Sentences with phrase «on asteroids»

Wait did nt he also say you can land on asteroid.

One major change was canceling the space agency's earlier plan to return to the moon and replacing it with the goal of landing humans on an asteroid by 2025.

The mountain at the center of a 300 - mile - wide crater on the asteroid's surface is particularly awe - inspiring.

«Unless the metal [was] mined on an asteroid, I do not know why it should cost that amount,» she said.

So that incident with me and the gun on the asteroid....

«A lot of people thought I was crazy for applying to an earth - science group after doing my Ph.D. on an asteroid,» she says.

It will also employ a hopping robot, which can move around on the asteroid's surface.

Data collected on the asteroid allowed scientists to piece together its orbital trajectory to a high degree of accuracy.

So that incident with me and the gun on the asteroid - Let's keep that under wraps all right?

Most contemporary NT scholars do not believe in the Second Coming so apparently there is no concern about JC coming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors / rapture.

Living up to all the ambitions of its official name, OSIRIS - REx would explore the origins of asteroids and thus the solar system itself, connect spectral colors observable from Earth to specific minerals on the asteroid, identify potential resources such as water for rocket fuel, help evaluate the threat of asteroids to Earth, and return some regolith (asteroid soil) for detailed analysis.

They've nailed the whole feeling of landing on an asteroid with a mining colony on it.

«The first trillionaire there will ever be is the person who exploits the natural resources on asteroids,» he says.

Santiago's work on Asteroid Challenge includes the logo design and user interface graphics.

Japan's Hayabusa probe will land on asteroid Itokawa in the summer of 2005, then lift off and return a sample to Earth two years later.

GAME: Luminara, a much better take on Asteroids much better.

Our team on Asteroid Challenge consists of just myself, Tommy Scott, a single freelance artist, Santiago Iborra, and some dedicated playtesters.

Still, Chapman says, he would not be surprised to see water ice on asteroids, adding that the distinction between comets, traditionally considered to be icy, and asteroids, which have been largely thought of as rocky, is becoming increasingly blurred.

The game takes place on an asteroid.

Gemini, the ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, and other observatories trained their eyes on the asteroid.

The decision was about scientific merit and risk, says Jim Green, NASA's planetary division director in Washington, D.C. Psyche and Lucy will use tested instruments on asteroids with no atmospheres to contend with.

It also validates the concept of panspermia, the idea that life might have hopscotched through our solar system — or others — by hitching a ride on asteroids or comets.

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland: «Planetary Object Geophysical Observer (POGO),» a secondary payload that is a hopper to be dropped on the asteroid surface by the Asteroid Retrieval Vehicle to measure elemental composition of asteroid regolith at multiple locations.

He also adds: «The tidal effect on an asteroid, which rapidly rotates under the gravitational field of a planet, can fragment these objects or release large rocks from its surface, which could then become such dangerous projectiles at a local scale as the one fell in Cheliábinsk (Russia) on February 15th 2013.»

The United States has spent less on asteroid detection over the past 15 years than the production budget of the 1998 asteroid movie Armageddon.

On March 21, 2012, the Dawn Mission team revealed that they had detected unusual bright and dark spots on the asteroid.

The Yarkovsky effect is a force on an asteroid when it absorbs sunlight and then radiates it back into space as heat.

In 2003 controllers at Johns Hopkins University landed the NEAR spacecraft on the asteroid Eros, proving we could do it and giving us a huge leg up on a mission that would push an asteroid out of its orbit by landing on it and setting off a rocket engine.

So he joined up with a collaboration headquartered at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, known for small, innovative projects like the NEAR probe, which eventually performed a soft landing on the asteroid Eros in 2001.

An asteroid circling the sun between Mars and Jupiter harbors water ice and organic compounds on its surface — the first time such components have been discovered on asteroids.

Other major meetings attended by section officers were the EUROPLANET N3 Strategic Workshop «Stellar Occultation Studies» in Paris and Meeting on Asteroids and Comets in Europe in Vienna.

Ever since Universal picked up the rights to develop a full - length film based on Asteroids, I've kept an eye out for examples of anyone attaching a plot to the simple, vector - based game, like the hilarious Asteroids radio drama that Kid Stuff recorded in the early 80s.

Legend has it that arcade operators had to mod the quarter boxes on Asteroids cabinets in order to hold the small fortunes gamers were pumping into them.

After this the images below appeared and Ancel wrote that some of the places the team has been looking at include «Secret Pirate lairs on asteroids; spaceports; dormant volcanic craters; Black markets in city slums; Treacherous mining operations; Lush valleys with sacred temples; and Legendary treasures hidden in uncharted territories across space.»

Gustavo Ramirez Lozano working in a University of Toronto lab on asteroid - mining robotics equipment.

Owing to his combined expertise, he spoke at a 1992 Los Alamos National Lab conference on asteroid defense.

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Breakthrough Listen, which is engaged in an ambitious mission to search one million nearby stars, and 100 galaxies for evidence of technologically advanced alien species, has tasked the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, located in West Virginia, with collecting data on the asteroid across four radio bands, from 1 — 12 GHz, over the course of an initial 10 - hour period.

(Water that's present on asteroids is something that could be particularly valuable for space use.)

And Deep Space Industries, another Silicon Valley startup, thinks it can land robotic landers on an asteroid within three years — and wants to build an entire space city within 30.

The U.S. government's strategy is now looking at putting man on an asteroid.

(In fact, our insatiable pursuit of gold might one day soon take us to space, as President Barack Obama signed legislation in November that permits commercial mineral extraction on asteroids and the moon.

Assume you're correct on the asteroids.

In NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist she worked on the Asteroid Grand Challenge, a large - scale effort designed to identify asteroid threats by collaborating with government agencies, industry, academia, and citizen scientists to track potentially hazardous asteroids.

A year on this asteroid (364 days) is almost exactly the same as a year on Earth, meaning they both orbit the sun at about the same distance.

Second, while orbiting Bennu OSIRIS - REx will measure the intensity of the Yarkovsky effect — the impact of heat on the asteroid's motion.

A linked theory has it that polarised starlight can preferentially destroy right - handed amino acids on asteroids, though this alone can not explain the strength of the bias on meteorites.