Sentences with phrase «small moons on»

The end result is a neatly ordered satellite system, with small moons on the inside built from few moonlets and large moons farther out built from numerous moonlets.

Not exact matches

Depending on whether you're landing on a planet or a moon that has no atmosphere, a thin atmosphere, or a dense atmosphere, and depending on whether you're reentering with no payload in the front, a small payload, or a heavy payload, you have to balance the rocket out as it's coming in.

Become multiplanetary on the moon because it's much smaller than been a planet.

This plan called for a large rocket to launch a single spacecraft to the moon, but only a small part of that spacecraft (the Lunar Module) would actually land on the surface.

On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

Planets aren't the only place astronauts may venture: One plan championed by Lockheed Martin has people landing on Phobos, a small Martian moon.

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

Over the past three years, MillerCoors's greatest growth has come from smaller brands such as Blue Moon, and the company is putting increasing emphasis on its imports, like Pilsner Urquell.

The epitome of these missions was when Neil Armstrong took the first ever step on the Moon surface and uttered the infamous phrase, «One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap For Mankind.»

We have landed on the moon, found a cure for small pox, «linked» the evolution of man to a cytoplast, found and studied ancient cultures.

The Bible also says rabbits chew their cud, the earth is balanced on pillars, the earth is a flat disc, the stars are small ornaments hung up in the sky, which itself is nothing more than a black sheet covering the world at night... it says the moon gives off its own light, it says the world was created in 6 days less than 10,000 years ago... It says a lot of things that aren't true.

There is less gravity on the moon (smaller mass then earth).

So we proclaimed on the surface of the moon: one small step for man, a giant step for mankind.

Neil Armstrong, who took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind as the first human to set foot on the moon, passed away today at the...

To create a half - moon shape on top with the cinnamon, hold a small bowl or ramekin over each cup, using it as a stencil.

Now it is a life on wheels with all the problems of such a life: two small daughters who have to sleep on a shelf of the truck Garlits uses as transportation; a wife trying to make a home on the road; short, frantic visits to places like Half Moon Bay and Yellow Belly and Cicero and Oswego; road maps and strong coffee and restless sleep at roadside.

Simply draw on a simple shape (fish, bird, heart, star, moon, flower) put them right sides together and sew, leaving a small opening.

Andy Slaughter would face a Tory majority of 14 % in the new Hammersmith & Fulham seat Gareth Thomas would face a Tory majority of 11 % in the new Harrow and Stanmore Joan Ryan would face a small Tory majority of just 3 % in the new Enfield seat Ruth Cadbury faces a 10 % Tory majority in Brentford & Chiswick Tulip Siddiq faces a 9 % Tory majority in Hampstead and Golders Green Alex Cunningham is only eligible for the nomination in Stockton West, with a 7 % Tory majority Chris Matheson doesn't actually face much change, but Chester would have a 1 % Tory majority on paper Jenny Chapman faces a notional Tory majority of 1 % in Darlington Madeleine Moon's Bridgend is merged with the Vale of Glamorgan to create a notionally Tory seat, but with a majority of only 3 % Alan Whitehead's Southampton Test would have a 4 % Tory majority on paper (Southampton Itchen would flip to Labour... but Whitehead doesn't have the right to go there under Labour rules) Melanie Orr would be eligible to seek selection in either Grimsby North & Barton or Grimsby South and Cleethorpes.

From Cassini's high - resolution images, we learned that even on small scales, the moon is a piebald mix of dark and light patches.

But Titan is so cold — usually about — 178 ° Celsius — that the smallest unit of life on Earth, the cell, would shatter in the moon's subzero seas.

There Voyager had laid bare vast, surprisingly smooth stretches that told of a past marked by intense internal activity and maybe even a liquid - water layer buried below its icy shell — both on a moon seemingly too small for such phenomena.

At 2.7 inches its aperture is on the smaller side, but it's very affordable and works well for viewing the moon (use a filter!)

This heating ought to be weak, but some unknown process seems to be amplifying it, possibly enough to melt a deep ocean of liquid water on Enceladus, or maybe only enough to form smaller pools of water within the moon's icy shell.

Scientists had suspected for a decade that the moon had a smaller sea, based on geysers spurting near its southern pole, but a widespread ocean means more room for otherworldly microbes to thrive.

With a diameter of only 50 miles, this moon appears as a small grey speck sitting atop the rings on the left edge of the image.

Conventional wisdom at the time was that moons are small, inert bodies, so the discovery of lava lakes and sulfur jets on Io came as a shock.

The simulation suggests rocks on the far side come mostly from the smaller moon, which should have previously cooled and solidified faster than the main moon, making its rocks older.

The next smaller moon, Dione, takes center stage with its telltale ice cliffs visible as wisps on its surface.

On March 7, the spacecraft snapped a series of portraits (one shown above) of Pan, Saturn's small moon that orbits within a 325 - kilometer - wide gap in one of the planet's rings.

During spaceflights, and in future habitats on the Moon or Mars, humans are or will be exposed to a condition of «microgravity,» in other words to a gravitational field much smaller compared to that present on Earth.

That means the moon's rocks have been picking up small amounts of oxygen from living things on Earth; the moon is «contaminated» with the waste products of plants, the researchers said.

Southwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth - Moon system.

It's one small step towards developing a robot that can handle the unusual challenges of walking on the moon.

The MBC also relies on the use of NASA's Deep Space Gateway at the moon, which is likely to be a small orbiting space station.

Multi-ringed craters are known on the Moon; the inner ring corresponds to the central peak in smaller craters, while the intermediate 210 - kilometre ring may be the edge of the original hole.

«I try to imagine how it would be to stand on the surface of this icy object — small enough that a fast sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space — and stare up at a 20 - kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the Moon.»

The earlier evidence for water on the moon hinted only at small deposits near the poles, probably left there by the impact of icy meteorites.

If the rocks on the farside of the moon are older than those on the side that faces Earth, that would support his «second impact» hypothesis because the smaller moon would have cooled sooner than our moon, and so its rocks would be older than those of the moon itself.

Titan is the only Solar System moon thought to have liquid at its surface, although Lebreton says oceans may lie beneath crusts of ice on Jupiter's moons Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and even on Saturn's small moon Enceladus.

LLR is lunar laser ranging, which means bouncing lasers off small mirrors on the moon, then detecting the returning photons.

2016 TB57 is a rather small asteroid — about 50 to 115 feet (16 to 36 meters) in size — that will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31 at just beyond five times the distance of the moon.

It also offers among others an answer to the long - standing question of where the energy that can support water in liquid form on the small, cryovulcanic moon far from the sun comes from.

Astronomers believe the small moons, temporarily designated S / 2005 P1 and S / 2005 P2, may be rubble from the same primordial collision that gave birth to Charon and could shed new light on the early history of the outer solar system.

On the near side of the moon, on the shore of the lunar plain known as the Sea of Tranquility, there is a small triangular mountain that had no namOn the near side of the moon, on the shore of the lunar plain known as the Sea of Tranquility, there is a small triangular mountain that had no namon the shore of the lunar plain known as the Sea of Tranquility, there is a small triangular mountain that had no name.

Smaller numbers of meteors will be visible on Monday evening, since light from a nearly full Moon will wash out fainter meteors.

It envisions the great reshuffling as a brief, violent affair that not only put the outer planets where they are today but also created the Kuiper belt of small icy bodies beyond Neptune, gave the planets scores of oddly orbiting moons, and bombarded the solar system with a rain of asteroids and comets so fierce that it would have cooked all but the deepest subterranean life on early Earth.

On average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have showOn average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have showon the moon, previous studies have shown.

As a small spaceship landing on the moon, the microscopic particles land on the surface of the bacteria where they inject their deadly genetic material.

As NASA gets to work on the Constellation Program — the space agency's next not - so - small - step for mankind that hopes to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon by 2020 — the European Space Agency (ESA) has set its sights on learning more about our own planet.

Right now lot of people are using computational codes to simulate the event, but what I'd like to do is that actually do the whole scale event in small scale; and that way we'll understand why craters look like [they] it do on places like the Moon, Mercury and Mars and Venus; and what might happen to the Earth if we got hit by the next big one.