Sentences with phrase «orbit near the moon»

There was also a mock - up of the robotic spacecraft that would be used to capture an asteroid and bring it into a stable orbit near the moon.

Not exact matches

He and his colleagues analyze information gathered by a group of ESA satellites whose looping orbits carry them from near Earth to about one - third of the way toward the moon.

Evidence for Jovian seas comes from the Galileo spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since 1995 and periodically swoops near its moons.

You know, for instance around Earth, you can think of gravity as forming a kind of a well around Earth, which causes the things that pass near Earth, the moon I would say, which is orbiting on its path, to stay within the vicinity because it falls into that gravity well, metaphorically speaking; and in likewise the same way this astronaut that is fictitiously described by our good mathematics professor takes a journey through curved spacetime.

NASA currently envisions the first two SLS flights, EM - 1 and 2, as part of the agency's Asteroid Initiative mission proposal, which aims to robotically redirect a small Near - Earth Asteroid into orbit around the Moon by the end of the decade, to be later visited by human crews.

Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, shoots water near the farthest point in its orbit from Saturn, when the tidal forces cause cracks at the moon's south pole to open.

Recent models of this process predict that the orbit of the newly formed Moon should be in, or very near [less than 1 °], the Earth's equatorial plane.

The Moon orbits around the entire planet, Lunar cycles are too intricate, they would be damn near impossible to replicate without any sort of occasional mishap, even with the advanced technology.

It's 2154, and the elite of this planet, apparently great fans of Larry Niven's Ringworld, have fled to a gated community in the sky, which floats like a second moon in near orbit (and which can be reached surprisingly quickly via a nifty shuttle system — my how technology will have improved in 140 years!).

I saw of graph of the precession cycle once and it appeared to occasionally skip a beat — perhaps when eccentricity got near zero — this makes some intuitive sense at least... (cause of Obliquity cycle is less obvious than precession of axis; perhaps some contribution comes from the Earth - Moon orbit and Earth + Moon — Sun orbit not being in the same plane — although the Moon's orbit will «average» near the plane of the Earth - Sun orbit over a relatively short time, but there's lunar orbit eccentricity, etc,... residuals might build up...?