10 sentences with 'satellite'
Example sentences and phrases with the word satellite and other words derived from it.
• « Researchers have been able to accurately match the colours they see on satellite maps to the location of individual species. »
• « More advances are expected - satellite maps indicating nutrient concentrations, for example - to take advantage of the information provided by these privileged observers of the planet. »
• « In 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth, an event that was seen as a major Soviet triumph in the Cold War. »
• « But Hawking joined the huge sigh of relief from cosmologists in April 1992, when NASA's Cosmic Background, Explorer (COBE) satellite discovered distant ripples or fluctuations in the cosmic radiation, indicating that at the time of the Big Bang, 15 billion years ago, there was an uneven distribution of matter and radiation. »
• « "These are the kind of fluctuations in space that we predicted, and they are tremendously important," says Stephen Hawking. If the COBE satellite hadn't detected them, the whole physics theory of the Big Bang might have to be abandoned. »
• « Io, Jupiter's natural satellite, is the size of our moon. But its soil composition and chemistry have nothing to do with our satellite: it is a living volcano, a sulphur satellite. »
• « In 1979, the Voyager I and II spacecraft photographed the satellite Io to the astonishment of scientists, who discovered eight plumes of gases between 70 and 280 kilometres high above the surface, spreading out to cover areas of more than a thousand kilometres. These gaseous plumes, rising at a speed of between half a kilometre and a kilometre per second, were erupting from violently erupting volcanoes. »
• « But why so much volcanic activity on Jupiter's satellite? It is thought to be because the satellite's orbital position is so close to Jupiter: just 421,800 kilometres, only 40,225 kilometres more than the distance from the Earth to the Moon. »
• « After the six voyages of the Apollo missions, the Earth's natural satellite has become an old acquaintance, fully qualified and studied. »