Sentences with phrase «other than the moon»

These observations also represent the closest celestial object Hubble has observed, other than the moon.

Since it is within Earth's gravitational pull, Hayabusa is the first spacecraft returning to Earth after landing on and lifting off a heavenly object other than the Moon.

Granted, great portions of the film have a lively, razor - sharp appearance here (all it takes is a decent light source other than the moon's natural luminescence), but the real saving grace of this presentation is the lossless audio.

Not exact matches

do you show respect for others believe... did you also put up on display the crescent moon because of of the dead Muslims or did you put the atom because of the dead atheists... you christian and hillier than tho..

After two weeks of making my Raw Snickers, chocolate tarts and all other chocolatey delights I was over the moon when a customer requested something other than the dark stuff (mainly so it meant I could have a break from licking that bloody bowl)!

Other amenities include Fantasy Suites, such as the Hardwood Suite, the only hotel room in the world with its own basketball court; the all - new Cantor Gaming race and sports book, one of the few sports books in Las Vegas to include a poker room; SOCIAL; Scarlet; tonic bar; newly upgraded Ghostbar; the Pearl Concert Theater; Moon Nightclub; the remodeled N9NE Steakhouse; Nove Italiano; Alizé; Simon Restaurant & Lounge; Chocolat Bistro; The View; Kim Vō Salon; Drift Spa & Hammam; Brenden Theatres, a 14 - theatre Cineplex; Palms Pool and more than 60,000 square - feet of meeting space.

I will be happy to eat my words and see Szcz fight for his spot, I will be over the moon if Szcz starts fighting again rather than appearing to be like «I've made it, it must be others not doing enough»...

The first Colonial team is set to kick off this fall, playing home games at nearby Moon High School Stadium while marching to the drum of none other than former New York Jet coach Joe Walton.

He wrote more than 100 books on physics, mathematics and astronomy, among other fields, and is believed to be the first to explain how our brains create the illusion of the moon appearing larger near the horizon.

Stedman argues that since there are more viruses on Earth — 10 to 100 times more than any other cellular organism — the same could be true on other planets and moons.

They developed a technique known as «best - matching,» in which the motion of an object (for instance, the moon) is tracked solely by its changing distance from other objects (like the sun and the Earth), rather than its changing location against a grid.

Saturn's moon Titan is the only moon in the solar system that has an atmosphere as thick as Earth's, consisting of more than 98 percent nitrogen, roughly 1.4 percent of methane, and smaller amounts of other gases.

It sits closer to Jupiter than any of the other large moons.

Its low density implies that it is about 80 per cent ice to only 20 per cent rock, a far lighter mixture than other large moons of...

Thanks to these unique features, Titan has been studied more than any moon other than Earth's, including numerous fly - bys by the Cassini probe, as well as the Huygens lander which touched down in 2004.

Titan, the largest of Saturn's more than 60 moons, is the other body in our solar system with a nitrogen - rich atmosphere that resembles ours.

If the other moons have similar compositions, they may have lower than expected masses, which means this and other collisions may happen in the more distant future.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

On the other hand, NEAs are most easily accessible for spacecraft from Earth; in fact, some can be reached with much less delta - v than it takes to reach the Moon.

Over the last quarter century or so, astronomers have confirmed more than 3,600 exoplanets — that's 3,600 - plus worlds in addition to the planets, moons and other heavenly bodies known in our own solar system.

Others think that the towering mountains, which may reach more than twice the height of Mount Everest, could be remnants of rings that once orbited the moon.

So, he says, is Europa, commonly known as a moon of Jupiter, and so is the Earth's moon, and so are more than 100 other celestial bodies in our solar system that are denied this status under the prevailing definition of «planet.»

Two worlds, other than the Earth and Pluto, have nitrogen atmospheres, but they are moons rather than planets: Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, and Triton.

In the geocentric view everything has to revolve around the Earth, but once you adopt the Copernican view it's okay for the universe to have more than one center, so we go around the Sun, the other planets go around the Sun, but these little moons around Jupiter.

The kind of asteroid needed to form the Martian dichotomy would fall in between that size and those of the rocks that formed other large craters, such as the South Pole — Aitken impact basin on the moon and the Hellas Basin in Mars's southern hemisphere, both more than 1,30 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide.

People snoozed less deeply within four nights of a full moon than during other parts of the lunar cycle, researchers report July 25 in Current Biology.

The moon's orbit is elliptical, meaning that at some points it's closer to our planet than others, causing its gravitational pull to fluctuate ever so slightly.

«Together with other results that suggest the Moon may have had more volatiles than previously thought, this research is revolutionizing our thinking about the early history of the planets and satellites,» said Jim Head, professor of geological sciences and a MESSENGER mission co-investigator.

The 2018 budget request cancels NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission — an Obama administration - era project to bring part of an asteroid near the moon so astronauts could visit the space rock and retrieve samples — but included no details on cancelation other than it was needed «to accommodate increasing development costs.»

Phobos orbits closer to a major planet than any other moon in the solar system, less than 6000 km (3728 miles) above the surface of Mars, and is also one of the smaller known moons in the solar system.

The team also found that Saturn moon Rhea is moving away 10 times faster than the other moons, which is the first evidence that a planet's dissipation factor can vary with its distance in relation to the moon.

The launch window to the moon, Mars or other points would occur far less often on the station than from the ground.

Due to the approximate alignment of the magnetic axis with the rotation axis, the energetic particle losses due to the moons are expected to be much more pronounced than the ones in the other outer planets (Roussos et al. 2007).

It also would be far easier to get a water sample from Enceladus, which has plumes of water vapor, ice and particles shooting more than 300 miles off its surface, than from other moons, such as Jupiter's Europa, where a massive ocean is believed to be buried beneath a thick icy crust.

It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid mission because Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!

Uranus has ten moons which lie closer to the planet's surface than the other moons.

Finally, Haumea is the only object in the Kuiper belt other than Pluto known to host more than one moon.

Beyond low Earth orbit, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Experiment (LADEE) will, among other things, attempt to discover the cause of a faint glow witnessed above the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago.

The bottom line of the hearing was strong support for human exploration of the Moon and Mars with scant attention to how it will be funded, other than Young's warning.

Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system.

The video also shows that Callisto, the outermost of the moons, is dimmer than the others, Bolton said.

Other than that, baby moon lets me know he's in there all day everyday with his gymnastics style flips and karate kicks and punches.

i can be solicited into trying a fruity shot once in a blue moon, but other than that i'm completely substance free, though i welcome waters and lemonades if you want to buy me a drink.

From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre.

Do you really expect a studio other than High Moon Studios to make a quality Transformers game?

It is often referred to as similar to Animal Crossing, but other than customization / collecting and being in real time, I'd say it's closer to Fantasy Life or Harvest Moon / Rune Factory.

Will Ferrell (Blades of Glory, Stranger Than Fiction), who seems determined to appear in a sports parody every other film, stars as Jackie Moon, the owner, coach and star player of the Tropics.

The mission of Apollo 13 was a continuation of the moon missions, but the world took little notice other than the obligatory, fast receding news reports.

Rainbow Moon is not a bad game, but the removal of some systems and the polishing of others would make is stand more than «the game with a ton of stuff to do.»

The adaptation, directed by Moon's Duncan Jones, was not well - received by critics and opened lower than other video game counterparts at the box office.