Now, we're almost certain that there's liquid water on Europa — and so the next stage is sending some kind
of robotic probe or rover out there, to do some real, up - close - and - personal science.
The soft landing
of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said
The soft landing
of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said Science's deputy news editor Robert Coontz.
Not exact matches
A third, larger spacecraft in 2020 is to gather samples and then bring them back to Earth, the first haul
of moon rocks since a Soviet
robotic probe's return in 1976.
Given these vast timescales, they would have enough time to send trillions
of self - replicating
robotic probes throughout the galaxy (exponentially growing like a swarm
of viruses), to locate all the neighboring black holes, even traveling at sublight speed.
Along with the change
of venue, researchers plan to try out one
of Phoenix's yet - to - be-deployed toys — a thermal and electrical conductivity
probe, which consists
of three spikes attached to the
robotic arm's «knuckle.»
In June the
probe's eight - foot - long
robotic arm exposed white patches
of ice in the rust - colored Martian dirt; in July it took bits
of the icy soil and studied its composition.
The entire assembly will be held by the space station's
robotic arm to expose the RGA
probe to the outside vacuum
of space near the space station.
If Obama's policy frees up money for
robotic probes, it increases our chances
of detecting life.
Beagle 2 will
probe deeper, and the six or eight samples that the
robotic arm brings back to the body
of the lander will undergo a deeper analysis than Viking was capable
of, the same analysis Pillinger's team has used on Martian meteorites.
And the price tags on some
of NASA's more immediate
robotic probes — such as the Mars Science Laboratory, now under construction — are soaring.
But then
robotic probes discovered that every lunar swirl sits beneath a bubble
of magnetic field.
Robotic spacecraft voyage to distant planets while giant mountaintop observatories and space - based telescopes
probe the edge
of the Universe.
As for space
probes, «the technology
of robotics at that time was fairly primitive.»
It is the reverse
of the orbit - insertion maneuvers that
robotic space
probes routinely undertake.
The bizarre habitat gleamed in the lights
of an underwater
robotic probe as it explored the environs
of a seafloor spring spewing water at superhot temperatures — known as a hydrothermal vent.
Robotic probes are just the first wave
of solar system exploration.
Robotic spacecraft, such as Pioneer 10 and 11 and the Voyager
probes, gave us our first close - ups
of the gas giant planets in the outer solar system.
On the surface
of sweltering Venus,
robotic probes survive for no more than a few hours.
During her 2008 campaign Clinton said she was «committed to a space exploration program that involves robust human spaceflight to complete the Space Station and later human missions, expanded
robotic spaceflight
probes of our solar system leading to future human exploration, and enhanced space science activities.»
In lieu
of the fact that there would be a desire to explore this system a
robotic probe would be the first choice to make a reconnaissance and to determine if there exists anything in the system, such as I hypothesized.
This will require the cooperative efforts
of researchers across a wide range
of disciplines: scanning
probe microscopy, supramolecular chemistry, protein engineering, self assembly,
robotics, materials science, computational chemistry, self replicating systems, physics, computer science, and more.
But Enceladus has one thing Europa doesn't — it has been visited very closely by a
robotic space
probe that could take a sniff
of its famous water vapor plumes.
Consequently, there is a sustained international effort to use
robotic probes to examine Mars for evidence
of past, and even present, life that could have retreated to subsurface, liquid aquifers.
The plot involves the Voyager space
probe returning as a semi-deity after being augmented by
robotic aliens and in search
of its makers, threatening to destroy the earth if need be.
Guardians -
of - the - future, who send
robotic probes back through the ages, discover that, at critical time - junctures, pivotal figures stray from vital tasks and actions.
Second,
robotic probes have measured Venus» atmosphere to be about 97 % CO2, and we can see from the image above (click for a larger version) that the absorption spectrum for CO2 (at Earth temperature and pressure — Venusian temperature and pressure increases the width
of the absorption bands, making CO2 a stronger absorber in Venus» atmosphere than in Earth's) strongly overlaps the peak emission spectrum
of Venus» surface.