Sentences with phrase «of planetary exploration»

Are images really the most significant products of planetary exploration?

«I wanted to remind people that the history of planetary exploration has told us the importance of going there.

«It's frustrating because it should be a golden age of planetary exploration because there's so much data that's coming in, but what's missing is the commitment of funding to interpret the measurements,» says Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a science team member on the twin Mars rover mission.

NASA, too, is feeling the pinch, as it juggles Mars planning, support of the troubled space shuttle fleet, lagging construction of the International Space Station, and an ambitious program of planetary exploration.

Melissa Guzman, Astrobiologist at Nasa Ames, stated: «The image of students building plant growth payloads and communicating virtually from labs in California, Lima, and Dubai is exciting for the future of planetary exploration and astrobiology.

After focusing on art and design through high school and college, and then following related pursuits, he decided to «return to his roots» and started his blog The Meridiani Journal in 2005, which was a chronicle of planetary exploration.

This is part of a larger plan to make the BFR profitable, and help cover the costs of planetary exploration.

«One of the enduring messages of planetary exploration,» Stevenson says, «is when we actually go somewhere, we are surprised.»

As director of the Planetary Exploration and Space Astronomy directorate of the Space Science branch, I lead the group that has sponsored this project.

But V. Sundararamaiah, ISRO's scientific secretary, says the agency hopes to create a dozen or so junior research fellowships at select institutes and universities to serve the needs of its planetary exploration program.

«The search for life is a major focus of planetary exploration, but there hasn't been direct life detection instrumentation on a mission since the 70s, during the Viking missions to Mars,» explains Dr Jacqueline Goordial, one of the study's authors.

«The exploration of Pluto and its moons by New Horizons represents the capstone event to 50 years of planetary exploration by NASA and the United States,» said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.

NASA managers have promised that Titan remains the next priority for the outer solar system and pledged a small amount of funding for further work on the mission's detailed design, although it is hard to mask the pain of such a major delay in the slow - paced world of planetary exploration.

In the very early days of planetary exploration, the agency's strategy was to launch pairs of spacecraft to Mars so that if one of the spacecraft failed, the other could pick up the torch.

The company was established in 2008 and aims to deliver «affordable space robotics technology and missions for a new era of planetary exploration, science, tourism, resource utilization and mining.»

«For many years, we referred to Pluto as the Everest of planetary exploration,» said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado.

After several decades of planetary exploration, this expectation is now recognized as false.b [See Figure 23.]

One of the great revelations of planetary exploration has been that our Solar System is awash in water, from the dry plains of Mars to the interiors of various outer icy moons like Jupiter's Europa and Ganymede and Saturn's moon Enceladus.

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — An astronaut aboard the International Space Station successfully operated a rover on Earth's surface Friday (July 26), helping lay the foundation for future human - robot partnerships that could push the boundaries of planetary exploration.

Friday's test was the second in a three - part series designed to help engineers and mission planners understand how the activities of humans and robots can be coordinated to maximize the reach and efficiency of planetary exploration missions.

«The most striking outcome of planetary exploration is the diversity of the planets.»

If the history of planetary exploration is any indication, then New Horizons is bound to provide the next paradigm shift in our understanding of the many different and fascinating worlds within our planetary family and possibly beyond as well.

«With the successful flyby of Pluto we are celebrating the capstone event in a golden age of planetary exploration,» said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, in a statement.

Planetaria (formerly The Meridiani Journal) is a chronicle of planetary exploration, both in our own Solar System and beyond.