Sentence examples for surface of the asteroid from inspiring English sources

This mirror could concentrate the Sun's rays to vaporize the surface of the asteroid, generating an opposite reaction that slowly pushes the space rock off course.

There, using infrared telescopes, two teams of astronomers working separately in 2008 and 2009 found water ice on the surface of the asteroid 24 Themis, about 280 million miles from the Sun.

The company's chief executive, Chris Lewicki, said it planned to attach a probe to asteroids and use inflatable solar reflectors to concentrate the sun's energy on the surface of the asteroid, allowing Planetary Resources to capture water as it is baked out.

Communications had been scheduled to end today, exactly one year after the craft went into orbit around Eros. Engineers signaled NEAR, for Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, to turn on its gamma ray spectrometer, an instrument intended to determine the composition of material on the surface of the asteroid and a few inches below.

Firing lasers at the surface of the asteroid might also be a way to deflect the rock.

The sampler of Hayabusa2 is expected to collect rock samples from the surface of the asteroid during brief touchdowns.

It is suspected that ongoing space weathering alters the surface of the asteroids up to a few (upmu hbox {m}) depth, which modifies the optical and infrared spectra, whereas the XRF probes more than (20,upmu hbox {m}) below the surface and can reveal the true, unweathered, composition (Binzel et al. 2010).

In addition, we now have data from samples returned from Itokawa that constrains the age of the surface of that asteroid.

The collector utilizes a silicone substrate that is pushed into the dust and gravel surface layer of the asteroid.

Important considerations include whether the site consists of boulders or of finer regolith, other observations on the surface morphology of the asteroid to determine the properties of regolith on the body, and global properties such as bulk density.

In 2002, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ISASS) of Japan will send the MUSES-C spacecraft to an asteroid to get the surface material of the asteroid, and return them to the Earth in 2006.