Sentences with phrase «on a comet for»

In 2014, the world looked on eagerly as a probe landed on a comet for the first time, as a test flight brought humans one step closer to Mars, and as astronauts tweeted home striking images from space, giving those left behind on Earth the sense that they were along for the ride.

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The winners include Laura Deming, 17, who is developing antiaging therapies; Faheem Zaman, 18, who is building mobile payment systems for developing countries; and John Burnham, 18, who is working on extracting minerals from asteroids and comets.

A spiral galaxy (same goes for a spherical planet, a galaxy cluster, a comet) is shaped by forces big and small that rely on the physical properties of matter, energy, dark energy, and dark matter.

The Physics World «2014 Breakthrough of the Year» went to the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission1 for being the first to land a spacecraft (Philae) on a comet (67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko), on 12 November.

Just think about the size of the comet that would have to create something like that, not to mention all the other consequences that would arise from a massive impact of that nature (namely destruction of almost all life on earth except for deep, deep sea creatures).

Again, THE WORST THINGS ON TELEVISION, EVER MAYBE.they almost make me loath that the TV was even invented, the make me hope for a giant comet.

Careful or the world will end tomorrow, but you can feel free to put on your red space suit and special orange shoes before you swallow the «pill» and wait for the comet to come.

A flying drone to sniff out life on Titan and a spacecraft to return comet samples to Earth are finalists in NASA's search for its next interplanetary destination

In November that year, Rosetta's companion lander, Philae, made a bumpy touchdown and survived for a few days on the comet before being lost — though Rosetta did eventually find it again.

If sunlight must penetrate the dust covering a comet's water ice in order to warm it and produce jets, Sunshine says the Deep Impact findings suggest the ices on such dormant comets may not have run out but merely become sealed — by layers of debris, for example.

Two years ago, astronomers Lisa Randall and Matthew Reece of Harvard University fingered dark matter for a 35 million - year cycle — which they later revised to 32 million years — based on the birth dates of large craters from comet crashes.

That gave them some much - needed time to plan their next round of studies and to anticipate what to look for when the comet rounds the sun on Nov. 28.

Drawing on his data from the Hubble observations, Li estimates that the nucleus — the solid body of the comet itself — is no more than about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) across, smaller than what many astronomers initially expected for such an energetic comet.

«It's been looked for [on comets] spectroscopically with telescopes but the content seems so low you can't see it that way.»

The Pan-Starrs-1 telescope will scan the skies for asteroids and comets that could wipe out life on Earth.

On November 12th 2014 the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will eject the small robotic lander Philae on a trajectory that should take it down to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (or 67P / C - P for shortOn November 12th 2014 the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will eject the small robotic lander Philae on a trajectory that should take it down to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (or 67P / C - P for shorton a trajectory that should take it down to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (or 67P / C - P for short).

The next steps for studying the concept would be to do more high - fidelity simulations and try casting a mini-harpoon at a target that mimics the material found on a comet or asteroid.

She has traveled to the South Pole as part of a U.S. National Science Foundation program for journalists and been a passenger on NASA's infamous vomit comet.

For any spacecraft landing on a comet or asteroid, being able to slow down enough to arrive safely is critical.

Many of the things needed for life to get started have been found on meteorites or comets.

«Our comet is coming out of its deep - space slumber and beginning to put on a show for Rosetta's science instruments,» said Matt Taylor, Rosetta's project scientist from the European Space Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Despite seven months adrift and alone on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko since its bumpy landing last year, Philae is back and ready for science.

This proximity will provide an unprecedented opportunity for researchers to gather data on both the comet and its effect on the Martian atmosphere.

However, the legacy of the comet will go on for years as scientists analyze the tremendous data set collected during ISON's journey.

Over the next decade, Southwood's «cosmic vision» program calls for, among other goals, landing spacecraft on Mars, Mercury, Saturn's moon Titan, and a comet; observing the birth, evolution, and death of stars and galaxies at gamma ray and infrared wavelengths; studying the afterglow of the big bang; and mapping the positions and motions of nearly every star in the Milky Way.

The overall illumination conditions could improve for another couple months, as comet 67P approaches perihelion on 13 August, the closest point in its orbit around the sun.

The J landing spot, on the «head» of the comet, was chosen for having the smoothest surface, but that doesn't mean Rosetta's lander probe, Philae, will touch down without incident.

Planetary scientist H. Jay Melosh is of course correct that the Deep Impact probe will have a negligibly small effect on comet Tempel I's orbit [«Impact Geologist Waits for the Big One to Hit,» Discover Dialogue, July].

For these reasons, confirmed comet impacts on the earth are so far unknown.

Since January, temperatures on the comet have been too chilly for Philae's electronics; mission scientists stopped listening for radio signals from the lander in July.

The work was co-funded by the UK Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET) and STREVA, a research consortium aimed at finding ways to reduce the negative consequences of volcanic activity on people and their assets.

Initial projects (both theoretical and practical) include seeking evidence for the existence of biomolecules and cells in the upper atmosphere, as well as in comets and interstellar dust; looking for evidence of biological molecules and processes in material recovered from space; and investigating the effect of space conditions on living systems.

The introverted English scholar held off on publishing those findings for decades, though, and it took the Herculean efforts of friend and comet discoverer Edmund Halley to get Newton to publish.

The Rosetta spacecraft's final resting place could be on the comet it called home for over two years.

A persistent band of researchers has blamed this apparent disaster on the impact of a comet or asteroid, but a new study concludes that the real explanation for the chill, at least, may lie strictly with Earth - bound events.

«Actin can function as a track for myosin, or as a motor on its own via this comet tail mechanism.»

When the actin polymerization occurs at one spot on the surface of an autophagosome, which coincides with the location of WHAMM on these organelles, an actin comet tail is formed, and the rapid assembly / disassembly of the actin polymers «pushes» the autophagosome toward the lysosome for final processing.

Researchers centered at Tokyo's National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) and National Institute for Polar Research (NIPR) examined a detailed painting from a Japanese manuscript Seikai («understanding comets») with associated commentary describes a red aurora occurring over Kyoto on 17 September 1770.

«The loss of Contour would be a basic setback for the near future of cometary science,» says Gerhard Schwehm of the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, who is the project scientist for the European Rosetta mission to comet Wirtanen, due to be launched on 13 January 2003.

Radar data helped locate an approximate position for its final resting spot — somewhere just within the rim of the large crater on the head of the duck - shaped comet, what was once known as landing site «B.» Holger Sierks, principal investigator for the orbiter's camera, was waiting for images to be downloaded to Earth tonight that he thought would contain the lander.

I'm back at ESA's operation center for a second day, following Philae's harrowing, but ultimately successful landing on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

There the only stray radiation the observatory would have to compensate for would come from stars, the trace debris of comets and asteroids, and the telescope's own electronics (which would sit on a boom several yards away).

«The damage on the ground is expected to be zero,» writes astronomer Andrea Milan of the University of Pisa in Italy, on the Minor Planet Mailing List run for asteroid and comet researchers (groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/).

In general usage — a «volatile stock market,» for instance — the word connotes violence and variability, the equivalent of TNT detonating or frozen carbon dioxide vaporizing rapidly and forcefully on the surface of a comet.

A committee of the U.S. National Research Council released a sobering report today on the prospects for defending the home planet against near Earth objects (NEOs), the asteroids and comets that can cross Earth's orbit and hit us.

Chris Carr of Imperial College London, the principal investigator for a suite of instruments called the Rosetta Plasma Consortium, says he hopes theirs may be the first on the spacecraft to actually detect the comet as solar wind begins to blow gas off its surface and the sun's ultraviolet light ionizes it, leaving a trail of plasma.

It's been a busy time for NASA: Just before the first rover landed on Mars (page 10), the Stardust spacecraft achieved a dazzling double score, collecting pieces of comet Wild 2 (the first sample of a body beyond the moon) and sending back pictures of the comet's 3.1 - mile - wide icy core.

For more than 30 years, scientists have argued about a controversial hypothesis relating to periodic mass extinctions and impact craters — caused by comet and asteroid showers — on Earth.

Philae — the first spacecraft to ever land on a comet as part of the Rosetta mission — has gone silent again, and scientists fear that it may have stopped communicating for good.

Through the night of November 11 and into the morning of November 12, Rosetta and Philae will go through critical go - no - go tests in preparation for landing on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.