Sentences with phrase «space probe in»

If scientists behaved like philosophers nobody would ever get anything done because they'd all be too worried about having missed some factor, and anyway what if I'm just imagining the space probe in the first place?

Last September, an Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with a 4,650 - pound space probe in its nose known as the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer — or just OSIRIS - REx.

These swing - by - manoeuvres have been performed numerous times by space probes in our solar system.

Where do they make space probes in the UK?

Not exact matches

Although Saturn was visited by three spacecraft in the 1970s and 1980s, my fellow scientists and I couldn't have imagined what the Cassini space probe would discover during its sojourn at the ringed planet when it launched 20 years ago.

Seven other U.S. space probes have sailed past the gas giant on brief reconnaissance missions before heading elsewhere in the solar system.

NASA's Insight lander was built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Denver and delivered to Vandenberg Airfare base in California on February 28, and will probe the deep interior of the Red Planet to gain a better understanding of the processes that have shaped rocky planets such as Mars and Earth.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

Particle accelerators and all the new telescopes and devices in space and on earth that probe the Universe are expensive things that may also have no practical purpose.

I realize this may not be clear or meaninful to some readers and I can't take the space here to go into it other than to say that a good segment of biblical scholarship for a couple decades at least, has properly broadened its pursuits in an interdisciplinary manner, into probing for better understandings of the nature and formative, growth processes of the earliest groups of Jesus followers and how they ultimately became Jewish Christian groups, or started as mixed Jewish / Gentile groups (as via Paul, et al.).

You will, and you'll be remembered as the person who died in some crappy cave because you read it in a story you read online about sentient 178th - century space probes who watch football all day, even though the most handsome character in the story completely interrupted everything to explicitly tell you not to.

Provisionally designated A / 2017 U1, the object appears to be less than a half - kilometer in diameter and is traveling at just over 40 kilometers per second — faster than humanity's speediest outbound space probes.

This year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the team behind NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, a space telescope that launched in 2001 to map the cosmic microwave background — the earliest, oldest light we can detect from the universe's infancy.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

China's second moon probe is parked at a stable spot in deep space, called a Lagrangian point, as part of a new mission to study the sun and Earth's magnetic field.

On 30 September, the European Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space space rock.

Several sails have been unfurled in space to test deployment, and spacecraft like NASA's Mercury probe, Messenger, have used the pressure of sunlight to alter trajectories.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite has used ground - penetrating radar in some areas to look for a water table but found no evidence for one, despite research that concluded any water would be found within 9 kilometres of the surface — well within the reach of the probe's instruments.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

On June 23, Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative to send spacecraft to another star system, launched half a dozen probes called Sprites to test how their electronics fare in outer space.

Comet researchers got a bonus in 2001 when NASA's Deep Space 1 probe zipped by comet Borrelly.

No space probe or telescope built by humans has ever escaped the Milky Way to turn back and take a portrait; because we are embedded in our galaxy's disk, we can only see it as a bright band of stars across the sky.

Eagerly anticipated missions in the coming decade include attempts to bring back lunar samples, a joint CAS — ESA project to study space weather and ground - breaking missions to probe dark matter and black holes.

Two NASA space probes have visited Mercury, Mariner 10 in 1974 and 1975, and MESSENGER, which orbited the planet from 2011 until a deliberate crash landing in 2015.

15 In space, no one can hear you sneeze: Streptococcus mitis, a bacterium that infects the nose and throat, was inadvertently sent to the moon aboard the Surveyor 3 probe.

While space agencies are planning to send more orbiters to study Jupiter and its moons in the next decade, probes remain impractical because the gas planet has no solid surface to land on.

Back in 2003 the same team warned in an article published in Nature of the drastic reduction in winds on the cloud level with respect to what had been observed when the Voyager space probes visited the planet.

The «gravitational lens» created by the bending of light through warped space - time has become a vital tool in probing the cosmos.

As the faster of the two probes, Voyager 1 was poised to reach interstellar space first, but its instrument for measuring the solar wind had stopped functioning in 1980.

Her research concentration is in marine geophysics, where she has used a variety of remote sensing techniques from ships and space to probe the dynamics of the mantle and overlying plates far from plate boundaries on geologic time scales.

Tomorrow, the probe will spend its last full day in space snapping images of its greatest hits: Saturn and the rings, Titan, a small moon forming within the rings informally dubbed «Peggy,» the moon Enceladus, ring ripples called propellers and finally, the location of its own demise.

That level of fascination made sense in the days before telescopes could observe details in planetary atmospheres, before space probes had explored Mars and bulldozed into a comet, and before we understood the history of asteroid and comet collisions, linking celestial bodies large and small.

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It would focus on the composition and thickness of the ocean, already reckoned to be briny and rich in magnesium salts following previous observations of seeps to the surface by other space probes flying nearby.

But it also made possible the building and continuous operation of at least a small and creaky space station; the launching and in - orbit repair of hundreds of satellites, telescopes, detectors, and space probes; and the conducting of a slew of space - based experiments that contributed immensely to a range of fields.

When Cassini dropped the European Space Agency's Huygens probe onto the surface of Titan in 2005, scientists were surprised to discover an Earthlike world with craggy mountains, broad plains, eroded coastlines, and familiar - looking weather patterns.

This story follows the trek of a space rock from its discovery in an ice field to a lab, where researchers probe the rock's origins (perhaps some asteroid or the moon) and then send bits of the meteorite to a library.

After years of repeated but unconfirmed rumours that the spacecraft had broken free of the sun's protection, NASA scientists announced last week that the probe entered interstellar space in August last year.

Among their uses in a variety of specialized applications: generating power on space probes and cooling seats in fancy cars.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

Believers in second chances will be rooting next week for a space probe as it tries again to orbit Venus.

In the 1990s the Galileo space probe collected convincing evidence that Jupiter's large moon Europa has a global ocean of liquid water beneath its frozen surface.

The Pioneer 10 space probe — the farthest - traveling man - made object in the universe — came to the end of its mission this past year, after a quarter of a century of scientific exploration.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has reached its final resting place after two years in orbit around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko

When the letter claims that NASA space probes have spotted enormous forests on Mars and requests an investigation, you really take notice, though maybe not the way the writer had in mind.

The Indian space probe Chandrayaan 1 adjusted its orbit around the moon in one of its final maneuvers before releasing a lunar impactor.

Hints that the stuff might surround Earth come from observations of space probes, several of which changed their speeds in unexpected ways as they flew past Earth.

As the Huygens probe prepared to plunge into the atmosphere of Titan, the scientists at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, kept warning the packed auditorium full of colleagues and journalists to «expect the unexpected.»

The mission, which kicked into high gear when the probe started orbiting comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in August 2014, has officially had its funding extended to September 2016, the European Space Agency announced June 23.