Sentences with phrase «surface flight model»

This mode enables rapid flight around the planet, and once you get close enough you'll automatically switch again to a surface flight model that includes gravity and other factors.

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Using this input, a sophisticated computer model developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, was used to determine which areas receive direct sunlight, how much solar radiation reaches the surface, and how the conditions change over the course of a year on Ceres.

A second study, led by Hailan Wang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used different model simulations and came to a similar conclusion: While a warming sea surface did make it more likely that a high - pressure ridge could form, the signal was not strong enough to explain its extreme nature.

The simulator can model the way wings of varying shapes and surface features beat, as well as how they change their shape during flight.

The flight model loses its cleanness for a rougher bumpier model when close to a planet's surface but when you land it is an entirely different story.

-- Pete Wetzel, Ph. D., Research Meteorologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, specializing in parameterizing the interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere for Global Climate, Regional Mesoscale, and local Cloud - resolving numerical weather prediction models.

No matter how much Computational Fluid Dynamics they do, they always do the first test flights with tufts stuck to the aerodynamic surfaces — so they can see exactly what the airflow is doing despite what the models say.

In the latest study, the Berkeley Lab researchers and their collaborators used a detailed global land surface model from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which contained regional information on surface variables, such as topography, evaporation, radiation and temperature, as well as on cloud cover.