Sentences with phrase «on space rocks»

When Planetary Resources actually begins sending its first robotic prospectors to asteroids, the company will concentrate on space rocks that are relatively close to Earth, rather than heading out into the more distant Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The short distance between worlds also means microbes could planet - hop on space rocks, as described in a June study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Asteroid mining is still in its infancy — no would - be miners have managed to land on a space rock, much less harvest the water and metals locked away inside of it.

[Photos: Asteroid Vesta and NASA's Dawn Spacecraft] Earlier photos of Vesta have zeroed in on intriguing features on the space rock's surface, including the boundary between the day and night sides.

Not exact matches

Feel your heart beat and listen to the voice of your love ones and see for yourself that Jesus is real, and that two big rocks colliding in outer space did not and couldn't create you me or anything else on this planet.You see your denial of him will not change his love for you nor his existence.

We are nothing but a minute bunch of ants crawling on a wet rock flying through space.

John Morressy's The Mansions of Space begins with a free trader named Jod Enskeline landing on Peter's Rock, a quasi-Catholic world settled around the Monastery of the Holy Sepulcher.

The couple helped the punk rock legend's family find a place in a quiet neighborhood, with plenty of room for a rehearsal space and walls for hanging shiplap — all on a budget of course.

We're flying through space on this rock at... ungodly... speeds.

Essentially a Law sounds like it is written in stone but a theory is written in stone but there is more space to add onto it on that rock.

We're on a fucking rock in the middle of space like every other rock out there.

Then again I guess you could make the argument that every rock on Earth is technically space rock at one point or another when we first formed so I guess I continually get my wish every second I take a step, but lets just say for arguments sake that rocks that didn't form on earth are pretty neat.

For a rock song or a symphony, a ballet score or a ballad, much depends on handling the space between tensions and postponed resolutions in ways that can satisfy the desire for resolution while also being open - ended enough to sustain the expectation of, and desire for, more.

A tree can be said to have a definite position in time and space, and a rock dropped from a window will fall at a predictable rate to a predictable spot on the ground.

His gift is putting moves on you to get into the open space and running that rock.

Scott Parker was losing stamina and eventually France found more space to have a go on Joe Hart's goal from distance but again could not create clear cut opportunities as English defense was rock solid.

Whether you're trying to identify your dream, forge a new path, or confirm that you're on the right one, Dare, Dream, Do will inspire you to rock your personal space and also think beyond it — whether that means paying it forward, creating collaborative teams, or showing your children how to dream.»

We also use medium Sling Rings on our slings to create rock solid grip to minimize adjusting while wearing, as well as taking up less space on a caregiver's chest.

Plus, the Rock N» Play and Space Saving High Chair are essentials on our Budget Baby Registry, so you know you're making a smart investment with this set.

Or, choosing a more compact convertible crib may give you added space for a glider and ottoman set, so you can rock baby in comfort during late night feedings without having to shuffle into the living room (and risk waking a snoozing baby on the way back!).

A Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said Thursday that rocks from the White Cliffs of Dover and the California coastline, as well as silt from rivers tumbling into the ocean, are contributing to high sea levels globally.

In 2012, an amateur fossil hunter found a slab of rock covered in ancient footprints on the campus of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, The Washington Post reports.

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 finding confirms suspicions raised by a different experiment in 2012 that also suggested space rocks were not the source of water on the surface of the moon.

If so, then Rusty Schweickart is exactly the guy you want on your side when the enemy is a giant space rock.

While space rocks hurtling in from space threaten to deal modern life a mortal blow, meteorite impacts during Earth's early history may have played a pivotal role in kick - starting life on the planet.

The entry and crash would release iridium from the space rock, and iridium would waft across the globe and settle on Earth's surface, eventually becoming part of the very rock Alvarez held in his hand.

Or perhaps a microbe - bearing rock was hurled by an impact into space and landed on Venus or Mars, which may have been more hospitable to life billions of years ago.

The likelihood that one of these space rocks poses a real threat to human lives may be low — researchers at Prince - ton University have placed 1 - in - 5,000 odds on an asteroid two - thirds of a mile across smacking into Earth sometime in the next century (for comparison, the risk that you will be struck by lightning in your lifetime is about 1 in 3,000)-- but the stakes are high.

In that case, the ice seen on the surface now would once have been buried beneath dust and rock that insulated it from the sun's heat and prevented it from escaping into space.

But NASA is in a budget crunch, so space - rock hunters are pinning their hopes on two earthbound projects.

«The uncanny consistency of this stellar remnant offers intriguing evidence that the fundamental force of gravity — the big «G» of physics — remains rock - solid throughout space,» said Weiwei Zhu, an astronomer formerly with the University of British Columbia in Canada and lead author on a study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.

When a rock from space crashed to ground 38 million years ago, it briefly heated the impact zone to 2370 °C, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth's crust

After a brush with death last month, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is back on track for an encounter with a hurtling hunk of space rock.

Then, on Christmas morning in 2004, Bard was clearing what she thought might be the back wall of a rock shelter when she stuck her hand through the sand into an open space.

Because of its gravity, for instance, it has regulated the rate of cosmic impacts on Earth: flinging asteroids in our direction yet also clearing many hazardous space rocks out of our way.

But in the vast emptiness of Antarctica, spotting these space rocks can be as easy as black on white.

Like an unseen spider visibly tugging on a web of gravitational strings, a hidden celestial body is luring distant space rocks into clusters of orbits too conspicuous to ignore.

Space rocks are much more brittle than Earth rocks, suggesting that asteroids on a collision course are more likely to burn up as fireballs in the sky

With the Rosetta spacecraft in tow, the space rock will make its closest approach to the sun on August 13.

If the IRTF can detect the space rock, it can provide a wealth of detailed data on spectral type, reflectivity and expected composition.

There is no doubt that massive space rocks have the potential to harm life on Earth — just ask the dinosaurs.

Research Topic 1 Origin and Evolution of Planetary Systems Research Topic 2 Origins of Organic Compounds in Space Research Topic 3 Rock - Water - Carbon Interactions, Organic Synthesis on Earth, and Steps to Life Research Topic 4 Life and Habitability Research Topic 5 Biosignatures as Facilitating Life Detection

Space rocks larger in diameter than Utah bombarded the early Earth, probably repeatedly eradicating emerging life on the planet's surface.

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.

So any rocks you see on the surface of these thick ice sheets in Antarctica have to come from space.

Luckily, the longest lasting effects of this close planetary shave (the most destructive since the Tunguska impact of 1908) may just be a renewed public focus on dangerous space rocks.

LIFE will test an idea called transpermia, in which organisms «could be ejected off one planet in impacts, travel through space inside rocks, then be deposited on another world», says Bruce Betts, LIFE's lead scientist.

A computer model based on these figures was used to estimate the space rock's orbital path.

Icy volcanoes on Enceladus launch huge jets of gas and icy grains that contain fine particles of rock into space.