Their plutonium power sources will stop generating electricity in about 10-15 years, at which point their instruments and transmitters will die.
It is expected that their plutonium power sources will stop supplying electricity in about 10 years, at which point their instruments and their 20W transmitters will die.
The team is taking the opportunity to point their instruments at our neighboring planet; we haven't visited there in a long time.
On one of Billy Shiels's fabled vessels you head out to the islands with 60-odd others, drawn there by the sanctuary they provide for 23 species of seabirds and a sprawling colony of seals, which seem puzzled at these creatures who jostle and stretch to point their digital instruments in their direction.
At a recent "informancy," or progress-report concert, about 100 children at one point handed their instruments to their parents, who were then guided in pizzicato performances of simple songs.
Any substantial rainfall would force a cancellation, Ms. Moss announced from the stage, for the players, and more to the point, their valuable instruments were unprotected from the elements.
The trumpeters, for example, point out that their instruments do not have small air holes to adjust pitch, the way many others do.
Think Paul Weller's gum-chewing and the various bands who made a point of performing with their instruments upside down (rock'n'roll, eh?).
At one point, all five musicians set their instruments aside and just clapped and stomped, making rhythm overlap and tease the ear.
Mr. Wiggin's dream didn't come true in his lifetime; he died in 1975 at 47, at which point his daughters put down their instruments and seldom played again.
Current detectors for Very-High-Energy γ-ray astrophysics are either pointing instruments with a small field of view (Cherenkov telescopes), or large field-of-view instruments with relatively large energy thresholds (extensive air shower detectors).
