Sentence examples for off the moon from inspiring English sources

When the Earth (and therefore the Moon) is at its perihelion, the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, the sunlight that reflects off the Moon is slightly more intense, causing the full moon's brightness to increase by about 4%, which is imperceptible by the human eye.

When the lid comes off, the moon is gone.

Laser beams can bore through metal and bounce off the moon.

"We want to see if we can detect the signature of Venus' atmosphere spectroscopically from sunlight reflecting off the moon, as if it was a reading coming from a faraway star," Dr. Schneider said.

Laser beams are the only way to bounce light off the Moon because only they are concentrated enough to remain tightly focused during the round trip of roughly half a million miles.

To do this, he will use Hubble to watch for the exquisitely fine fall in the brightness of sunlight reflected off the moon as Venus passes in front of the sun.

The X Prize recognizes that in space tourism's early stages, you're not likely to see golfers teeing off on the moon, as Alan Shepard did on his second space trip in 1971.

Researchers should be able to use these LADEE observations to see whether the impact debris blown off the moons of Pluto will present a hazard to the New Horizons spacecraft when it flies by the ice dwarf planet in July of next year.

"The economy is not zooming off to the moon, but it is taking off again," said David Carbon, economist at DBS Bank in Singapore.

I nodded off remembering my own: swiping a cast-iron anchor and dragging it off under the moon.

On 16 July 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off for the moon.