Sentences with phrase «sky cranes»

Intensely realistic physics and awesome high - resolution visuals combined with impressive machinery, such as cranes, skid loaders, dump trucks, forklifts and sky cranes make this game a very appealing and addictive title you will want to try out.

Our family rented small summer apartments on Long Island and returned each Labor Day to see the city new yet distressed ¯ fresh excavations, more steel frames covered with thin glass skin, sky cranes hoisting tons of stuff forty stories or more.

From the craft, a so - called «sky crane» will be deployed that will lower the tethered rover onto the surface.

Everyone was worried about those seven minutes that I hurtled through the thin Martian atmosphere, with a rocket - powered «sky crane» slowing my descent.

This challenge led to the ambitious «sky crane» manoeuver used to lower Curiosity — the heaviest mission yet sent to Mars — to the surface.

Dangling on cables like a giant spider, the payload is gently lowered by a «sky crane» to the surface.

«The sky crane system is a good engineering solution to the problem.»

The ballet of moves that precedes the sky crane's deployment is also an advance.

While this new gear could handle heavy loads, it would still need some help from a sky crane or other device to slow down a payload to soft - landing speeds, Clark said.

Instead, the Mars Science Laboratory will use the sky crane touchdown system illustrated here, which will be capable of delivering a much larger rover onto the surface.

Since the 1 - ton rover is too big for airbags to cushion its landing, Curiosity is equipped with a rocket - powered sky crane to lower it to the surface.

So far, the heftiest payload NASA has landed on Mars is the one - ton Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover, which touched down in August 2012 via parachutes and an innovative, rocket - powered sky crane.

Along with the look - up cameras, the descent stage will have look - down cameras to view the rover from above, while the rover will have look - up cameras to see how the descent stage is operating as it is lowered from the sky crane.

As we zoom closer and closer into Gale Crater, the components of Curiosity's landing system come into view: The heat shield was the first piece to hit the ground, followed by the back shell attached to the parachute, then the rover itself touched down, and finally, after cables were cut, the sky crane flew away to the northwest and crashed Image credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / University of Arizona

Not exact matches

A street near Amazon headquarters in downtown Seattle, where cranes dot the sky as new office buildings, condos and apartments are built.

Economists and policy - makers are keeping a close eye on condos, especially in the country's most populous city, where cranes dot the sky.

Surely you could have seen that as you floated into the sky, your disciples standing beneath your feet with craned necks, slacked mouths, a million questions, and no clue what to do next.

The wind gets especially tough to judge, with players and caddies looking at different flags all around the green — the two high up in the sky on the TV camera crane, the many decorative flags lining the hospitality suites, and the pin up ahead taunting them.

You see cranes in the sky,» Cuomo said.

There are even sightings in the Buffalo sky of a species long thought to be extinct in Buffalo, cranes.

Cranes are flying, once again, in the Buffalo sky,» Cuomo said.

On Tuesday, the 16 - acre site remained very much a construction zone, as a crane lifted the first steel trident into the sky and then lowered it into place on the memorial plaza.

But the governor returned again and again in his speech Wednesday to Upstate's need for more infrastructure improvements, more tax breaks and more construction cranes in the sky, like the ones now rising in Buffalo.

They designed this «sky - crane» — along with a beefed - up heat shield and parachute — to slow 3 tons of spacecraft from bullet speeds to a gentle stop on the surface in 7 minutes.

In short, though, the Mars 2020 rover — which is targeting a 2020 launch date — will look almost identical to Curiosity and will land on Mars in the same crazy - sky - crane way.

The «Cranes in the Sky» singer shut down New York Fashion Week's spring 2018 season in platinum blonde braids.

Authorities say a construction worker is unaccounted for after a crane toppled onto its side near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Cranes, back hoes and other heavy equipment are being set up to move a drilling rig that toppled on its side near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, trapping a construction worker.

The grazing brontosauri below craned their necks to watch the light streak across the sky, never realizing what almost hit them.

The movie opens with an eye - catching, dreamy image, as the camera cranes down from fireflies against sky to a woman standing on a rocky shore, a boat floating in the water.

The cranes symbolize the lovers» hope for skies filled with natural beauty rather than birds of war — namely German warplanes.

When BMW enthusiasts crane their necks toward the night sky, their thoughts might often turn to coveted stars from the M galaxy.

Pointed straight up toward the sky, we crane our neck to peer over the Rebel's bulged hood, hoping to get a glimpse of flat land.

But craning your head back, you could see the day's blue darken halfway across the sky, and to the west, the night remained yet unconquered — pitch - black, stars in full glimmer, the full moon still pinned in the sky.

After that, I put on my hazard lights and drove the last few miles at a crawl — still craning my neck out the window, unable to keep my eyes off the sky.

At the construction sites marking each street, men leaned back, mopping their brows and looking uneasily into the sky, as if afraid to mount their cranes and go even closer to the sun.

The big dinner table, which is lifted 50 meters up in the sky by a crane, can...

Cloudy Highland is a dull and very grey stage, with a long winding road and low clouds; Industrial Complex is a fascinating maze of pipes, cranes and scaffolding underneath a brown sky; Snow Mountain is an awesomely large mountain covered in - erm, snow, with a few aqueducts and tunnels - while Ghost Forest is a stage we didn't get to see.

To make the videos, the artist placed the flowers on a mirror that reflected the bright blue Los Angeles sky above and filmed them from above on a crane using a day - for - night filter — which movie directors use to make scenes shot in the day look like they occur at night — and had a rain machine pump rain between the camera and the flowers.

This quest for new forms of Black subjectivity is one that Jafa has been seeking through his cultural criticism, his archive and previous cinematic accomplishment Daughters of the Dust and, more recently, Solange's Cranes in the Sky and Don't Touch my Hair.

Jafa was the director of photography on Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994), Isaac Julien's Darker Shade of Black (1994), A Litany for Survival (1995), Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson's biographical film on the late Audre Lorde, John Akomfrah's Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993), a cinematographer for Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Manthia Diawara's Rouch in Reverse (2000), Nefertite Nguvu's In the Morning (2014), shot second unit on Ava DuVernay's Selma (2014) and was the director of photography for Solange's music videos Don't Touch My Hair and Cranes in the Sky (both 2016).

In the Morning (2014), shot second unit on Ava DuVernay's Selma (2014) and was the director of photography for Solange's music videos Don't Touch My Hair and Cranes in the Sky (both 2016).

He has also been recognised for his work on the Solange Knowles videos, Don't Touch My Hair and Cranes in the Sky (2016).

Construction cranes grasp toward the sky everywhere you turn.