Sentence examples for outside the atmosphere from inspiring English sources

The heat-shield and three parachutes on Huygens were designed to slow the probe from 11,200mph outside the atmosphere to 12mph as it landed.

Because of atmospheric absorption, X-ray telescopes must be carried to high altitudes by rockets or balloons or placed in orbit outside the atmosphere.

To reach its cruising height just outside the atmosphere, the Zehst would use clean rocket engines fuelled by liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

The two space planes are now outside the atmosphere, in free fall (i.e. zero gravity) in the immediate vicinity of each other.

Vertical mixing must be sufficiently strong to bring this gas up to a region where it can be detected from outside the atmosphere.

There are at least two basic approaches to ballistic missile defense depending on whether the RV is engaged outside the atmosphere (exoatmospheric) or within the atmosphere (endoatmospheric).

A different brand of humor pierced the cold air outside, where the atmosphere was more carnival-like than hostile.

The crowd here was a fraction of the size of the one outside, and the atmosphere was almost monastic by comparison.

Outside, the jovial atmosphere was summed up by this banner reading 'Go Lizzie Go'.

However, Tory MP Michael Fabricant told journalists waiting outside that the atmosphere inside the meeting was "not a lion's den but a petting zoo".

The spanning of ambient concentrations external to the chamber during logging was performed to reduce the incidence of leaks between the chamber and the outside atmosphere and represents the best estimate of flux with the minimum leakage error [ 33].