Sentences with phrase «permanent lunar»

By coincidence, the south polar region of the moon - a 1,500 - mile - wide depression known as the Aitken Basin - is where the first permanent lunar base is most likely to be built.

Or in October, when NASA officially opened its second permanent lunar base with a live BrainSync between honorary Moon President Neil deGrasse Tyson and a select group of fans who won the chance to access portions of his long - term memory through a QuantumWeb sweepstakes?

For a permanent lunar base, such mechanical failures could spell disaster.

Our primary objective is to establish a permanent lunar presence while seeking data on local water and other resources that will enable future lunar development.

One of the big limiting factors in plaguing future space missions is lifting off from Earth with all the supplies, fuel, spacecraft and equipment humans would need to establish a permanent lunar base or field a Mars mission.

Not exact matches

If a permanent base is established, Lowman envisions constructing at least four optical astronomical sites - two 180 degrees apart on the moon's equator and one each at the lunar north and south poles.

The effects of these forces flattened the Moon slightly at its poles and solidified a permanent bulge in the lunar crust, creating the feature known as the fossil bulge.

I was merely trying to figure how area such solar panel array would take up and this had nothing to do with costs but checking to see if it took up more area or somewhere close to areas of «peaks of eternal light»: «NASA and Europe revealed a small number of illuminated ridges within 15 km from the pole, each of them much like an island of no more than a few hundred meters across in an ocean of eternal darkness, where a lander could receive near - permanent lighting (~ 70 — 90 % of time in lunar winter, likely 100 % in lunar summer).»