Sentences with phrase «threatening orbiting spacecraft»

And while material spewing from the icy visitor probably won't trigger the colossal meteor showers on the Red Planet that some scientists predicted, dust and water vapor may still slam into Mars, briefly heating up its atmosphere and threatening orbiting spacecraft.

Not exact matches

NASA is also pitching the missions as a step forward in demonstrating how a spacecraft can alter the orbits of potentially Earth - threatening asteroids — that's the «Redirect» part of the ARM moniker.