Sentences with phrase «view of the planet»

This full view of Earth, taken by the satellite in January, is arguably one of the most detailed whole views of the planet.

While rocketing 60 miles above Earth at three times the speed of sound, the lucky brothers Winklevii will glimpse a killer view of our planet while experiencing weightlessness for a few minutes.

This modern watch features a streamlined silicon wristband design and a vibrant view of a planet in deep space on the dial.

The late 1600s brought fantastical views of our planet's interior such this one by Athanasius Kircher.

Hutton's work became the basis of modern geology, inspired Charles Darwin and prefigured plate tectonics, volcanology, geobiology and the Gaia Hypothesis, a late - 20th - century view of the planet as a single self - regulating organism.

The deal - breaker for him was the problem of diffraction — light's tendency to bend around the edge of an optical barrier, thus ruining any hopes of getting unobstructed high - resolution views of a planet.

Its 5 inch aperture ensures that it gathers plenty of light for great views of the planets and Moon, as well as brighter galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

In total, the mission gave us 21 complete images of Mars, including this, our first close view of the planet — courtesy of data transmitted by the interplanetary probe and earth - bound scientists wielding pastels (below).

These images, showing different views of the planet as it rotates through the day, will be available 12 to 36 hours after they are acquired.

«It's a new view of the planet.»

That gave it a nice close - up view of the planet's magnetic field.

The images show filamentary and cumulus clouds, along with a good view of the planet's giant hurricane (middle).

Images of this quality will provide the global context for Juno's close - up views of the planet at the same wavelength.»

Dust is a natural byproduct of the planet - formation process, but too much of it can block our view of planets.

Understanding the composition of past water on Mars has helped researchers shape their view of the planet's watery history.

© John Whatmough — larger image (Artwork from Extrasolar Visions, used with permission) View of planet d from its cloud deck with rings, moons, star - like planets b and c, and ups And, as imagined by Whatmough.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 and captured spectacular views of the planet's rings and moons.

A jet stream within the Earth's molten iron core has been discovered by scientists using the latest satellite data that helps create an «x-ray» view of the planet.

Before it goes, though, the spacecraft will be used to obtain the first - ever samples of Saturn's atmosphere and particles from the main rings, and scientists hope that it will be able to capture the closest - ever views of the planet's clouds and inner rings, the agency added.

Another view of planet b losing its atmosphere, as imagined by Kulmann (more).

Jupiter's atmospheric marvels are not limited to its equatorial regions however; Juno has provided unprecedented views of the planet's poles, where massive cyclones churn with unearthly ferocity.

On January 14, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its first «flyby» of Mercury, providing the first close - up view of the planet in 33 years (more from MESSENGER and APOD).

Scientists have promised close - up views of the planet when Juno skims the cloud tops during the 20 - month, $ 1.1 billion mission.

She's one of the early adopters of Google Earth, a mapping program that pastes together satellite images from around the world to provide a complete, searchable — no, visitable — aerial view of the planet.

You can zoom in or out to your pleasure, from a view of the planet from space right down to a close - up helicopter view of the street you're driving upon.

These beaches make for prime viewing of the planet's most spectacular sunsets.

Turn your eye to the sky and visit the William D. McDowell Observatory at Meadowlands Environment Center for a celestial view of our planet's solar system and enjoy an interactive Learning Center.

Just like gears - of - war, this game falls short in attempts to deliver a wholesome view of a planet on the whole.

The first - person perspective afforded me a wonderful view of the planet's weather, as light raindrops blur your vision.

BUD can also call on his new friend POD (Planetary Observation Droid) to get a bird's eye view of the planet he is on.

They share the sense that scientific, or «rational,» thought can reinforce a limited view of our planet and its inhabitants — one that assumes they can and should be controlled.

More than anything else, our venturing into space has taught us to appreciate Earth — it's revolutionized our view of our planet and our understanding of its complexity, and made us see the impact that we're having on it.

He would publish a delightfully boring paper and probably propose a paradox because for some reason his stellar view of the planet didn't explain all the physical properties of the planet.

In addition to producing full, up - to - date and compelling views of our planet, the images taken by EPIC will provide scientists with valuable atmospheric data on the ozone, plant cover, aerosols and clouds.

Composites can result in some truly remarkable images, like this «Black Marble,» which, by stitching together multiple views of the planet, shows a full global view of the Earth's city lights.

Just outside the COP22 Village, U.S. and international youth planted two flags, each with a blue - green marble view of the planet, as if seen from outer space.

Celestron Inspire 80AZ Refractor: Although this straightforward and easily assembled refractor telescope offered good views of the planets in our tests, with an 80 mm aperture, it couldn't compare to the 5 - inch aperture and image quality of our budget pick.

Not exact matches

Skybox Imaging, based in Mountain View, Calif., makes satellites similar to those of Planet Labs, though they are significantly larger.

Because the same side of the moon always faces our planet, such «Earthrise» views only happen when a spacecraft is moving.

Not Business As Usual (the entire hour - long doc is below if you want to give it a view) asks viewers to consider not just a long - term view of how to build a business, but also a holistic — or «conscious» — consideration of how one's business affects the people involved in it, and the planet it relies on to run.

Others bring the blue marble of our home planet into view.

If those people were as engaged as online World Cup viewers — and I'd venture that, on average, they were less engaged than people watching the most popular sporting event on the planet — those 10.7 million digital views would translate into an average - minute TV audience of 28,563 persons.

There they will be weightless and look out on «the vastness of space and life - changing views of our blue planet,» according to the company.

For more information and to view photo / video highlights of past Expeditions, please visit: http://spaceangels.com/expedition Companies and organizations who've participated in previous Expeditions include: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Planet [Labs], Facebook, Made in Space, Terra Bella, Planetary Resources, Spaceflight Industries, BlackSky Global, Ventions, Spire, Kymeta, Tethers Unlimited, Oculus, XCOR, Masten, Final Frontier Design, B612 Foundation, SETI Institute, Museum of Flight, Mojave Air & Spaceport, Boeing, NASA Ames, and more.

I often tell religious folks not to limit themselves to The Bible, because like our planet being only one of many in the universe, The Bible is a limited point of view.

You have to tell yourself that in order to feel good about using a crutch of a god in your life because you can't truly cope with the reality of living on this planet, dealing with others that don't view life as you do.

After further observation of the planets, he came to agree with Copernicus» view that the earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa.

Stars, well known, have disappeared, new ones have come into view, comets, in their incalculable courses, may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other laws; certain races of animals are become extinct; and, were there no restoring power, all existences might extinguish successively, one by one, until all should be reduced to a shapeless chaos.

For example, from the time of 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, the earth was viewed as the center of the universe, called the geocentric theory, with the sun and planets revolving around it.