Sentences with phrase «zipping around earth»

While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet's surface, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a 220 - pound (100 kilograms) rover across a moon - mimicking landscape here at NASA's Ames Research Center, even ordering the robot to deploy a simulated film - based radio telescope antenna.

But the growing number of artificial objects zipping around Earth has inspired a more synthetic form of skygazing: the new sport of satellite watching.

Not exact matches

Solar wind creates a huge magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere, that protects Earth and the other planets from energetic subatomic particles that constantly zip around in deep space.

According to NASA, just by being on the planet earth in the last year, you've zipped about 584 million miles around the sun to get back where you were.

The International Space Station is whizzing around the Earth at a speed of approximately 17,200 miles per hour (27,600 kilometers per hour) and, as a result, astronauts on board experience 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets per day as their travel speed zips them around the globe once every 90 minutes or so.