Sentences with phrase «robotic probe»

Although robotic probes are the persistent currency of discovery in today's planetary science, many researchers increasingly see astronauts as crucial agents of exploration in the not - too - distant future.

Should we send humans into the oceans, or are robotic probes better?

But then robotic probes discovered that every lunar swirl sits beneath a bubble of magnetic field.

Robotically bringing an asteroid to the moon instead would be a more attractive first step, the Keck researchers conclude, because an object orbiting the moon would be in easier reach of robotic probes and maybe even humans.

Although specifics are meager, the new budget would bolster earth sciences, keep on track a new rocket to replace the space shuttle after 2010, and provide more funding for robotic probes to visit other planets.

Guardians - of - the - future, who send robotic probes back through the ages, discover that, at critical time - junctures, pivotal figures stray from vital tasks and actions.

Using robotic probes and 3 - D imaging with muons (a type of subatomic particle), workers have found pebbly deposits and debris at various areas inside the primary containment vessels in the three of the plant's reactor units.

A third, larger spacecraft in 2020 is to gather samples and then bring them back to Earth, the first haul of moon rocks since a Soviet robotic probe's return in 1976.

Working on interplanetary robotic probes has its own unique challenges.

Given these vast timescales, they would have enough time to send trillions of self - replicating robotic probes throughout the galaxy (exponentially growing like a swarm of viruses), to locate all the neighboring black holes, even traveling at sublight speed.

I vaguely expect gleaming clean rooms and labs, and to be asked to don overalls — or at the very least safety goggles — to view cutting - edge robotic probes destined to spy out Earth - like planets, or fan out across the solar system in search of life.

NASA is developing a series of mind - boggling robotic probes that will get the most bang from a buck.

And, of course, Milner and his merry band of Breakthrough researchers would strive to send robotic probes there.

Sending astronauts or the heftiest robotic probes to these distant destinations therefore requires huge launchers.

And the price tags on some of NASA's more immediate robotic probes — such as the Mars Science Laboratory, now under construction — are soaring.

The bizarre habitat gleamed in the lights of an underwater robotic probe as it explored the environs of a seafloor spring spewing water at superhot temperatures — known as a hydrothermal vent.

First prize is $ 20 million for the group that can land a lunar rover — an unmanned robotic probe — on the Moon, take it on a 500 - metre trek and broadcast video back to Earth by 31 December 2012.

On the surface of sweltering Venus, robotic probes survive for no more than a few hours.

The $ 163 million robotic probe suffered a crippling malfunction shortly after launch, stranding it in Earth orbit.

Now, we're almost certain that there's liquid water on Europa — and so the next stage is sending some kind of robotic probe or rover out there, to do some real, up - close - and - personal science.

Consequently, there is a sustained international effort to use robotic probes to examine Mars for evidence of past, and even present, life that could have retreated to subsurface, liquid aquifers.

If Obama's policy frees up money for robotic probes, it increases our chances of detecting life.

As the spacecraft passed over Titan, the moon's gravity bent its path, reshaping the robotic probe's orbit slightly so that instead of passing just outside Saturn's main rings, Cassini will begin a series of 22 dives between the rings and the planet on April 26.

Outward contamination is a risk every time NASA launches a robotic probe toward Mars, and the next such launch — the Mars Science Laboratory, a.k.a. «Curiosity» — is scheduled later this month.

The soft landing of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said Science's deputy news editor Robert Coontz.

In 2012, Baxter with co-author Robert M. Freeland II examined, a proposal for a robotic probe to Proxima Centauri entitled, «A Fully Decelerated Probe to Alpha Centauri Using a Perturbed Project Daedalus Design» which was originally published in the 100 Year Starship 2012 Public Symposium Conference Proceedings.

After a 10 - year and 4 - billion - mile journey, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft finally landed a robotic probe on a comet.

After a 10 - year and 4 - billion - mile journey, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will finally land a robotic probe on a comet.

The soft landing of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said

Each robotic probe would weigh just a few grams.

In lieu of the fact that there would be a desire to explore this system a robotic probe would be the first choice to make a reconnaissance and to determine if there exists anything in the system, such as I hypothesized.

That's because any putative Enceladus life - forms may be quite different from those on Earth, and recognizing them as life - forms at all may be beyond the abilities of a robotic probe far from its handlers, McKay said.

Up until this point, the rockets have been used to lift more than 60 critical missions without people: satellites, robotic probes and even the Mars rovers.

Second, robotic probes have measured Venus» atmosphere to be about 97 % CO2, and we can see from the image above (click for a larger version) that the absorption spectrum for CO2 (at Earth temperature and pressure — Venusian temperature and pressure increases the width of the absorption bands, making CO2 a stronger absorber in Venus» atmosphere than in Earth's) strongly overlaps the peak emission spectrum of Venus» surface.

At a press event atop One World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday, the philanthropic initiative «Breakthrough Starshot» was unveiled that will test the savoir - faire and technologies needed to send featherweight interstellar devices, «robotic probes» to th...

Lunar Missions Ltd. recently conducted the launch of its own crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with the hopes of raising funds to land a robotic probe that will bury a time capsule on the lunar south polar.

The European Space Agency made history this week by landing a robotic probe on a comet.