Sentences with phrase «solar system program»

It starts with a computer simulation from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System program and uses actual images from Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager.

This work was supported by the NASA Origins of Solar Systems program and the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

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The 25 % non-mandatory portion of Adjustable Block Programs will not be divided evenly between three sections of systems (under 10 kW distributive generation (DG), 10 - 2,000 kW DG and community solar), but directed to be allocated based on need as the initial blocks are drawn down.

In our first few months, my administration made the largest single investment in basic research in our history, and I went to the Kennedy Space Center to call for reimagining and reinvigorating our space program to explore more of our solar system and look deeper into the universe than ever.

Wind, Solar, Efficiency Grants Awarded to Farmers U.S. Agriculture Secretary Vilsack has announced that 424 projects across the country will receive funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy system investments through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP)...

PSEG Long Island will take over and enhance a popular financing program for home rooftop solar systems that lets customers pay off the loans through their electric bill.

Awarded through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), $ 8.3 million in funding will support LIPA's Solar Pioneer program, which offers rebates to homeowners who install new residential grid - connected solar electric sysSolar Pioneer program, which offers rebates to homeowners who install new residential grid - connected solar electric syssolar electric systems.

This program could also be used to catalog impact scars on other moons or planets, which might improve scientists» understanding of how various objects roamed our solar system in the past...

Michael Griffin, NASA's cherubic and relentlessly optimistic administrator, hopes that names are destiny: He is promising that Ares will launch mankind outward to the fourth planet of our solar system, a dream of virtually everyone ever involved in the space program, but one that has been abandoned repeatedly in the past.

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.

Stephen Doig, program director at the Rocky Mountain Institute, said in the phone conference that the solar pilot projects around the country funded by the Energy Department provide the laboratories for attacking the cost and systems issues.

Griffin told Congress in 2003, «The proper goal of a publicly funded space program is to enable the human settlement of the solar system.»

Currently extensive observational programs are being developed all over the world, with the aim to detect planets outside our solar system that are able to accommodate life — a sheer impossible task.

As a leading exopaleontologist, Farmer serves on a half - dozen committees that oversee NASA's program of robotic exploration of the solar system.

I was pleased to help ensure the legislation included extensions of important renewable energy production and investment tax credits, eliminated the previous cap on the credit for residential solar electric systems, and created the new Treasury Department's (Section 1603) grant in lieu of tax credit program.

About 70 people from the university and the Eugene community attended Apsell's talk, which included snippets of some memorable NOVA programs and a preview of two works - in - progress to be aired in January, «Black Hole Apocalypse» and a five - part series on secrets of the solar system in 2019.

«One of the great joys of working on Cassini is getting a first look at the beautiful images the spacecraft sends down of the most photogenic planet in the solar system,» said Earl Maize, Cassini program manager.

If the binary chants are expected to run as literal computer programs, then the cult is in trouble, just as it would be if it believed Earth is at the center of the solar system or that evolution does not exist.

Once superintelligent AI has settled another solar system or galaxy, bringing humans there is easy — if humans have succeeded in programming the AI with this goal.

Molten salt backup systems make solar power more flexible and reliable, says Frank Wilkins of the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Prosolar power more flexible and reliable, says Frank Wilkins of the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies ProSolar Energy Technologies Program.

Having worked in an exciting robotic exploration program that has extended humanity's reach from Mercury to the edge of the solar system, we wondered whether we might find technical solutions for some of NASA's political and budgetary challenges.

She is a Principal Investigator in NASA's «Origins of Solar Systems», «Planetary Geology and Geophysics», «Outer Planets Fundamental Research», and LASER programs and NSF's «Planetary Astronomy» program.

More than half of that additional capacity — 5,251 MW — has been installed by home and business owners participating in utility net metering programs that allow owners of solar systems to sell excess capacity back to their local utility at retail rates, according to EIA.

Radio antennas with NASA's Deep Space Network will occasionally listen for signals from Spirit — just in case — says Dave Lavery, NASA's program executive for solar system exploration.

(It is part of NASA's Discovery program, which targets lower - cost spacecraft for exploration of the solar system; Kepler was selected in 2001 at the same time as Dawn, a spacecraft that visited the small worlds Vesta and Ceres.)

The Discovery Program was founded in 1992 to sponsor exploration of the Solar System.

Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical Perspective on Programmatic Choice, Success, and Failure in NASA's Solar System Exploration Program

The International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science at the University of Goettingen -LRB-» Solar System School») offers a research - oriented doctoral program covering the physical aspects of Solar system scSystem Science at the University of Goettingen -LRB-» Solar System School») offers a research - oriented doctoral program covering the physical aspects of Solar system scSystem School») offers a research - oriented doctoral program covering the physical aspects of Solar system scsystem science.

An investigation of protoplanetary disk evolution in Orion, especially in its clusters: NGC 1980, NGC 1977, and Orion Nebula cluster, is part of the large NASA exoplanet program: Earths in Other Solar Systems.

I am also involved in the Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (Col - OSSOS) a Gemini Observatory large program to study the surfaces of a well characterized sample of Kuiper belt objects.

Erika DeBenedictis, who developed a computer program to help spacecraft navigate the solar system, also attended.

A common theme was the Obama Administration's FY2013 budget request for the future of the human spaceflight program and what many see as a competition between commercial crew services to the International Space Station (ISS) and a NASA - developed system to take astronauts further into the solar system.

The New Frontiers program, which NASA says is aimed at — among other things — examining the «big picture» of the solar system, kicked off in 2006 with the launch of the New Horizons spacecraft.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Development of online citizen science products such as Google Mercury, Mercury Mappers, Geo Hunters; production and publication of printed and e-book versions of plain language book «Exploring the Inner Solar System»; production of podcasts featuring MESSENGER; evaluation and dissemination of MESSENGER educational products via AAAS's SciLinks site for educators; public programs at AAAS featuring MESSENGER.

During her 2008 campaign Clinton said she was «committed to a space exploration program that involves robust human spaceflight to complete the Space Station and later human missions, expanded robotic spaceflight probes of our solar system leading to future human exploration, and enhanced space science activities.»

While many people think it's pretty cool to see images of features like ice mountains on the most mysterious planet (even if it is a dwarf) in our solar system, imagine the excitement of the scientists that have made a career of studying Pluto having never seen it; or the engineers that built and programmed the craft, the instruments, and the flight path that had New Horizons travel the length of our solar system for nearly a decade.

In this 50 - minute videoconference program, students are given a brief introduction to the UT McDonald Observatory and then they make a volume and distance scale model of two objects in the Solar System.

Earth Science Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment AirMOSS Aqua Aura Aquarius CALIPSO CARVE Center for Earth and Climate Science Education CloudSat DISCOVER - AQ Earth to Sky - Building Climate Literacy for Informal Educators: Expanding the Earth to Sky Partnership (EPOESS NNH09CF00C) Girl Scouts Earth Science Patch Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) The GLOBE Program GLOBE at Langley GRACE ICESat - 2 Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) MY NASA DATA NASA Climate Day / Earth Ambassadors NASA Know Your Earth Campaign NOVA Labs Ocean Surface Topography Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 SAGE III on ISS S'COOL: Student Cloud Observations On - Line SMAP Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Teaching Inquiry using NASA Earth System Science (TINES) Terra

The New Frontiers Program is designed to provide opportunities to conduct several of the medium - class missions identified as top priority objectives in the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey, conducted by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

As chief executive of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Stern directed a wide variety of research and scientific exploration programs for Earth studies, space weather, the solar system, and the universe beyond.

Moderate missions are similar in capability to the older Delta - class Explorers such as the Cosmic Background Explorer, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, the International Ultraviolet Explorer, and the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer or to the Discovery missions of the Solar System Exploration and Discovery Program.

Earths in Other Solar Systems is a NASA - funded five year - duration astrobiology research program aiming to understand how and where habitable, earth - like planets with biocritical ingredients (volatiles and organics) form.

More about the Solar System Ambassador program can be found at: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador

EOS is part of NASA's Nexus for Exoplanetary System Science program, which carries out coordinated research toward to the goal of searching for and determining the frequency of extrasolar planets with atmospheric biosignatures in the Solar neighborhood.

The more than 500 volunteers that make up NASA's Solar System Ambassadors Program bring the excitement of NASA science and engineering to children, teachers, and adults across the country and in several international locations.

JPL Solar System Ambassadors: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/directory.htm A public outreach program in which volunteers communicate the excitement of JPL's space exploration missions and information about recent discoveries to people in their local communities.

After this, the program adopts a more serious tone as it profiles each of the planets in the solar system, from the perspective of what would happen to a man on them.

My first grade students have to program a robot to fly from one planet in the solar system to the next.

This public - private sector project has come up with a solution based on five components: installing photovoltaic solar systems to provide electricity; offering internet and IT equipment to schools; training teachers; community development; and training community members who use the equipment to ensure future sustainability of the program.

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