Sentences with phrase «of lunar surface»

The rovers will be used to send back data and live stream video of the lunar surface — in glorious HD, mind — to the Earth - based scientists.

«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.

On the Moon, the effective buffering depth is ~ 1m, which for comparison gives about a tenth of the buffering capacity of the Earth's atmosphere, while the sol is of course ~ 29 times as long, so the temperature swing of the lunar surface is much greater, reaching ~ 120C during the lunar day.

So temperature of lunar surface during day is the sun temperature if the sun diameter increased to Earth / Moon distance but was also emitting the same total energy as the current sun does at it's much smaller diameter.

Since the color of lunar surface similar to color of asphalt only small amount light is reflected.

And that limit is around the temperature of lunar surface in daylight with sun at zenith.

The program landed on the moon in Gagosian Gallery in L.A. with a built - to - scale Lunar Excursion Module and took samples of the lunar surface by drilling directly into the gallery floor.

Each drawing starts out as a meticulous rendering of the lunar surface which Sawa then erases, in some cases nearly completely, to show how the moon appears to us as it waxes and wanes.

[9] Any intact lava tube on the Moon could serve as a shelter from the severe environment of the lunar surface, with its frequent meteorite impacts, high - energy ultraviolet radiation and energetic particles, and extreme diurnal temperature variations.

These talks would be visually augmented by NASA lunar imagery such as high - resolution photographs of the lunar surface, the latest lunar science visualizations, as well as by animations of current and future lunar missions.

We obtained direct global measurements of the lunar surface using multispectral thermal emission mapping with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment.

But it also overwrote parts of the cratering record up to 500 kilometers away from the basin, reducing crater counts over an area of roughly three million square kilometers, or about 8 percent of the lunar surface.

The first ever high - definition video images of the lunar surface were released this week by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation).

Chang» e-1, launched in 2007, spent 16 months in orbit snapping the nation's first images of the lunar surface.

Shielded from Earth - bound eyes, the far side of the moon is home to a rare set of dormant volcanoes that changed the face of the lunar surface, a new study finds.

Exquisite telescopic photographs of the lunar surface had existed for decades before the Apollo missions to the Moon, but they did not resolve the controversy of the origin of lunar craters were they formed by meteorite impact or by volcanic eruption?

That CO gas was responsible for the fire fountains that sprayed volcanic glass over parts of the lunar surface.

Such samples, from an unexplored part of the lunar surface, says Neal, «will have a huge impact on lunar science... but will U.S. scientists be allowed to study these?»

However, Earth's atmosphere interferes with UV readings, so the team used Hubble to take UV images of a small area of the lunar surface that included the landing sites of the Apollo 15 and 17 spacecraft.

«We've got a revolution going on in our understanding of the lunar surface,» says Rick Elphic of NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

UV images of the lunar surface show patterns that correlate with the concentration of TiO2 measured in lunar samples collected by the Apollo missions, and so a map of the UV variations can be used to create a map of TiO2 abundance.

Large portions of the lunar surface remained unseen until 1990, when NASA's Galileo probe flew by the moon on its way to Jupiter, snapping detailed pictures of the lunar north pole with sensors that captured different wavelengths of light.

The amount of water is probably small — about an eyedropperful for every two liters» worth of lunar surface material — but finding any moisture at all is a major surprise.

NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini missions and the Indian probe Chandrayaan - 1 last year reported detecting a water film only a few molecules thick over large parts of the lunar surface.

They concluded that nearly all the water in the first 200 nanometres of the lunar surface comes from the solar wind.

To win it, they'll have to transport a rover to the moon and send back a series of transmissions, the most difficult of which will be high - definition video of the lunar surface.

The third Wide Angle Camera captures moderate resolution images using filters to provide information about the properties and color of the lunar surface.

This 3D - printed moon lamp is ultra-realistic, showing the beautiful details of the lunar surface in all their glory.

The Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which supplied the data for the research, measures light reflected off of the lunar surface.

That's potentially problematic, because planetary scientists use the number of small impact craters to estimate the age of the lunar surface.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully clear images of the lunar surface, produced an image that was wild and jittery.

This shift in motivations also denotes a significant change in the end goals of modern space companies and agencies alike, especially as concerns the Moon: Rather than visiting our celestial neighbor to prove we have the ability, we're now going back to the Moon with the intention of maintaining an extended presence of the lunar surface.

Not exact matches

Based on the calculations we've done, we can actually do lunar surface missions, with no propellant production on the surface of the moon.

This plan called for a large rocket to launch a single spacecraft to the moon, but only a small part of that spacecraft (the Lunar Module) would actually land on the surface.

Bouncing along the lunar surface in a four - wheeled rover, he and Charlie Duke collected 200 pounds of rock specimens.

They've set a goal of sending their first robotic lander to the lunar surface by the end of 2017.

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

The agency was looking for domestic vendors interested in, or capable of, developing commercial payload landing services for future missions to the lunar surface.

Less than seven years after Kennedy's speech, on July 20th 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 landed the Eagle module on the lunar surface — and humankind took its famed giant leap forward into interplanetary exploration.

Additionally, the $ 30 million Google Lunar X Prize has initiated competition to reach the lunar surface by 2015, and like many competitions before, is spurring the creation of an entirely new industry, this time for lunar servLunar X Prize has initiated competition to reach the lunar surface by 2015, and like many competitions before, is spurring the creation of an entirely new industry, this time for lunar servlunar surface by 2015, and like many competitions before, is spurring the creation of an entirely new industry, this time for lunar servlunar services.

Additionally, at least two government agencies in addition to NASA are developing lunar landers with aspirations of reaching the lunar surface.

The moment the prophecy was fulfilled is confirmed by the hour of departure of the lunar module, which left the lunar surface at 17:54:1 (Universal Time) or 1:54:1 (EDT) and as you have seen above, verse [54:1] is the verse that deals with the prophecy.

On July 20, 1969, four days after blasting off from the only planet known to have life, Neil Armstrong flew a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) to the surface of the moon.

The team made the observations using LRO's LEND instrument, which detects hydrogen by counting the number of subatomic particles called neutrons flying off the lunar surface.

This experiment was just one part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the only comprehensive set of moon - based studies humans have ever conducted.

If so, it would substantiate existing evidence of a very active production and cycling of hydrogen on the lunar surface, according to McClanahan.

The hydrogen - bearing material is volatile (easily vaporized), and may be in the form of water molecules (two hydrogen atoms bound to an oxygen atom) or hydroxyl molecules (an oxygen bound to a hydrogen) that are loosely bound to the lunar surface.

And the head of the Russian space agency last year announced plans to send cosmonauts to the lunar surface around 2025.

Earth - based observers had trouble seeing the ejecta, because the densest part of the debris cloud flew low across the lunar surface and was hidden by a high ridge.

This concept images shows ARM robotic capture Option B, in which the robotic vehicle ascends from the surface of a large asteroid, on its way to a lunar distant retrograde orbit with a smaller asteroid mass in its clutches.