Sentences with phrase «reach planet earth»

The crew and the scientists soon realise they have a new mission to destroy the creature in the spaceship before it reaches planet Earth.

Not exact matches

In July and August of 2020 the positions of Earth and Mars are aligned in a way that will mean less power is required to reach the red planet compared to other times.

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.

To circle Earth from about 250 miles up, a spacecraft must reach a blistering speed of 17,500 mph, meaning it orbits the planet once every 90 minutes.

The upcoming flights are designed to reach altitudes of more than 65 miles above Earth, high enough to see the curvature of the planet set against the blackness of space.

For everyone presently alive to reach present U.S. levels of consumption would require four more planet Earths, even if there were the social and political will.

Some prophetic voices tell us that we have only a few years to make vital and far - reaching decisions — or else human existence on this planet will come to a tragic end long before the earth is swallowed by a dying sun.

Is it not conceivable that Mankind, at the end of its totalization, its folding - in upon itself, may reach a critical level of maturity where, leaving Earth and stars to lapse slowly back into the dwindling mass of primordial energy, it will detach itself from this planet and join the one true, irreversible essence of things, the Omega point?

Explicitly or by inference they talk as though Man today had reached a final and supreme state of humanity beyond which he can not advance; or, in the language of this lecture, that, Matter having attained in Homo sapiens its maximum of centro - complexity on Earth, the process of super-molecularization on the planet has for good and all come to a stop.

With the planet apparently on track to have 4 billion wireless subscribers by 2010, let's take a second to look at the effects of the one piece of electronic equipment that will eventually reach just about everyone on Earth.

Upon reaching the Red Planet, you'd wait up to two years for Earth and Mars to be at their closest before your return trip, which would last another six to nine months.

ESPRESSO's sensitivity could put Earth - like planets within reach — and rejuvenate the radial velocity technique

The rest of Earth's interior remains as frustratingly out of reach as it was three centuries ago, when astronomer Edmond Halley suggested that our planet was hollow and filled with life.

On Earth, the plant pigment chlorophyll absorbs the most abundant and highest - energy colors that reach the planet's surface — red and blue, respectively — while reflecting green, giving vegetation its color.

According to a year's worth of data sent back from the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter launched in November 2005, the second planet from the sun is nothing like Earth — from its torrid surface to the upper reaches of its acid - laced atmosphere.

That mount faced away from Earth, preventing their signals from reaching the planet.

Reaching the necessary level of precision requires correcting the data for small perturbations in Earth's orbit owing to the other planets in our solar system.

Prior to 2007 scientists weren't sure what emissions reduction goal to shoot for, but new evidence led researchers to reach consensus on 350 ppm if we wished to have a planet, in the words of NASA climatologist James Hansen, «similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.»

After comparing it with domes on Earth, scientists now believe Ahuna Mons formed when a slushy mix of internal ice and natural antifreeze reached the surface along a duct — just as magma builds volcanoes on our planet.

«We are reaching the limit of what the Kepler project has to offer regarding the prevalence of potentially Earth - like planets,» says Kepler team member Joe Twicken, an astronomer and study co-author at the SETI Institute.

It found that small particles existing at 150 km or higher above Earth's surface could be knocked beyond the limit of Earth's gravity by space dust and eventually reach other planets.

A paper in this week's Science, using 10 days of early data gathered by Kepler, demonstrates the spacecraft's ability to spot large planets and provides encouragement that Earth - size bodies are within its reach.

The atmosphere of Mars, though much thinner that Earth's, will shield NASA Mars rovers Opportunity and Curiosity from comet dust, if any reaches the planet.

Astronomers have further constrained the likely whereabouts of Planet Nine: the planet that, if it exists, is more massive than the Earth and roams the outer reaches of the solar sPlanet Nine: the planet that, if it exists, is more massive than the Earth and roams the outer reaches of the solar splanet that, if it exists, is more massive than the Earth and roams the outer reaches of the solar system.

The structure of the heliosphere plays a big role in how particles from interstellar space — called cosmic rays — reach the inner solar system, where Earth and the other planets are.

Prospects for Venusian life have been dismissed because of harsh conditions on the planet's surface: there is no water, temperatures reach 477 °C and the atmospheric pressure is 92 times that on Earth's surface.

Reaching for the Stars The enterprise got a boost on Aug. 24 when astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile announced the discovery of an Earth - like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, one of three stars in the Alpha Centauri system.

While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.

The planet's climate ultimately becomes altered when these gases start to affect the amount of energy from the sun that is allowed to reach Earth's surface or is stored in the atmosphere.

Named K2 - 229b, the planet is almost 20 % larger than Earth but has a mass which is over two - and - a-half times greater - and reaches a dayside temperature of over 2000 °C (2330 Kelvin).

The Perseid shower reaches its peak once a year, in mid-August, when Earth's orbit carries the planet through the debris stream left behind by Comet Swift - Tuttle, a 26 - kilometer body that sheds ice and dust as it orbits the sun.

The beam's energy, although strong enough to affect overflying airplanes, which have an operating ceiling of about 26 kilometers (in Earth's stratosphere), is too diffuse by the time it reaches the ionosphere, part of the planet's upper atmosphere.

The answer is that before the sunlight reaches Earth, it first has to travel through our atmosphere, which is a layer of gas made up of tiny molecules of mostly nitrogen and oxygen that surrounds our planet.

Background The majority of light that reaches Earth from space comes from the sun, which is our planet's principle light source.

The Phoenix Mars Lander, which left Earth in August, is expected to reach the Red Planet next May, and NASA plans to launch the Mars Science Lab in 2009.

Venus Express was launched in November 2005 and reached Venus in April 2006, initiating the most comprehensive investigation of Earth's sister planet to date.

If comparatively more bluish or reddish light reaches a planet's surface than on Earth, photosynthetic plant - type life may may not be greenish in color, because such life will have evolved to different pigments in order to optimize their use of available and so color the appearance of the planet's land surfaces accordingly.

The orbiter is still circling the Red Planet after more than a decade in space, but lander Beagle 2 lost contact with Earth in December 2003 before it reached the surface.

The MARSIS instrument is one of seven science experiments riding aboard Mars Express, which launched from Earth on June 2, 2003 and reached the red planet in December of that year.

Models have predicted that planets forming here should quickly reach a mass of 10 Earth masses by accumulating most of the solid material in the vicinity.

Named K2 - 229b, the planet is almost 20 % larger than Earth but has a mass which is over two - and - a-half times greater — and reaches a dayside temperature of over 2000 °C (2330 Kelvin).

The proposals include blocking more of the sun's rays from reaching Earth and removing carbon dioxide from our planet's atmosphere.

Reaching Mercury from Earth poses significant technical challenges, since the planet orbits so much closer to the Sun than does the Earth.

We find that the global false positive rate of Kepler is 9.4 %, peaking for giant planets (6 - 22 Earth radii) at 17.7 %, reaching a low of 6.7 % for small Neptunes (2 - 4 Earth radii), and increasing again for Earth - size planets (0.8 - 1.25 Earth radii) to 12.3 %.

This reduces the amount of solar energy that reaches the Earth's surface, resulting in a cooling effect on the planet.

With volcanically sourced hydrogen on planets, this could extend the solar system's habitable zone reach to 2.4 times the Earth - sun distance — about where the asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter.

The beams that would have to be regularly targeted at the craft could, the theory goes, move far beyond and reach Earth intermittently as FRBs, disrupted by the movement of distant galaxies and planets.

On October 19 at 11:27 am PDT, Siding Spring reached its closest point to Mars, passing within 87,000 miles (139,500 km) of the planet or about a third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around 79 Ceti may be centered around 1.41 AUs — within the inner reaches of the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 611 days (or 1.67 years).

But we will reach an and involve much larger groups: Our results will find their way to the courses we teach and we will also build up a team of Other Earths Ambassadors — citizen scientists excited by the search for life on other planets and eager to contribute.