Sentences with phrase «space probe show»

New images from the Cassini space probe show what astronomers are calling «a rubble - pile moon.»

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Finally it showed that our solar system is larger than previously thought: when the mission ended, with the probe 6.2 billion miles from Earth, it was still detecting solar - wind particles, indicating that it had not yet crossed the heliopause — the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

A ground - based laser array in a high - altitude site like Chile's Atacama Desert, shown in this artist's rendering, could send 100 gigawatts of power to orbiting space probes, enough to accelerate them to a significant fraction of the speed of light.

In the past few years, space probes, improved ground - based telescopes, and orbiting observatories have shown us close - up pictures of hundreds of objects in our solar system.

The probe's success shows that solar is a deep - deep space contender.

For instance, during the decade it orbited Venus, the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier prSpace Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier prspace, something discovered by earlier probes.

This infrared image shows a laser beam signal from NASA's LADEE moon probe as seen in infrared by the European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station in Tenerife, Spain on Oct. 26, 2013.

Updated NASA space probes have discovered an artificial barrier around Earth created through human activity — showing we are not only responsible for shaping the environment on land, but that we are now having an impact on space too.