Sentences with phrase «space probe made»

Almost three years after NASA's New Horizons deep space probe made its historic flyby of Pluto, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has released the first list of official names for features on the face of the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon.

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Although Luther was most captive to this form of thinking, it also affected the other 16th century Reformers; Instead of seeing the Eucharist as a time mystery, they treated it as a space mystery, and probed the static problem of locating the body of Christ rather than the dynamic one of making contact with a saving event.

Deep space exploration China's State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense has heralded the repurposed probe, which has made China's space agency the third ever to visit a Lagrangian point.

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.

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.

The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the comet on Wednesday, 12 November, has not moved from its landing spot and so its solar panels are not getting enough sunlight.

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.

Perhaps they could turn the space into a classroom, study whether lighting can reduce falls among older people or probe whether certain office conditions make it easier for people with traumatic brain injuries to return to work.

And while the Deep Space 1 experimental probe did make its flyby of asteroid Braille in July, its camera was pointing the wrong way.

Instead, the probe makes a loop that takes it right up next to the planet — to within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the cloud tops — and then far out into space, before looping back in for another close pass.

We seem to be making progress toward building space probes that can travel near the speed of light and reach...

Now a space image - processing enthusiast from Tennessee, in the US, believes he's made a «pre-discovery» of those plumes in archive image data from the Voyager 1 probe, which raced past the Saturn system in 1980.

Now Ted Stryk, a space image - processing enthusiast from Tennessee, believes he has made a «pre-discovery» of those plumes in archive image data from the Voyager 1 probe, which raced past the Saturn system in 1980.

An encounter with Klim Churyumov 11 November 2016 Two years ago this week, the entire world was getting ready for a historic endeavour in space: the first soft landing of a human - made probe on a comet.

The European Space Agency reflects on the discoveries made by the NASA / ESA / ISA Cassini - Huygens probe.

But the space agency made history with Mariner 9, which became the first probe ever to orbit another planet when it arrived at Mars in November 1971.

NASA has released a composite image created from observations made by the Voyager 2 probe and the Hubble Space Telescope, displaying intense auroras glowing in the atmosphere of the icy planet Uranus.

In 1990, NASA and the European Space Agency launched the Ulysses probe to make the first observations of its polar regions.

«The Shape of Water» certainly helps make the case for his status at the top of the heap as he probes Kennedy - era America, a time that produced both the glimmering beacon of the Space Race and the combustible cocktail of civil rights.

Where do they make space probes in the UK?

Although written cases and analyses of student work samples would achieve similar goals as video analyses, images of classroom lessons provide unique opportunities for novice teachers to see in action how more experienced colleagues make space for student thinking to become visible, probe student thinking to move learning forward, engage students in classroom discourse and learn about students» individual ideas while they teach.

However, highly accurate measurements made by satellites, like the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)[2], have corroborated that the deep space has a temperature and, additionally, that it is not an absolutely -LSB-...]