It is not circling the Earth but orbits a point in the Sun-Earth system called the second Lagrange point.
Find this orientation by looking through the crystal at the sky at a time when you can see the sun, mark the sun's direction on the crystal, and your mark will always point towards the sun when you match the beams from even a tiny patch of blue in an otherwise overcast sky.
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They are believed to use the position of the sun as a reference point and can compensate for its movement across the sky when calculating the route they need to return home.
And then, you know, the top side of the leaves, you know, want to point towards the sun. (Unintelligible) take of that.
On November 17, 1998, Voyager 1 became the most distant man-made object from the Sun when it reached a point further away than NASA probe Pioneer 10, which launched in 1972.
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In the morning sun, it is the perfect vantage point from which to get your bearings.
Spirit was supposed to park on a nearby hill for the winter so its solar panels would point more directly toward the sun.
From both a policymaker's and a bank's point of view, says Sun-bae Kim, regional economist at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, going after the consumer makes sense.
On a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon at West Point, the Yankees revived an old tradition, traveling up the Hudson River to play Army, something they hadn't done since 1976.
"There is only so much abuse a man can take until he reaches breaking point, " Adebayor told The Sun.
The sun heats the varnished wooden deck to the point where it feels like an egg broken on the side would fry in an instant.
"There is no reason or need to give up on dialogue at this point, " said Cheon Ho-sun, a spokesman for South Korea's president.
Point the binoculars or telescopes at the sun -- without looking through the lenses -- and aim the other end onto a piece of paper or cardboard.
Early of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, proposed siting a vast, 2000 km-wide glass deflecting panel at the "inner Lagrange point" between the Earth and the sun, the latter diverting the sun's rays away from the Earth's atmosphere.
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With his three new works in the run's rotation of 21 dances, Mr. Taylor warns off anyone from assuming that the sun-filled corner he turned in 1962 was a point of no return.
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Auberge du Soleil literally translates into inn of the sun and with the breathtaking sunset views from nearly every vantage point in the hotel, the name makes sense.
The Sun says voters liken him to a snake, although Downing Street aides point out the other options in the survey included a poodle and a lizard.
At this point in space, the gravity of the Earth and the Sun act in such a way that the telescope will be stationary relative to the Earth and Sun.
At some point Apple turns into GM whereby it has discounted everything under the sun.
Testing a similar crystal, the scientists proved that by rotation it was possible to find the point where the two beams converge - indicating the direction of the Sun.
Fusa Miyake discovered Carbon-14 and Beryllium-10 traces in tree rings from the era, which point to a gamma ray burst from a celestial body other than the Sun.
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On a sun-kissed California day, I dragged my chair across the porch of the Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito and pulled it up next to 71-year-old Randal Charlton, a newly minted 2011 Purpose Prize winner.
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The point, though, is that this was their day and they were entitled to sun their medals in the public square to demonstrate how much their nation owed them and their fallen colleagues.
But every morning he makes a point of spending a few hours outside around his home walking, running, sitting in the sun and enjoying the solitude.
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Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was twice (at Sun and Novell) beaten up by Microsoft through a robust developer network, and has made it a point to cultivate small developers, and swarm the giants, since he arrived at Google.
Indeed, some at the meeting argued that if aliens were to use an astronomical phenomenon called gravitational lensing (in which the gravitational field of the sun bends and amplifies radio waves and light from Earth), human signals could be amplified to the point where even the light from cities would be visible.
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The spacecraft would carry out experiments from a vantage point about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth where there is an uninterrupted view of the Sun.
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