Sentence examples for exploring the lunar from inspiring English sources
Although none spent more than 22 hours exploring the lunar landscape, most came back indelibly marked by the experience.
In 13 flawless launchings, Saturn. 5. rockets sent nine crews of astronauts to' the vicinity of the moon, six of the crews landing and exploring the lunar surface.
Such differences could become critical when people begin exploring the lunar surface, because they can affect "how they know they're going where they should be going," Young says.
A principal problem in exploring the lunar ionosphere using the AKR is calculating theoretical phase patterns accurately.
Armstrong spent two-and-a-half hours exploring the lunar surface, and somewhat surprisingly, his heart rate during the mission was much lower than expected -- even lower than the heart rates of some scientists back at Mission Control.
The time spent on EVA during Apollo 11 was about two and a half hours, the shortest of any of the six Apollo lunar landing missions; each of the subsequent five landings were allotted gradually longer periods for EVA activities the crew of Apollo 17, by comparison, spent over 22 hours exploring the lunar surface.
The scientific objective of the mission is to explore the lunar interior using seismometry and heat-flow measurements.
The scientific objective of the LUNAR-A Japanese Penetrator Mission is to explore the lunar interior by seismic and heat-flow experiments.
The game is a multidisciplinary composition that simulates a set of lunar roving activities including planning a traversing route, loading communication and science equipment onto the lunar rover, and driving the rover to explore the lunar surface.
All three of these probes orbited the Moon, but their successors, aside from Chang'e 2 (scheduled for launch in 2010), will be robotic rovers that will explore the lunar surface: Chandrayaan-2, Selene-2 (a follow-up to Kaguya), and Chang'e 3.
Harrison Schmitt was the first qualified geologist to be sent to explore the lunar surface.
