Sentence examples for planetary standards from inspiring English sources

The Cassini-Huygens mission revealed that Titan's surface is quite young by planetary standards, with only a few large impact craters observed.

By planetary standards Ceres, named after the Roman goddess of agriculture, is tiny, but by asteroidal ones it is a whopper.

Spores of Bacillus atrophaeus (ATCC No. 9372, also known as Bacillus subtilis var. niger, and BSN) were exposed to hydrazine and survivors were enumerated using the NASA standard planetary protection pour plate assay.

At a cost of about $72m £45mm), the MOM is extremely cheap by the standards of planetary missions.

The main goal of the VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access) activity, developed in the framework of the EU-funded project Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure, is the application of Virtual Observatory standards to planetary data, in order to increase their sharing, visualization, interoperability and combination.

We compared these time-varying standard deviations to the Ap (averaged planetary) index (Fig. 14d), a standard quantification of daily global geomagnetic activity as estimated from 13 geomagnetic observatories, varying from 0 to 400 (NOAA 2014).

That really causes problems for the standard model of planetary formation".

The idea is really to have something that's useful both for a young student first being introduced to science, as well as being standard equipment for future planetary explorers.

The deficiency of standard stereo processing system using planetary imagery has been a significant barrier for the geological and geomorphic researches over solid solar system bodies.

In planetary and high earth orbits, most previous standard-size spacecraft used thrusters for their attitude and orbit control, which are not available for nano- and micro-spacecraft missions because of the strict power consumption, space, and weight constraints.

AOSAT-I takes advantage of low-cost, off-the-shelf components, modular design, and the rapid assembly and instrumentation of the CubeSat standard, to answer fundamental questions in planetary science and reduce cost and risk of future exploration.