Sentences with phrase «solar system team»

For example, this video shows off the secret paths the player may take through the various planets in the solar system Team Star Fox traverses through.

In 1972 sci - fi movie Silent Running, the lone human guardian of the last remaining Earth plants in the solar system teams up with three gardening robots to save them from destruction.

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Frank Alfano, CEO of Mercury Solar Systems, said: «Our team is thrilled to bring these unique solar carports to Long Island, the largest project of its kind in all of the U.S.&rSolar Systems, said: «Our team is thrilled to bring these unique solar carports to Long Island, the largest project of its kind in all of the U.S.&rsolar carports to Long Island, the largest project of its kind in all of the U.S.»

Justin R. Crepp, Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics, was part of the team that discovered KELT - 4Ab, a so - called «hot Jupiter» because it is a gas giant that orbits extremely close to one of the stars in its solar system.

Kleine's team began spelling out the implications: By 1 million years after the solar system's start, Jupiter's core had grown large enough to sweep up dust in its path, creating a barrier.

If Gaidos and his team are right, further collisions could have knocked free other objects towards our solar system, which means we may see some of this asteroid's cousins.

A Southwest Research Institute - led team has discovered an elusive, dark moon orbiting Makemake, one of the «big four» dwarf planets populating the Kuiper Belt region at the edge of our solar system.

The team's calculations also suggest two likely orbital planes for the planet: one moderately close to the mean plane of the solar system and near the mean plane of the four eKBOs at about 18 degrees, and one steeper plane, inclined at about 48 degrees.

The team is now working to optimize the system with alternative metals for the reflective metallic layer, such as aluminum, copper or silver, which will reduce the costs of the solar absorber even further.

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

In the study, a research team found that the Almahata Sitta meteorite once belonged to a protoplanet, one of tens of early worlds that experienced impacts and buildups to ultimately create the rocky planets in our solar system.

The year before, a Swiss team had found 51 Pegasi b, a remarkable planet beyond our own solar system — the first ever discovered around another sunlike star.

Interestingly, the team found that cosmic rays were at work deeper down below the surface — meaning at least some of the moon's water comes from outside the solar system.

The craters may be up to 4 billion years old, from a time when asteroids were heavily bombarding the early Solar System, says team member William McKinnon, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Meanwhile, Josep Maria Trigo (CSIC researcher at the Institute of Space Sciences, a CSIC centre associated with the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia - IEEC) and his team determined its orbit and reconstructed the orbital evolution of Annama in the Solar System in order to compare it with a dozen asteroids with which, a priori, showed orbital similarity at the present time.

By subtracting out light from the camera itself, along with that from our solar system, interstellar gas and dust, and, finally, the estimated light from all the stars, galaxies and other light sources from the last 13 billion years or so, the team isolated what it believes is the dawn of light.

Close encounter Tracing the trajectory of the star and its brown dwarf companion back in time, Mamajek's team found with 98 % confidence that Scholz's star passed within the Solar System's Oort cloud, a reservoir of comets, about 70,000 years ago.

The features would be the first large ice volcanoes in the solar system, says Jeff Moore, a New Horizons scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, though the team is not yet willing to say the discovery is definite.

Specifically, the team found that the angrites» remnant magnetization could have been produced by an extremely weak magnetic field of no more than 0.6 microteslas, 4.563 billion years ago, or, about 4 million years after the start of the solar system.

This is truly unexpected and still a mystery to us,» said Andreas Nathues, lead investigator for the framing camera team at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany.

«We detected strong indications of the sublimation of water ice due to the increased solar heating — similar to how the tail of a comet is created,» explains Jessica Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany), the team leader and main author of the research psolar heating — similar to how the tail of a comet is created,» explains Jessica Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany), the team leader and main author of the research pSolar System Research, Germany), the team leader and main author of the research paper.

In contrast to earlier observations the team did not observe dust that will later form into planets, but dust created in collisions between small planets of a few kilometres in size — objects called planetesimals that are similar to the asteroids and comets of the Solar System.

Micro-mineral analyses of the pebble by the original research team at the University of Johannesburg have now provided unsettling answers that spiral away from conventional views of the material our solar system was formed from.

«There is dust in our own solar system,» said Philip Hinz, the lead for the HOSTS Survey team and associate professor of astronomy at the UA.

In a technology first, a team of NASA engineers has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray navigation in space — a capability that could revolutionize NASA's ability in the future to pilot robotic spacecraft to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was part of an international team that recently discovered a relatively unpopulated region of the main asteroid belt, where the few asteroids present are likely pristine relics from early in solar system history.

To overcome the various drawbacks of photovoltaic and solar - thermal systems, a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a new device that combines elements of both, which they describe in a January 19 paper in Nature Nanotechnology.

At 8:05 p.m., the IRIS team confirmed the spacecraft had successfully deployed its solar arrays, has power and has acquired the sun, indications that all systems are operating as expected.

The team plans to apply this new technique to the entire asteroid belt to reveal more about the history of the solar system by identifying the primordial asteroids versus fragments of collisions.

- A two - person team of Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory has discovered a new active asteroid, called 62412, in the Solar System's main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The team theorises we'll find more interstellar debris entering our solar system along the the same steep path, akin to how comets leave behind a trail that results in meteor showers when Earth passes through it.

«This significant achievement by our team mates at DOE signals a new renaissance in the exploration of our solar system,» said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

A team of researchers in Japan modeled the two rings around Chariklo, the smallest body in the Solar System known to have rings.

For example, a team led by Licheng Sun at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, is working on a system that uses a photosensitised anode similar to those used in dye - sensitised solar cells (Chemical Communications, DOI: 10.1039 / c0cc01828g).

Funding from Future Energy Source Ltd. has allowed Dr Khan and his team to set up labs in Poole, which include a scale model of the solar thermal system — an invaluable tool for testing.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar Ssystem IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar SystemSystem.

Sedna is the largest addition to the solar system since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, but another, unnamed planetoid recently found by Brown's team may soon break the record again; researchers are still working to pin down its size.

In addition, «The team is also interested in testing these fibers for multifunctional applications, including batteries, solar cells, biofuel cells, and sensors for flexible and wearable optoelectronic systems,» Dai said.

Here Robert Kirschner of Harvard University and his colleagues found an enormous void of starless space, 150 million light - years across, while another team uncovered evidence of a black hole that packs the mass of 2 billion suns into a space no larger than our solar system.

Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team, says the ring pictures may even help us figure out how Earth formed: «If we understand how icy particles in the outer solar system behave, then we can refine our understanding of how the early solar system formed from that same material.»

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

Birmingham, Alabama - based Southern Research built the Airborne Imaging and Recording Systems (AIRS) onboard and worked with the scientific team to retrofit its DyNAMITE telescopes with solar filters and improved data recorders and operating software.

During the commissioning phase, the GPI team observed a variety of targets, ranging from asteroids in our solar system, to an old star near its death.

The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered oxygen in 67P Churyumov - Gerasimenko's atmosphere — and the team thinks it may date back to the birth of the solar system, when comets and planets first formed.

The German Aerospace Center, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Italian Space Agency and Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team.

The team figures that there must be between 500 and 1000 unseen NEAs in the solar system; the best previous estimate put the number between 1000 and 2000.

Several teams are racing to spot Planet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered orbits.

For the Europa team, planetary scientists and researchers interested in the search for life in the solar system, each step of the Europa mission's journey is an important one.

The mountains likely formed no more than 100 million years ago — mere youngsters relative to the 4.56 - billion - year age of the solar system — and may still be in the process of building, says Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team leader Jeff Moore of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California..

The team found ices and minerals bearing water, iron, complex organic materials, and exotic cyanide compounds not previously seen on other solar - system objects.