Sentence examples for by the red planet from inspiring English sources

It's followed by the red planet: Mars rises about 2 am.

Instead the capsule will coast by the red planet, getting to within a few thousand kilometres of its surface before being flung back to Earth, driven by the force of gravity.

Comet ISON is due to pass by the red planet in September and could be a target for the rover from its vantage point inside Gale Crater.

This would be done by ferrying supplies to the red planet by robot spaceships.

After watching "Mars," and blasting off in a virtual-reality spaceship, being swung up and down by cables, floating over the red planet, and seeing the ground come up to meet my feet, I began to believe we could go there, too.

But it's possible that it could be substantiated by evidence collected from the red planet.

In ancient Greece, the two great luminaries the Sun and the Moon were called Helios and Selene; the farthest planet (Saturn) was called Phainon, the shiner; followed by Phaethon (Jupiter), "bright"; the red planet (Mars) was known as Pyroeis, the "fiery"; the brightest (Venus) was known as Phosphoros, the light bringer; and the fleeting final planet (Mercury) was called Stilbon, the gleamer.

According to the privately funded Dutch-based Mars One space project, there will be a human settlement on the red planet by 2025.

NASA has released a daring new concept for a building that could someday house astronauts on Mars, as the space agency continues push toward its goal of sending humans to the red planet by the 2030s.

Back in June, Musk, who founded and serves as both chief executive and top technology officer of the private space travel company SpaceX, said he hopes to send humans to the red planet by 2026.

Then the planetary scientist Jim Bell will share panoramas of the red planet taken by NASA rovers, which his team has equipped with high-resolution stereoscopic cameras.