Sentences with phrase «on space probes»

What the Common Core standards have recommended are texts like Abraham Lincoln's «Gettysburg Address»; the U.S. Constitution; the Declaration of Independence; Winston Churchill's «Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat» speech; Ronald Reagan's speech to the students of Moscow University; and a plethora of texts on science and technology, including ones on space probes, elementary particles, architecture, and engineering.

The Space Plasma Physics Research Programme carries out experimental research in space plasma physics using data from instruments on satellites, and in the future also on space probes.

Among their uses in a variety of specialized applications: generating power on space probes and cooling seats in fancy cars.

Russell suspects that ion propulsion was deemed too risky — it had never been used on a space probe.

The two scientists based their calculations on a space probe weighing less than 100 grams in total, which is mounted to a 100,000 - square - metre sail, equivalent to the area of 14 soccer fields.

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Lamar Smith (R. - Tx), who heads the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has demanded that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman turn over all communication since 2012 between his office and climate change campaigners whose research led to him opening his probe.

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

Seven other U.S. space probes have sailed past the gas giant on brief reconnaissance missions before heading elsewhere in the solar system.

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.

Particle accelerators and all the new telescopes and devices in space and on earth that probe the Universe are expensive things that may also have no practical purpose.

On 30 September, the European Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space rocOn 30 September, the European Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space rocon comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space space rock.

The NSF's Very Large Array radio telescope is getting a digital makeover that will give it the sensitivity to pick up a cell phone signal on Jupiter, and to probe deeper into outer space

On June 23, Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative to send spacecraft to another star system, launched half a dozen probes called Sprites to test how their electronics fare in outer space.

While we humans have only set foot on the planet we sprang from and one solitary moon, we've constructed probes, orbiters, and rovers to saunter out into space and send back their reports.

Deep - space missions such as NASA's veteran z Voyager probes often rely on gravity assists.

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.

While space agencies are planning to send more orbiters to study Jupiter and its moons in the next decade, probes remain impractical because the gas planet has no solid surface to land on.

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.

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.

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.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

One year ago, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygens probe finally landed on Titan, Saturn's moon, after a 7 - year journey aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the comet on Wednesday, 12 November, has not moved from its landing spot and so its solar panels are not getting enough sunlight.

The Hubble Space Telescope probed the quasars» light for information on the speed of the gas and whether the gas is moving toward or away from Earth.

NASA and the European Space Agency have launched probes that will visit comets, narrowing down the possible ingredients that might have been showered on early Earth.

When the letter claims that NASA space probes have spotted enormous forests on Mars and requests an investigation, you really take notice, though maybe not the way the writer had in mind.

«It will give us the facility to contribute to space missions probing for life on solar system bodies.»

NASA tried an ion engine once, on its experimental Deep Space 1 probe, but never followed up.

Although specifics are meager, the new budget would bolster earth sciences, keep on track a new rocket to replace the space shuttle after 2010, and provide more funding for robotic probes to visit other planets.

Unlike space probes, which pass through sterile space, ice drills must pass through thousands of feet of glacial ice loaded with microbes before they reach their target; therefore a microbial buildup on equipment and drilling fluids is «inevitable.»

There, the microscopically small grains of rock from the core are catapulted along with ice particles into space, where they were measured by the instruments on the Cassini space probe,» explained the Heidelberg planetary scientist.

A detector on the Cassini space probe was able to measure these particles.

The launch of the European space probe Rosetta, which must occur before the end of January in order to touch down on the comet, has now been postponed indefinitely.

In 1990 the probes took on a new duty: moving beyond the planets and into interstellar space.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory was a critical part of the space agency's effort to gather data on climate change, and the probe's failure is a major blow to earth scientists eager to collect more accurate data on carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.

The James Webb Space Telescope will probe the cosmos in wavelengths of light that astronomers on Earth can't see.

Also, a European Space Agency (ESA) orbiter, launched separately, would focus on the planet's largest moon Ganymede, while a Japanese probe would monitor Jupiter's magnetosphere.

IN JANUARY this year, the Indian space probe, Chandrayaan - 1, embarked on something of a nostalgia tour.

Back in the US, meanwhile, teams work flat out on plans for a $ 650 million space probe called the Joint Dark Energy Mission.

Eric Hébrard counts himself lucky to have worked on the European Space Agency's Huygens probe, which landed on Saturn's Moon Titan in January 2005.

Probing the finer details of those ancient, extragalactic stars» chemical structures would take many years, even with the most powerful telescopes on Earth or in space.

On its eight - year data gathering mission, Dawn will be the first space probe to visit and orbit two solar system bodies other than Earth

Five decades after the U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 moon probe became the first spacecraft to land on another celestial body, we look at the past accomplishments and tantalizing future of unmanned space exploration

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — After the Philae probe bounced its way to a tenuous, unanchored perch on a comet — a bittersweet victory for the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Rosetta mission — Fred Jansen cried in the control room.

Russia launched 16 space probes toward Venus as part of the Venera series between 1961 and 1983, including the only probes to ever successfully land on the surface of hellish planet.

The system was successfully tested on NASA's Deep Space 1 probe, which performed an asteroid flyby in 1999.

But he is not yet done: His instrument on Voyager 1 is now plumbing interstellar space, and he is planning on being a part of Solar Probe Plus, a spacecraft that will visit the sun's corona.

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

The European Space Agency's Venus Express space probe has now taken the first picture of the same phenomenon on another plSpace Agency's Venus Express space probe has now taken the first picture of the same phenomenon on another plspace probe has now taken the first picture of the same phenomenon on another planet.