Sentences with phrase «orbit around»

Mars» orbit around the sun is markedly elliptical; the close approaches to Earth can range from 35 million miles to 63 million miles.

But many candidate Earth - sized worlds are in orbit around red dwarf stars, much smaller and cooler than our own.

How far they travel into space depends on their speed, and slower neutrons don't travel far enough to be seen by particle detectors in orbit around Earth.

The new look SIRTF will be considerably smaller, and instead of orbiting the Earth it will be fired into a heliocentric orbit — following the Earth in an orbit around the Sun.

After collecting a multi-ton boulder from the asteroid, the robotic spacecraft will slowly redirect the boulder to an orbit around the moon, using the moon's gravity for an assist, where NASA plans to conduct a series of proving ground missions in the 2020s.

Next summer, NASA's Juno spacecraft is scheduled to enter into an orbit around Jupiter, kicking off a one - year mission to map and explore Jupiter's atmosphere.

Entering orbit around the ringed world, the spacecraft will drop a probe into the atmosphere of Titan, a Mercury - size moon cloaked in an opaque organic haze and possibly covered with hydrocarbon seas.

Just weeks before the historic encounter of comet C / 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) with Mars in October 2014, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft entered orbit around the Red Planet.

Forty years ago, in December of the troubled year of 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders piloted the Apollo 8 spacecraft into orbit around the moon, the first humans ever to circle any globe but our own.

After the spacecraft arrives and enters into orbit around the dwarf planet, it will study the intriguing world in great detail.

The one - ton probe will enter orbit around Mars in August or September 2010 (assuming Russia's schedule does not slip) and begin studying Phobos remotely.

Then, astronomers may be able reschedule some of their planned VLBA measurements, Reid says, but with some loss of accuracy because Earth will have passed an optimal point in its orbit around the sun.

To date, all exoplanets discovered in orbit around double stars are gas giants, similar to Jupiter, and are thought to form in the icy regions of their systems.

Astronomers now know of around 4000 planets in orbit around other stars.

The other is the length of Earth's orbit around the sun, or year length, which can then be broken into smaller units.

These gamma rays must overcome significant obstacles to escape Cygnus X-3 and reach telescopes in orbit around Earth.

Another is the annual wobble, related to Earth's orbit around the sun.

New observations suggested that two planets, each about the size of Saturn, are in orbit around the star.

These swarms follow a looping orbit around the sun; the apparent source of the meteors, known as the radiant, marks the direction from which they hit us.

In 1993, NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer satellite, presumed to have been disabled by an explosion in a fuel line as the craft tried to slip into orbit around the Red Planet.

It settled into orbit around Vesta last summer; in late August it is scheduled to leave the asteroid and begin a two - and - a-half-year voyage to Ceres.

It forms a close binary with another massive star within the open cluster, meaning that the two orbit around a shared centre of mass.

Dawn will spend the first half of 2012 in a snug, 120 - mile - high orbit around Vesta, taking detailed images and examining the asteroid's composition.

The scientific instruments have been shut off and the final command sequence for going into orbit around Jupiter has been uploaded to the spacecraft's computers.

Nearly every one of these exoplanets has been discovered in orbit around a mature star with a fully evolved planetary system.

The scientific instruments have been shut off and the final command sequence for going into orbit around Jupiter has...

Schmidt is part of a team of scientists in the early stages of developing a NASA mission, called Europa Clipper, which will investigate these questions by placing a reconnaissance spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter.

En route, a malfunctioning power system has allowed the craft's rocket propellant to freeze so that ground controllers are now unable to carry out the prolonged firing needed to put Nozomi in the intended orbit around Mars.

This is the first time ion engines have been used to send a spacecraft into orbit around a distant object in the solar system.

The best information on the planet is expected to come after 18 March 2011, when Messenger enters orbit around Mercury, where it will operate for at least a year.

The spacecraft would carry six astronauts; three would land on the surface, while three would remain in orbit around Mars.

Juno carries no instrument capable of directly measuring such asymmetries, but they should manifest as subtle alterations in the spacecraft's motion as it moves through its 53 - day polar orbit around the planet.

Normally, to maintain a simple circular orbit around an object, a rocket needs to find an exact balance between its tendency to fly outward into space and its inward attraction toward the moon or planet it circles.

NASA is assessing two concepts to robotically capture and redirect an asteroid mass into a stable orbit around the moon.

Researchers hope to learn more after the probe enters orbit around the Sun - baked planet.

To provide the necessary warning time, Carrington - L5 will utilize a gravitational balance point, known as L5, which would allow it to trail the Earth in its orbit around the Sun by about 150 million kilometres.

Gathering that data is the mission of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, a 4,800 - pound probe now in elliptical orbit around the Red Planet.

The manoeuvre was the second of three flybys designed to place the probe into orbit around Mercury in 2011.

With hundreds of satellites operating in orbit around Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, it's easy to imagine that communication channels might become overwhelmed with data from the satellites.

That's the latest result from Juno, a NASA spacecraft in orbit around the gas giant since 2016.

Unlike every other major satellite of every other planet in our solar system, our moon ignores the axis of its parent planet and instead circles in nearly the same plane that Earth and the other planets orbit around the sun, offset by slightly over five degrees.

We've sent five probes whizzing past it and parked one in a long - term orbit around it, but we just keep running into bigger puzzles.

NASA hopes to use Venus as a brake, taking advantage of its gravitational field to keep Messenger from careering past Mercury and into orbit around the sun.

The rocky world of roughly Earth's mass is in a tight orbit around its dim star, located in its «habitable zone.»

The spacecraft's ion engines will bring it to a capture orbit around this 590 mile diameter dwarf planet on March 6th, 2015 — at a distance some 2.5 times further from the Sun than the Earth.

At 1 A.M. Eastern time on July 16, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will become the first man - made probe to enter orbit around a so - called main - belt asteroid.

Simulations indicate that, given Rhea's size and distant orbit around Saturn, this moon could potentially hang on to a ring for millions of years or more before the planet's pull overcomes Rhea's hold.

Surprisingly, initial calculations showed that it loops in an irregular, elongated orbit around Earth with a period of about 7 weeks.

In practice, this means observing a planet for at least one full orbit around the Sun.

Fact two: Mercury completes its orbit around the sun in only 88 Earth days.