Sentences with phrase «space probe currently»

An orbiting Chinese space probe currently is mapping landing sites for a 2017 landing in a search for helium - 3.

Now you have a sense of the slow - motion cliffhanger that is New Horizons, a NASA space probe currently racing toward Pluto and its large moon Charon at 35,000 miles per hour.

Not exact matches

And one of the ways, one of the predictions of inflation, potentially, is if there is a background of something called gravitational waves — literally undulations in space and time that exist throughout the universe — and two other gentlemen that are here, John Carlstrom, he is one of the experimental leaders in looking at the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is currently our best probe of the universe.

RTGs have powered dozens of space probes over the years, including the Curiosity rover currently exploring Mars.

And the Voyager space probe, launched in 1977, is currently over 11 billion miles from Earth — and may just now be exiting our solar system.