertainment gossip, crime, the explosion in the harbour city of Tianjin and a NASA robot cruising the planet Mars transmitting an image of what looked like a woman, the website showed.

Whether it was answers to the body and movement of water, the mechanics of the human heart and body, the motion of the planets or to discover why birds fly, or how the human eye perceives light and distant images, or why fossils are found on mountains, his quest for knowledge was extraordinary.

Eighty - eight of those small satellites were the property of Planet; with these eyes on the sky, along with the 50 they already had in orbit, the company promises its customers high - resolution images of the Earth for everything from crop yield monitoring to aiding first responders with real - time images of natural disasters.

An image taken by the Curiosity Rover has turned viral after a video posted by a group insisted that the image was the vestige of an ancient Martian tree on the planet as an assertion of life on Mars.

Planet owns and operates the largest private satellite fleet in orbit, and provides the most consistently up - to - date images of our Earth's surface

This image is of the dwarf planet Ceres, in an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the two points of light emanating from it have scientists puzzled.

To think that Earth is the only planet with life and that some deity made just one world in the universe for us as well as making us in his image is just the depths of vanity.

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

And then, having created this universe of over 100 billion galaxies containing a trillion trillion stars he decides to focus his attention on one planet where he creates life «in his image» as if such a being would even have an image.

-- After creating the entire universe containing billions of stars, God focuses all his attention on one planet revolving around one star, terraforms it, and creates life, one form of which he claims is in «his image.»

From this beginning came all that followed, so everything that is is related, woven into a seamless network, with life gradually emerging after billions of years on this planet (and perhaps on others) and resulting in the incredibly complex, intricate universe we see today.32 To think of God as the creator and continuing creator / sustainer of this massive, breathtaking cosmic fact dwarfs all our traditional images of divine transcendence — whether political or metaphysical.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

The person who did think of the Earth Flag, a simple image of our planet on a blue background, was John McConnell, a charismatic peace activist who frequented the halls of the United Nations from the 1950s through the 1990s.

The basic Christian doctrine of sin, which stressed that humanity exists in a tragic state of alienation from the God who created it in his own image, is being replaced by the discovery that humanity is currently in a state of war with the planet which has brought it forth.

The consequence of these reflections is the full recognition that to have been created in God's image means, for human beings, that we are created in the image of God as Love.134 That has all - encompassing implications for the way in which we are invited to exercise power in our relationships with one another and with all of creation on our home planet.

The human male is the strongest, smartest animal there is on the planet, he's definitely stronger and smarter than the female of the species... so if man is like a god on this planet, then that must mean that God must have made man in HIS image.

The opening chapters of the Scriptures state that as the apex of life on the planet God created man in His own image.

In the same manner, the symbolism of the number 7 and, consequently, the image of the Cosmic Tree with seven branches did not appear before the discovery of the seven planets, which in Mesopotamia led to the conception of the seven planetary heavens.

But David Gray, analyst at Planet Retail, rejects the idea that frozen food has any type of image problem.

Even Pelé, who has spent most of his post-football life carefully cultivating an image as the least controversial human being on the planet, has shifted his position.

Early images taken by New Horizons of the dwarf planet's surface mean we have to rethink how the planet was formed

PRETTY PLANET One Strange Rock contains gorgeous images of Earth, such as these colorful hydrothermal fields in Dallol, Ethiopia.

It may very well be an image - the very first image ever - of a planet caught in the act of formation.

«The images now are just at that intriguing resolution that lets you make stuff up,» says Mike Brown, the California Institute of Technology astronomer whose work helped motivate the reclassification of Pluto and Ceres as dwarf planets.

After analyzing this view of a glory on Venus — combining three wavelengths into a false - color image — astronomers were surprised to learn that the planet's clouds aren't pure sulfuric acid after all, but may include iron chloride and pure sulfur.

Vibrant images of our planet are common now, but it was only 70 years ago when we first caught a glimpse of Earth from a height of more than 100 miles.

Astronomers have used SPHERE to obtain many other impressive images, as well as for other studies including the interaction of a planet with a disc, the orbital motions within a system, and the time evolution of a disc.

New maps of the rocky planet's surface, based on images taken in the 1990s by NASA's Magellan spacecraft, show that Venus» low - lying plains are surrounded by a complex network of ridges...

Astronomers were observing a very young star (the position of which is marked in the image by the star shape) known to have a disk of material surrounding it, the kind that forms planets.

«The first high - resolution images of the planet will be taken on August 27 when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter.»

This image brought me right back to that moment, as I saw the black disc of our sister planet crossing the blazing disk of the rising Sun.

The spectacular discs that ALMA has imaged around much younger stars, such as HL Tauri, contain much more material that is in the process of forming planets.

In a sense, that planet feels the closest because we have this image of it.

This artist's impression is based on a detailed map of the surface compiled from images taken from NASA's Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres.

The images, taken over a 10 - hour period, created two massive maps of the entire planet, allowing scientists to measure the speeds of Jupiter's winds, identify different events in its atmosphere, and track changes in the outer layers of the planet.

To access these bone - crushing depths, the NOAA team relies on the trusty Deep Discoverer ROV, which has provided stunning images and video of our planet's deepest, darkest secrets.

Swirling clouds blanket Jupiter's northern and southern poles in the first closeup images of the planet taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Taking an optical image of distant planets is tough because the bright light from their stars drowns them out.

Now as he settles down in front of the computer, watching images of the sky build up on the screen, Dyvig slides naturally into his identity as one of the world's leading asteroid hunters — as someone who, just maybe, could help save the planet.