Sentence examples for hour descent from inspiring English sources

The majority of Huygens's scientific measurements were taken during its two and a half hour descent.

During its two and a half hour descent it captured valuable information regarding wind speed and direction in Titan's sky at different altitudes.

The capsule touched down to Earth after a three-and-a-half hour descent from the International Space Station, where the torch was taken outside for the first time.

In the end, the eight-hour descent took us four.

Philae touched down on Wednesday afternoon after a seven-hour descent from the Rosetta orbiter.

We crossed an icy stream, traversed a meadow, then, knees throbbing from the three-hour descent, arrived at Rotstockhütte, a two-story stone hut.

Philae touched down on Wednesday afternoon after a seven-hour descent from the Rosetta mothership, but the landing did not go smoothly.

The 3.5-hour descent to Earth was only the second time that an American astronaut had come home in a Russian craft and landed on foreign soil.

After a three-hour descent by torchlight that included abseiling down sheer cliffs, they drove two hours to hospital in Banff where Boswell, who was bleeding badly, was treated for five large puncture wounds.

The European Space Agency's Huygens spacecraft is scheduled to begin its two-and-a-half-hour descent through Titan's dense and mysterious atmosphere shortly after 11 a.m. here (5 a.m. Eastern time).

He marvelled at his twenty-four-hour descent, from that first disquieting glimpse of Stolarsky in the Smoker's Club to this homely immersion in Americana-style cocktail-hour debauchery.