Sentences with phrase «of space probes»

«Dodging a bullet» is a well - worn cliche, but it looks as if the small armada of space probes orbiting Mars dodged a shrapnel blast last month.

There are no discrepancies in the trajectories of any space probes such as Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 that can be attributed to the gravitational pull of a large undiscovered object in the outer Solar System.

RTGs have powered dozens of space probes over the years, including the Curiosity rover currently exploring Mars.

Locking on also gives you a wonderful way of experiencing the missions of space probes launched from Earth.

The next generation of space probes is being powered by highly efficient electric plasma rockets.

Newton, who formulated the universal law of gravity and used it to explain a wealth of phenomena, including the orbits of planets, the tides of the ocean, and the flattening of Earth at its poles, did not need to know the value of G. Nor, for that matter, do NASA engineers who plot the paths of space probes with breathtaking precision.

NASA has added two more missions to its Small Explorers series of space probes.

More than a year after the sun lashed out at Earth with the most powerful set of storms ever recorded, a fleet of space probes continues to track the reverberations.

Hints that the stuff might surround Earth come from observations of space probes, several of which changed their speeds in unexpected ways as they flew past Earth.

A flotilla of space probes is being lined up to haul anchor and find out

The vast volume of space probed by such a galaxy survey will provide a measure of the relationship between the amount of mass and the amount of radiation emitted by galaxies throughout the Universe.

Not exact matches

A rare view of the far side of the moon, taken by the China National Space Administration's lunar probe.

The Chinese Academy of Science has created a space probe to investigate dark matter.

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.

NASA's Insight lander was built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Denver and delivered to Vandenberg Airfare base in California on February 28, and will probe the deep interior of the Red Planet to gain a better understanding of the processes that have shaped rocky planets such as Mars and Earth.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

Although Luther was most captive to this form of thinking, it also affected the other 16th century Reformers; Instead of seeing the Eucharist as a time mystery, they treated it as a space mystery, and probed the static problem of locating the body of Christ rather than the dynamic one of making contact with a saving event.

I realize this may not be clear or meaninful to some readers and I can't take the space here to go into it other than to say that a good segment of biblical scholarship for a couple decades at least, has properly broadened its pursuits in an interdisciplinary manner, into probing for better understandings of the nature and formative, growth processes of the earliest groups of Jesus followers and how they ultimately became Jewish Christian groups, or started as mixed Jewish / Gentile groups (as via Paul, et al.).

Here we should take a leaf from Barcelona's book and observe how they patiently pass the ball, probe the defence and waiting for space to occur as a result of frustration.

The light's wavelength can also change noticeably when photons are scattered off ionised gas moving through space, providing a way to probe the velocity of such gas.

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

China's second moon probe is parked at a stable spot in deep space, called a Lagrangian point, as part of a new mission to study the sun and Earth's magnetic field.

«The UAE Mars probe represents the Islamic world's entry into the era of space exploration,» said UAE president Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan last year when the probe was first announced.

These goals are similar to those of MAVEN and MOM, two Mars probes launched last year by NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO, but the UAE isn't just replicating those missions.

It's not simply a matter of sending a space probe or pointing Hubble toward the nearest exoplanet.

«When more - powerful detectors provide us with more observations,» Mészáros said, «we also will be able to use Fast Radio Bursts as a probe of their host galaxies, of the space between galaxies, of the cosmic - web structure of the universe, and as a test of fundamental physics.»

Several sails have been unfurled in space to test deployment, and spacecraft like NASA's Mercury probe, Messenger, have used the pressure of sunlight to alter trajectories.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite has used ground - penetrating radar in some areas to look for a water table but found no evidence for one, despite research that concluded any water would be found within 9 kilometres of the surface — well within the reach of the probe's instruments.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the international Cassini probe, and found that the interactions between Titan's atmosphere, and the solar magnetic field and radiation, create a wind of hydrocarbons and nitriles being blown away from its polar regions into space.

By going into space like Gravity Probe B, STEP could dramatically improve the precision of equivalence principle measurements.

Space - based infrared telescopes like WISE allow astronomers to see past the hot, bright stars that dominate visible - light images and probe the subtle, cold regions of gas and dust where stars are born.

But to probe the galaxy's true nature, astronomers needed the sharp vision of the Hubble Space Telescope.

A proposed space - based Supernova / Acceleration Probe should be able to rule out one theory — perhaps even both of them — during its three - year mission.

Advanced Virgo's improvements will increase its sensitivity tenfold, and allow researchers to probe a volume of space 1,000 times larger than before.

No space probe or telescope built by humans has ever escaped the Milky Way to turn back and take a portrait; because we are embedded in our galaxy's disk, we can only see it as a bright band of stars across the sky.

And real space probes often contain plenty of shady hiding spots like coatings, creases, interior compartments, and even layers of already - dead spores.

To the Edge and Beyond Once Stone was free of his director's duties at JPL, he could again focus on the Voyager probes, both now headed inexorably to interstellar space.

There, unlike on Earth, the lack of plate tectonics and erosion help preserve surface features, which are probed by space craft.

Measurements of the afterglow from the Big Bang by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission yield predictions for the Hubble constant that are 5 percent and 9 percent smaller, respectively.

Back in 2003 the same team warned in an article published in Nature of the drastic reduction in winds on the cloud level with respect to what had been observed when the Voyager space probes visited the planet.

The «gravitational lens» created by the bending of light through warped space - time has become a vital tool in probing the cosmos.

As the faster of the two probes, Voyager 1 was poised to reach interstellar space first, but its instrument for measuring the solar wind had stopped functioning in 1980.

Her research concentration is in marine geophysics, where she has used a variety of remote sensing techniques from ships and space to probe the dynamics of the mantle and overlying plates far from plate boundaries on geologic time scales.

Tomorrow, the probe will spend its last full day in space snapping images of its greatest hits: Saturn and the rings, Titan, a small moon forming within the rings informally dubbed «Peggy,» the moon Enceladus, ring ripples called propellers and finally, the location of its own demise.

That level of fascination made sense in the days before telescopes could observe details in planetary atmospheres, before space probes had explored Mars and bulldozed into a comet, and before we understood the history of asteroid and comet collisions, linking celestial bodies large and small.

New space observatories, huge earthbound telescopes and a continent - sized radio array will probe the origins of stars, elements and the universe itself

It would focus on the composition and thickness of the ocean, already reckoned to be briny and rich in magnesium salts following previous observations of seeps to the surface by other space probes flying nearby.

That's the question concerning University of California, Irvine scientists probing a phenomenon called «space brain.»

The results were compared to observations carried out using the powerful Spitzer Space Telescope, probing our understanding of the conditions within the atmospheres of these planets.