Sentence examples for scientific outpost from inspiring English sources

The astronaut, who is due to return to Earth next week, said the honour was not for him but for "the hundreds of dedicated staff who have made my Principia mission possible, working together across national boundaries to build, operate and maintain our scientific outpost in space – the International Space Station.

NSF has used the ship each winter since 2006 07 to clear a path through the sea ice to resupply McMurdo Station, the largest scientific outpost in Antarctica and the hub for U.S. activities on the continent.

Not far away is the hard-bitten Russian scientific outpost of Vostok Station, the coldest place on Earth (a winter temp of -128.6 F) and the most isolated of Antarctic stations.

Large floating contraptions, used by scientists to predict the acidity in the oceans, sit off the shore of the scientific outpost of Ny-Alesund, on the island of Spitsbergen in Norway.

Because the base has historically been as low profile as it has been scientifically invaluable, its supporters are now hoping that a final, highly-publicized mission and the help of some Hollywood stars might save the scientific outpost.

Arctic islands and the northern coastline – and scientific outposts there – are disappearing into the sea as permafrost thaws, sea ice melts and wave action increases.

Re: "The Keepers of the Moon" (July 8): While it is wonderful knowing that samples brought back from the Moon are giving us new insights into everything from the age of the universe to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, it is also sad to hear NASA scientists projecting permanent scientific outposts on the Moon by 2020; sad because they have been projecting such outposts for the last 40 years.

Drilling and excavation technology will be fundamental to the exploration of the solar system and the development of scientific outposts.

These days, when glaciologist Peter Adams is not visiting scientific outposts in the Canadian High Artic, he's focused on his involvement in postsecondary education and research at the federal level.

But because of heavy fishing in the last two years, with more than eight million sea cucumbers harvested, "there isn't a large remaining reserve here in the islands," said Graham Edgar, director of marine studies at the Charles Darwin Research Station, the main outpost for scientific studies here.

Rumors had swept the blogs and other outposts of scientific commentary that the experimenters were going to announce that they had finally detected the ethereal and mysterious dark matter particles, which, astronomers say, make up a quarter of the universe.