Sentences with phrase «spacecraft exploring our solar system»
Here are some other spacecraft exploring our solar system, launched by NASA and the world's other space agencies.
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The VLA is also a high - precision spacecraft tracker that NASA and ESA have used to keep tabs on robotic spacecrafts exploring the Solar System.
Not exact matches
This atmosphere made Titan a uniquely tempting target when spacecraft began exploring the solar system.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sets off to explore distant Pluto, the tiny world that challenges everything we know about the solar system.
Unmanned spacecraft are exploring the solar system more cheaply and effectively than astronauts are.
Some said the fact that we haven't seen such spacecraft in our solar system means aliens have not explored the galaxy, and probably don't exist.
Though far past the planets, the mission continues to send back unprecedented observations of the space environment in the solar system, providing crucial information on the environment our spacecraft travel through as we explore farther and farther from home.
Dr. Curren's specialization in laboratory experimentation (used to supplement spacecraft data) has led her to explore the environmental processes that dictate the evolution of materials on the surfaces of solar system bodies.
As part of the New Horizons mission, the spacecraft will also explore other Kupier Belt, the ring of debris which circles the solar system, objects, NASA reported.
When New Horizons roared into a blue Florida sky on 18 January 2006, it was met with excitement and frustration in equal measure: excitement because, after so many fruitless attempts to send a spacecraft to Pluto — ranging from the ill - fated Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) to the Pluto Kuiper Express (PKE), which breathed their last in ferocious NASA budget cuts in the 1990s and at the turn of the millennium — a mission to explore the last of the nine «traditional» planets in the Solar System was underway, tempered with frustration that it would require such a long period of time in order to reach its quarry.
That's why NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars — and some other NASA spacecraft that explore the solar system — use something called «radioisotope power.»
An audacious plan from the start, the goal was to explore a virtually unknown region of the outer Solar System, including the gas giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, using twin Voyager spacecraft.