Sentence examples for distant lunar from inspiring English sources

As Byron and Ames watch the moon go dark, the earth casting its shadow on the distant lunar surface, their isolation feels as vast as eternity.

This prediction can never be found wanting since there is a new or full moon every fortnight so most of time is covered, and the qualifier 'usually' caters for the few days distant from the lunar events.

Assuming that a refueling "gas station" is present at a given lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO), ways of departing from the Earth to Mars via that DRO are analyzed.

Some painters took the hint: witness Richard Hamilton's rendering of a tabloid shot of Mick Jagger under arrest, and Vija Celmins's of photographs of the lunar surface, too distant to capture the footprints of Neil Armstrong but attended by the thought of them.

He said he imagined someone in the far distant future would find "our lunar rover and our footprints and those initials and say, 'I wonder who was here?

More distant images of Earth were captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from the Moon at a distance of over 200,000 miles away.

Knowledge gained from building and maintaining colonies on the lunar surface would be invaluable to designers of similar constructions on distant planets.

Called "Moon," it told the story of a blue-collar worker in a distant decade, laboring in solitude at a base on the dark side of the lunar surface.

Moon suggests that working as a lunar mining engineer would be a lonely, and perilous, existence and the distant worlds we glimpse in Interstellar seem far from inviting.

Rocket exhaust gases during Lunar Module (LM) ascent caused dust and debris to (i) contaminate instruments 17 m distant (Apollo 11) as expected, and (ii) unexpectedly cleanse Apollo hardware 130 m (Apollo 12) and 180 m (Apollo 14) from LM. TDS photos uniquely document in situ cohesion of dust particles and their adhesion to 12 different test surfaces.

IT IS often described as the world's biggest recurring movement of people: a 40-day period spanning the lunar new year (which fell on February 19th this year), during which astonishing numbers of people travel to join distant family members to celebrate the "spring festival".