Sentences with phrase «of lunar gravity»

The origin of the waves is basically similar to that of oceanic tides caused by the pull of lunar gravity.

Precise measurements of the lunar gravity and rotation enable us to know how our natural satellite is deformed by tidal forces.

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«It can be retargeted to some interesting bodies, using lunar gravity - assist maneuvers,» said Robert Farquhar, a leading U.S. expert on orbital mechanics and author of the new book: «Fifty Years on the Space Frontier: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More.»

Reflectors planted on the lunar surface may provide the first cracks in Einstein's theory of gravity, says Stuart Clark

Maps of the moon generated from gravity data gathered by the GRAIL spacecraft include three previously undiscovered lunar basins, Bartels - Voskresenskiy, Copernicus - H and Asperitatis.

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 atmoGravity 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 atmogravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

During the last several years, the degree of the lunar deformation caused by the tidal forces has been determined by several orbiters, for example, Kaguya from Japan, Chang «e-1 from China, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) from thelunar deformation caused by the tidal forces has been determined by several orbiters, for example, Kaguya from Japan, Chang «e-1 from China, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) from theLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) from the USA.

Two of them will be part of the GRAIL mission — the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — now starting to make extremely precise measurements of the lunar gravitational field.

Just as important, the team concluded that once TESS reached its P / 2 orbit — through a series of maneuvers also involving a lunar flyby to gain momentum from the Moon's gravity — it would remain stably in that orbit for several decades.

It had been nearly 45 years since Schmitt bunny - hopped his way across the low - gravity lunar landscape in December 1972 during the final Apollo mission; half of Apollo's 12 moon walkers have now died.

Well into its fifth year, NASA's Curiosity rover has now shot more than 500 movies of the clouds above it, including the first ground - based view of martian clouds shaped by gravity waves, researchers reported this week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

The moon has only one - sixth Earth's gravity, so a lunar drilling system needs six times as much mass to exert the same force as it would here — a grim reality when each additional pound of payload can add millions of dollars to the cost of a rocket.

The seismographs left on the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts and the gravity measurements of the 1998 Lunar Prospector probe have provided enough data to explain why there are many more craters on the moon's far side than on the near side.

A NASA lunar mission scheduled to launch in September, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), may help settle the question of whether the moon once had a smaller companion.

University of Notre Dame planetary geologist Clive Neal says that a lunar base would be invaluable for studying the effects of reduced gravity on astronauts» health.

The trailer shows off some of her new gravity styles: the standard one from the first game, Lunar, which increases her speed and jumping height, and Jupiter, which increases Kat's weight and impact.

«When our team began engineering for the Lunar Rover, there were so many unknowns, including varied terrain, extreme temperatures and the effect of reduced gravity,» Ferenc Pavlics, the project's now retired chief engineer, in a release.

Playing it is like doing your taxes on the moon — both in that numbers bombard you constantly while you float and spin helplessly in zero gravity, and in the slightly pathetic feeling that you've come to some fantastic, far - off place to sit in the pod and think about your life back on earth while the rest of the astronauts take a spin on the lunar rover.

Drawing both strands together is a new selection of Gravity Styles - Jupiter Style that makes you very weighty and Lunar Style that makes you very light, both of which flare your traversal and your offensive abilities in different directions.

Well flying around continues to be the highlight of the game, which is made more interesting with the addition of the Lunar and Jupiter styles of gravity manipulation.

Stephen Wilde says: July 28, 2011 at 3:17 pm How about the proposition that the centre of gravity of the solar system affects Earth's oceans over and above lunar effects directly without needing to involve the sun at all?

More importantly, once you've gotten the hang of spring - jumping (both vertically and horizontally) in Lunar mode, you can use that to zip around the battlefield more quickly than you can by shifting gravity.

Throughout Gravity Rush 2 she learns two new stances, «lunar» and «jupiter,» the former of which makes you lighter, while the latter does the opposite.

The advanced version of the demo gives you access to both the ground - pounding Jupiter and lighter than air Lunar gravity abilities, the later which propels Kat's jumps much higher.