Sentences with phrase «when space probes»

Not exact matches

Although Saturn was visited by three spacecraft in the 1970s and 1980s, my fellow scientists and I couldn't have imagined what the Cassini space probe would discover during its sojourn at the ringed planet when it launched 20 years ago.

The light's wavelength can also change noticeably when photons are scattered off ionised gas moving through space, providing a way to probe the velocity of such gas.

«The UAE Mars probe represents the Islamic world's entry into the era of space exploration,» said UAE president Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan last year when the probe was first announced.

«When more - powerful detectors provide us with more observations,» Mészáros said, «we also will be able to use Fast Radio Bursts as a probe of their host galaxies, of the space between galaxies, of the cosmic - web structure of the universe, and as a test of fundamental physics.»

Comet researchers got a bonus in 2001 when NASA's Deep Space 1 probe zipped by comet Borrelly.

Back in 2003 the same team warned in an article published in Nature of the drastic reduction in winds on the cloud level with respect to what had been observed when the Voyager space probes visited the planet.

When Cassini dropped the European Space Agency's Huygens probe onto the surface of Titan in 2005, scientists were surprised to discover an Earthlike world with craggy mountains, broad plains, eroded coastlines, and familiar - looking weather patterns.

Finally it showed that our solar system is larger than previously thought: when the mission ended, with the probe 6.2 billion miles from Earth, it was still detecting solar - wind particles, indicating that it had not yet crossed the heliopause — the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

When the letter claims that NASA space probes have spotted enormous forests on Mars and requests an investigation, you really take notice, though maybe not the way the writer had in mind.

The mission, which kicked into high gear when the probe started orbiting comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in August 2014, has officially had its funding extended to September 2016, the European Space Agency announced June 23.

What might a space probe see when it gets there?

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues answer the question of why NASA's Voyager 1, when it became the first probe to enter interstellar space in mid-2012, observed a magnetic field that was inconsistent with that derived from other spacecraft observations.

That's why Sascha Kempf grew excited when a NASA space probe named Cassini ran into clouds of dust as it sped toward Saturn in 2004.

Which is roughly where things stood until last year when Princeton bioengineers Marina Feric and Cliff Brangwynne published a paper in Nature Cell Biology describing their probing of cellular inner space, the cell nucleus, and their discovery that gravity could limit cell size.

But the space agency made history with Mariner 9, which became the first probe ever to orbit another planet when it arrived at Mars in November 1971.

When the probe launched in January 2006, it was the fastest probe ever sent into space.

When a probe called Eve comes to find plant life, Wall - E falls in love, and embarks on an adventure through space.

Complications ensue when the roguish, disgraced genetically - engineered space cop Caine Wise (Tatum) saves Jupiter and continues to spirit her away from space calamity after space calamity, from nasty probing grey aliens to bounty hunters to a politically motivated but dangerous marriage to one of the Abrasax children (Douglas Booth).

Dating from the European movement's heyday between the First and Second World War, when Surrealism's psychic, sociocultural probings dominated the School of Paris, its soft, drooping pocket - watches scattered around a barren landscape create an unforgettable image of the pliability of time and space.

Like climate satellites, space probes only work if mission control is still in business when deep space instuments and cameras get to their distant destinations.

While the satellite dataset has its strengths, unlike thermometers and temperature probes used on weather balloons the Microwave Sounding Units were new, largely untested tools when they were put into space.

When an astronaut gets arrested, there is one place a legal - blog - watcher should rocket for perspective: Jesse Londin's blog Space Law Probe.