Sentences with phrase «of lunar dust»

Ms. Miller completed an internship with the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA researching the spectroscopic and chemical properties of lunar dust.

NLSI supported the NASA Ames Academy through support of a student in addition to support of their summer project of lunar dust and biological systems interactions.

WHY: To measure the density and composition of lunar dust and see how it varies from month to month WHEN: May 1, 2012

I did, but then I started reading «The New Moon: Water, Exploration, and Future Habitation «(Cambridge University Press, 2014) and realized that my knowledge amounted to a teensy scrap of lunar dust.

Our third expedition will bring back samples of lunar dust and rocks that everyone can own, providing scientists with a new source of lunar materials for research, and making these treasures from the Moon available to collectors and commercial purposes.

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Now I would say that I was compelled by the Spirit to receive the imposition of the ashes because when the priest touched my forehead and said the words, «Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return,» it seemed as if the disconnected joint in my spirit between the solar and the lunar were popped back into its right place.

While scientists have speculated on the presence of neon in the lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first time.

Artist's concept of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft in orbit above the moon.

Boulders, a crater, moon dust and an overworked computer all stood in the way of humankind's first lunar touchdown

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

Yet in November 1969, only months after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became history's first moonwalkers, Conrad left his own tracks in the lunar dust, as commander of the Apollo 12 mission.

The flecks of dust had streaked into a tennis racket — sized collector on board a spacecraft named Stardust, and scientists announced their existence at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March 2013.

That's a challenge, because the moon is a hostile environment, full of charged and abrasive lunar dust that can get into equipment and destroy electronics, as Yutu's troubles demonstrate.

NASA»S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) misLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mislunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) misLunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission.

Beyond low Earth orbit, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Experiment (LADEE) will, among other things, attempt to discover the cause of a faint glow witnessed above the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago.

A team of researchers was able to print structural objects like tools and building blocks using synthetic lunar and Martian dust.

The dusts are NASA - approved simulants of lunar and Martian dust that are similar to the real thing in composition and particle shape and size.

Instead i looked to the horizon of the lunar landscape before me and as far as the eye could see was sand and coal dust.

He predicted the lunar lander would sink into the dust, and right before he died, he pushed his belief that fossil fuels were not of biotic origin.

«I think one of the most aggravating, restricting facets of lunar surface exploration is the dust and its adherence to everything no matter what kind of material, whether it be skin, suit material, metal, no matter what it be and its restrictive, friction - like action to everything it gets on,» said Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan during the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing.