Sentences with phrase «times during each orbit»

Although Mercury is not tidally locked to the Sun, its rotational period of almost 59 days is tidally coupled to its orbital period of 88 days, rotating only one and a half times during each orbit in a 3:2 resonance.

Not exact matches

However, at no time during the Dark Ages did the Sun actually orbit a motionless Earth!

On Io, one of Jupiter's largest moons, the atmosphere turns to frost and collapses every time the orb passes into the planet's shadow — for about 2 hours during each of the moon's 42 - hour orbits.

Long before that time, Zurek says, NASA and other space agencies can adjust their satellites» orbits such that the craft swing behind Mars for protection during the brief interval of highest threat.

Six years later, he flew for the first time on a six - day, 96 - orbit mission during which he helped deploy a satellite, conduct experiments in astrophysics, and run an onboard materials processing lab.

During test jumps, the robot briefly experienced accelerations of about 13.8 g — more than three times those stomached by astronauts on the space shuttle as they were boosted into orbit.

The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) instrument captured this infrared radiation during Venus Express's night - time orbits around the planet's southern hemisphere.

Previous studies proposed that climatic changes due to variations in Earth's orbit during the Late Pleistocene epoch (126,000 to 11,000 years ago) have influenced the timing of dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa.

At its closest, during three orbits, it will pass within 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) of the Sun's surface, which is about seven times closer than any previous spacecraft has been, including ones at Mercury.

SPP won't get too close, but it will pass several times through the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, during a period of 24 orbits, to collect data.

Scheduled to launch in 2018 during «Horizons,» Alexander Gerst's second science mission as a European Space Agency astronaut, «Bake in Space» will experiment with a specialty bread dough in a microgravity oven to bake in orbit for the first time ever.

Announced during the Space 2.0 Summit in San Jose, California, the hotel, dubbed Aurora Station, will host six people at a time (including two crew) on 12 - day trips in Earth orbit, starting at $ 9.5 million per person.

During Gallileos's time mainstream science believed the sun orbited the earth.