Sentences with phrase «orbit over the poles»

Above all, it will be in orbit around the sun, trailing behind Earth, whereas Corot is in low Earth orbit over the poles.

Not exact matches

Close encounters with Saturn's largest moon, Titan, have allowed navigators to use the moon's gravity to reorient the probe's orbit so that it could swing over Saturn's poles.

For 20 months, Juno will repeatedly skim the cloud tops, looping over the poles on orbits that are almost perpendicular to Jupiter's equator.

The telescope will complete one orbit around the Earth every 101 minutes by passing over each of Earth's poles.

Modeling Pluto's temperatures showed that when averaged over Pluto's 248 - year orbit, the latitudes near 30 degrees north and south emerged as the coldest places, far colder than either pole.

Larger sails can thrust against Earth's gravity and not even be in orbit around the Earth, and a pole sitter could sit continuously over Earth's poles and can provide continuous data on the polar ice caps.

The Earth's orbit grows slowly more and less elliptical, even as the angle of the planet's axial tilt, and the wobble of the poles as the planet spins (much like what you see with a spinning top), also change slightly over thousands of years.