Been walking my mind to an easy time, my back turned towards the sun.
Careful positioning of the sail should slow the probe down, causing it to fall towards the sun.
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During summer the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun so we get longer days and warmer weather.
And then, you know, the top side of the leaves, you know, want to point towards the sun. (Unintelligible) take of that.
Could any of them account for the slight acceleration towards the sun?
The resultant tidal wobble, so the story goes, dislodges comets from their historical orbits and sends at least some of them tumbling towards the sun.
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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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Mr. JOHN GRAHAM (Smithsonian Air and Space Museum): And we're on a very tight time line, and the reason for that is we need to get to the base of the next hill to the south, which has got north-facing slopes, so that we can get up and basically repeat what we did last winter on Husband Hill: turn the solar panels towards the sun and survive.
In the coves around the town, family groups lie on the beach while I join the swimmers lolling offshore, our heads bobbing in the gilded waters that stretch out towards the setting sun.
The probe was repeatedly turned towards and away from the sun, in the hope that thermal expansion and contraction would free the antenna, but to no avail.
As I began stroking out towards the centre of the lake, the sun shone on my back and butterflies flew around my head.
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His teacher made him start at daybreak, with sun salutations towards the east until he was sweaty and hot.
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Similarly, the pressure exerted by sunlight, and the force exerted by the emissions from each probe's radio antenna, were dismissed: again, both are too weak, and they would tend to push the probes away from the sun, not towards it.
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They concluded that the black drop results from blurring of the image (whether from Earth's atmosphere, or inevitable imperfections of the telescope) combined with the way that the disc of the sun fades in brightness towards its rim.
Big and dark and looking slightly weary, his white tusks flashing in the sun, the elephant walked towards our table with a steady gait, moving with a dogged, fatigued determination.
He stands towards the front of the barque, tall and thin, glasses glinting in the last of the sun.
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This was actually launched in 1998, but it followed a complicated fuel-saving orbit that sent it around the sun and back to Earth, to be slung towards Mars at the same time as the other missions took off.
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For example, changes in the Sun's activity can send huge amounts of energy towards the Earth which buffet and reconfigure the magnetosphere, causing disruption to communications, power-line failures and even the destruction of satellites.
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