Sentences with phrase «red planet»

If the concept of exploring a beautiful rendition of the real - life red planet sounds exciting to you, then you'll absolutely love this game / experience.

The swirling sands of this particular red planet sweep up a storm, the rock faces are dramatically imposing and the space anomalies sparkly and alluring.

Mars scientists have long associated the search for liquid water on red planet with the possibility of life, since the two are closely linked here on Earth.

«Update: Comet to make close flyby of Red Planet in October 2014.»

It begins as a Western, veers into sci - fi, and finally finds its footing as a blend of those, with a dash of sword and sorcery — a Confederate cavalryman slashing and hacking beasties and baddies all over the dusty, dying Red Planet in the years just after America's Civil War.

During PAX East we got the chance to sit down with a demo of Memories Of Mars and experience the beloved red planet for ourselves.

By now it's old news that NASA's new Mars rover Curiosity is resting safely on the surface of Red Planet after a daredevil landing that had the nation holding its breath.

Earlier this year at the South by Southwest conference, Budweiser announced its goal to be the first beer on Mars — offering a colonized red planet the same enjoyments provided here on earth, including fresh beer!

Bouchey's striking resemblance to Dwight D. Eisenhower enabled him to play roles calling for quick decisiveness and unquestioned leadership; he even showed up as the President of the United States in 1952's Red Planet Mars, one year before the «real» Ike ascended to that office.

The solar - powered Beagle 2 was designed to study Red Planet geology, weather and climate, as well as search for possible signs of Martian life.

As NASA's Curiosity rover celebrates one year on Mars, the space agency has begun final preparations for the launch of its next Red Planet mission later this year.

THE OTHER RED PLANET Pluto's ruddy surface comes into view in a close - up taken on July 3, 12.5 million kilometers from the dwarf planet.

Take a tour of the mysterious Red Planet.

The existence of subsurface liquid water on Mars could also serve as a potential supply source for future red planet explorers.

And according to SpaceX engineer Paul Wooster, Red Planet planning by Musk's private company is steadily progressing.

The rover's instruments have found no traces of the gas, in contrast to some previous observations made by Red Planet orbiters.

Even if such efforts succeed, they won't necessarily cause native Mars life to be swamped by microbes from Earth, Rummel said — especially if Red Planet organisms exist only underground, where they're shielded from harmful radiation.

[Photos: Red Planet Views from Europe's Mars Express]

A long lull followed the Viking mission; NASA launched its next Red Planet explorer, an orbiter called Mars Observer, in 1992.

«Study estimates amount of water needed to carve Martian valleys: Findings suggest Red Planet had ocean, active hydrologic cycle.»

A huge blue motherly curve nearly encircles a large black planet while luring a smaller red planet into the fold, calling to mind an abstracted stuffed toy.

2001: A Space Odyssey, Adam West, Angry Red Planet, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brian De Palma, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, John Carter, Mars, Mars Attacks, Mission to Mars, Ray Bradbury, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Taylor Kitsch, The Martian Chronicles, Total Recall

Set on the titular red planet, JCB Pioneer: Mars asks the player to utilise hard science in their attempts to successfully colonise its dusty wilds.

Red Planet takes place in the future, in a time when all life on Earth is on the verge of extinction.

But just in case those crops fail, Red Planet settlers would want enough in storage to make a doomsday prepper seem ill equipped.

I shed a surprising amount of tears during the founding of my first red planet colony in Surviving Mars.

It even serves its own exclusive beer on tap, Mars Red Planet Ale, created by the Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee.

For years, gullies on the surface of Mars have perplexed Red Planet specialists: How could such a frigid, desert - like environment have supported water?

Red Planet snow: To explore the conditions that future Mars probes might encounter, Wergin, Erbe, and a group of NASA researchers created imitation Martian snow.

Finally, another NeMO task that should be included, Hubbard says, is a provision to return samples of Red Planet dirt that could be collected and cached by the so - called Mars 2020 rover set to launch in three years.

One possible explanation is that something prematurely robbed the nascent Red Planet of its building blocks.

Simulating the loneliness of the real Red Planet, we removed the SIM cards from our phones and were issued new email addresses to communicate with mission support, with a 20 - minute delay on either end — the time it would take for the data packets to span the gap between Earth and Mars when Mars is at its farthest.

Suffering from mal de mer but otherwise exhilarated, I exit the capsule and explore not the sandy Red Planet but the ride queue area nearby, which snakes under an original Apollo - era lunar rover, designed by NASA for training purposes.

Extensive systems of fossilised riverbeds have been discovered on an ancient region of the Martian surface, supporting the idea that the now cold and dry Red Planet had a warm and wet climate about 4 billion years ago, according to UCL - led research.

The ESA / Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is mere weeks away from commencing its atmospheric search for evidence of recent geological activity, and possibly life on everyone's favorite Red Planet.

Bruce Betts tosses a few Red Planets to audience members who play the space trivia game.

NASA plans to launch its next Mars orbiter today (Nov. 18), kicking off a mission that differs markedly from the space agency's many previous Red Planet efforts.

The Mars rock made headlines in 1996 when researchers, led by David McKay, from NASA's Johnson Space Center, claimed in the journal Science that the meteorite contained evidence of possible Red Planet life forms.

NASA has been sending probes toward Mars since November 1964, when the agency launched the Mariner 3 spacecraft on an attempted Red Planet flyby.

By Bob Bruner Guest Blogger, Red Planet Pen, # 34 Bob Bruner is an amateur scientist that has attended all the «Case for Mars» conferences given by the Mars Underground in the 1980's and 1990's and joined the Mars Society at its founding.

Unfortunately, Mars is in «detriment» in feminine Cancer, a weakened position for the virile red planet.

Surviving Mars, as you might expect, takes place on the eponymous red planet.

Take the dull - witted Red Planet.

Captain James T. Kirk (Pine), Bones (Urban), and Spock (Quinto) are observing civilization on the vastly red planet of Nibiru.

For my money, the best modern Mars movies remain Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall and Antony Hoffman's unfairly maligned Red Planet.

Like the three aforementioned films preceding Red Planet, this is a feast for the eyes, with beautiful use of special effects and locales.