Sentences with phrase «of robotic probes»

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.

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

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.

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.