• Descent To The Surface is the second album by rock group Sweethead. It was released on April 8, 2016 and is the follow-up to their 2009 self titled debut...
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  • The Descent is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film stars actresses Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid...
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    of Queens of the Stone Age or Mark Lanegan Band. Sweethead have released two studio albums—Sweethead (2009) and Descent to the Surface (2016)—and one...
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    into the Venusian atmosphere on December 9, 1978. All four probes transmitted data throughout their descent to the surface. One probe survived the landing...
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    A Mars landing is a landing of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Of multiple attempted Mars landings by robotic, uncrewed spacecraft, ten have had...
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    Troy Van Leeuwen (category American people of Dutch descent)
    Leeuwen on Sweethead's Descent To The Surface. An EP wwa released in the summer of 2016, and the band released a studio album early the next year. In 2017...
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  • The Descent Part 2 is a 2009 British adventure horror film and sequel to the 2005 horror film The Descent. It was directed by Jon Harris from a screenplay...
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    to be used during the descent. Engineers expected to get at most only 30 minutes of data from the surface. The Huygens probe system consists of the 318 kg...
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  • the mountain, Yates completed his descent to the surface of the glacier, but cannot find his partner, and concludes that Simpson must have fallen to the...
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  • the direction of steepest descent. Conversely, stepping in the direction of the gradient will lead to a trajectory that maximizes that function; the procedure...
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    orbit to the Moon's surface. During takeoff, the spent descent stage was used as a launch pad for the ascent stage which then flew back to the command...
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  • appeared with Van Leeuwen on Sweethead's Descent to the Surface. The band has released one EP and two studio albums to date. Troy Sanders – lead vocals, bass...
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    Space Race (redirect from The Space Race)
    above the surface, the point where the powered descent to the surface would begin. With the LM proven to work well, the next step was to attempt the landing...
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    on Sweethead's Descent to the Surface. They released an EP in the summer of 2016, shortly followed by a studio album, Echolocation, the following year...
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    Chandrayaan programme (category Missions to the Moon)
    Chandrayaan-2 attained the lunar Orbit on 20 August. On 6 September 2019, during the descent to the surface, the contact with the lander was lost after...
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    NEAR Shoemaker (category Missions to near-Earth asteroids)
    6 km) to the surface and, on January 28, passed 2 to 3 km from the asteroid. The spacecraft then made a slow controlled descent to the surface of Eros...
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    inside the submersible, the hatch would be bolted shut and could only be reopened from the outside. The descent from the surface to the Titanic wreck typically...
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  • The Descent is a 1999 science fiction/horror novel by American author Jeff Long. It describes the discovery and exploration of an extensive labyrinth...
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    Index (crater) (category Impact craters on the Moon)
    landmarks during descent to the surface. The other three are called Luke, Mark, and Matthew, after three of the four major Gospels of the Bible. They were...
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    Mars Polar Lander (category Missions to Mars)
    Descent Imager (MARDI) Mounted to the bottom of the lander, the camera was intended to capture 30 images as the spacecraft descended to the surface....
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    failed Entry, Descent, and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) of the ExoMars programme—a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Space...
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    take control of the Arteria. As a result, the Cradles lose power and make an emergency descent to the surface, causing many civilians to die from Kojima...
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    Mars Science Laboratory (category Missions to Mars)
    handling the complexity of the entry-descent-landing. Once landed, the applications were replaced with software for driving on the surface and performing...
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    West (lunar crater) (category Impact craters on the Moon)
    lander flew over the crater at an altitude of about 100 meters. The boulder field that Armstrong saw a need to avoid during the descent was the ejecta of West...
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    Charles Duke (category Converts to Protestantism from atheism or agnosticism)
    descent stage's propellant. Duke's first words to the Apollo 11 crew on the surface of the Moon were: "Roger, Twank...Tranquility, we copy you on the...
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    high-definition 3-D cameras; it reached the ocean's deepest point after two hours and 36 minutes of descent from the surface. Deepsea Challenger was built in...
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    Viking program (category Missions to Mars)
    and separated from the orbiter for descent to the surface. Descent comprised four distinct phases, starting with a deorbit burn. The lander then experienced...
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    ascents and descents, or be lowered and lifted by the surface team, either by their umbilical, or on a diving stage, or in a diving bell. Descent rates are...
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    Luna 15 (category Missions to the Moon)
    finished the first human moonwalk, Luna 15, a robotic Soviet spacecraft in lunar orbit at the time, began its descent to the lunar surface. Launched...
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  • List of artificial objects on Mars (category Surface features of Mars)
    The following table is a partial list of artificial objects on the surface of Mars, consisting of spacecraft which were launched from Earth. Although most...
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