Sentences with phrase «own solar system»

As a propulsive lander, you can go anywhere in the solar system.

We were trying to avoid having to have the delta wing, but it was necessary in order to generalize the capability of the spaceship such that it could land anywhere in the solar system.

«I really don't know the odds, but the discovery of life elsewhere in our solar system would be so significant, we have to find out,» Pappalardo said.

But you can get a sense for the real scale of the solar system, how big the Sun is, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and then the little guys and on the right are Pluto and friends.

So Mars, the moons of Jupiter, see if we went to maybe even Venus — Venus will be a little trickier — but for most of the solar system, you only need the spaceship.

So Dragon should be capable of landing on any solid or liquid surface in the inner solar system.

Some researchers also think it may be possible to compare the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other chemicals in a plume to «default» levels seen in asteroids, which were formed at the dawn of the solar system — and ask if life is manipulating the chemistry there, or at least did so in the past.

So our options for going to... For becoming a multi-planet species within our solar system, are limited.

But by establishing a propellant depot, let's say, you know, Enceladus or Europa, or any — there's a few options — and then doing another one on Titan, Saturn's moon, and then perhaps another one further out on Pluto, or elsewhere in the solar system...

Well, just to sort of put things in perspective, this is what, this is an actual scale of what the solar system looks like.

For example, you can fit all of our solar system's planets in the space between the Earth and our moon.

The mass of the sun is 1.989 × 10 30 kilograms — 99.8 % of the entire solar system's mass.

«A decade or so ago, we had no idea there might be several global oceans within our solar system.

«The way energy metering is set up, it is very lucrative for people with solar systems and they are being funded by everyone else who doesn't have solar.

«But on galactic time scales, when you're creating stars and solar systems, that's not that much time.»

The M - KOPA Solar system is literally lighting up a cleaner, greener — and safer — future for one remote region of the world.

Some of my clients have invested in solar systems and taken advantage of this credit, and Congress recently extended the deadline for using this credit to December 2021.

All this points to the possibility that Enceladus is an ocean world harboring life, right here in our solar system.

Studying storms such as this and comparing them to similar events on other planets (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot) help scientists better understand weather patterns throughout the solar system, even here on Earth.

The environment of Earth is not a factor that would affect the colonization of our solar system, in my opinion.

That's equal to what 1,000 residential rooftop solar systems are capable of producing.

The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.

Geologic activity happening in real time is quite rare in the solar system.

Asteroids in our solar system are usually round and lumpy.

Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

Alone, each new image is pretty incredible: These are baby solar systems that may one day form Earth - like planets.

The enigmatic world may also contain clues about the origin of water on Earth and the solar system's formation.

The company said Wednesday that it plans to sell securities directly to individuals and others interested in investing in its rooftop solar systems.

(Our solar system is about 4.6 billion years old.)

The scientists used an instrument called SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- an array of four different telescopes run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)-- to take the new images of infant solar systems and their protoplanetary disks.

China has grown increasingly capable of exploring the solar system alongside NASA, ESA, Russia, India, and other space - faring nations.

«Until we find other solar systems that want to drink Starbucks and watch Cirque du Soleil, planet earth is a finite place.»

Astronomers who studied these images eventually realized that the nascent solar system had twisted inner and outer disks, not just one flat disk, and the moving material was causing the shadows, much like a bird flying in front of a lighthouse's lamp.

SolarCity pays to install and maintain rooftop solar systems for homes or businesses in exchange for monthly payments for the power that the panels produce.

It could help scientists find answers to the very big, very unanswered questions about the origins of the solar system.

Below is another SPHERE image of a new solar system.

«One Strange Rock,» a National Geographic television series that debuted on March 26th, sets out to show viewers what makes the Earth unique among other planets in the solar system, and the conditions it took to foster life on the planet.

KBOs are so far away from the sun, they're almost perfectly frozen samples of the material leftover from the Solar System's formation some 4.6 billion years ago.

«If Jupiter or Neptune had migrated inward after the terrestrial planets formed, it seems unlikely that our Solar System would have an Earth, or any of the terrestrial planets at all,» he told Phys.org.

However, this is the first photo of both worlds ever taken in a single frame, when Voyager 1 was 7.25 million miles away — en route to its «grand tour» of the solar system.

NASA scientists on Monday announced the discovery of 219 new objects beyond our solar system that are almost certainly planets.

An enduring puzzle about exoplanets, Phys.org writes, is why they are often much closer to their stars than the planets in our own solar system.

Vanadium and uranium explorer Yellow Rock Resources has formed a new subsidiary with an unnamed local solar system installer to sell vanadium - based batteries in Australia.

Instead, the payload overshot, exceeding the red planet's spot in the solar system, and is headed toward the Asteroid Belt that's between Mars and Jupiter.

Advocates counter that the higher the concentration of rooftop solar systems in a neighborhood, the less a utility has to spend on distribution to shore up grid reliability.

SunPower said in June it would it would offer solar systems with battery storage to 300 New York homeowners in what would serve as a «virtual power plant» to utility Con Edison.

As a result SolarCity and others decided to stop selling rooftop solar systems in the state because they said the economics no longer made sense.

We may well be standing at a similar technological tipping point as researchers develop the vision and technologies that could launch humanity into the solar system.

Distributed solar systems require additional upgrades to the power grid, including enabling the grid to operate in both directions, and most utilities are pushing back against covering those upgrade expenses.

If he succeeds, Musk could thoroughly transform our relationship with our solar system, inspiring a new generation of scientists and engineers along the way.