Sentence examples for apocenter from inspiring English sources
noun
The furthest point of an astronomical object in an elliptical orbit to its center of attraction (the principal focus of the ellipse)
This measurement sequence is repeated every two hours when the spacecraft is orbiting at apocenter.
The pixel field-of-view corresponds to a spatial resolution of 70 km viewed from the apocenter.
These images complement the observations of the Venus Express spacecraft, which cannot continuously monitor the northern hemisphere of the planet due to its elliptical orbit with apocenter above the south pole.
Since solar irradiation scattered by the atmosphere is much weaker than the atmospheric thermal radiation, LIR can continuously monitor a hemispheric wind field independent of the local time of the apocenter throughout the mission life.
The spatial resolution of the IR1 and UVI images shown in Fig. 6a, b is ~15 km/pixel, which is three or four times better than that (~50 km/pixel) of the images obtained by the Venus Express VMC near the apocenter (Titov et al. 2012).
The eccentricity is such that stars linger at the orbital apocenter, creating a concentration of stars.
These plumes apparently spout when Europa is nearly at its apocenter, or farthest point from Jupiter, and are not seen when Europa is almost at its pericenter, or closest point to Jupiter.
