Sentences with phrase «climate orbiter»

The Mars Color Imager (MARCI) medium angle unit (image # 2, left) and wide angle unit (image # 2, right) are presently on the Mars Climate Orbiter, awaiting environmental testing at the Lockheed Martin facility.

The probe failed just before reaching Mars — a fate shared by the agency's Mars Climate Orbiter, which blasted off in December 1998.

MSSS cameras include those aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Survyeor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), Cosmos 1, the Phoenix Mars Lander (PHX), and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

MSSS, a small, privately - owned company of ~ 60 employees located in San Diego, CA provides products and services in three main areas: Cameras for spacecraft; Spacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars Lander (PHX).

MARCI will recover the objectives of the Mars Climate Orbiter MARCI wide angle camera, which was lost during orbit insertion in September 1999.

MSSS has produced visible and ultraviolet cameras for the Mars Global Surveyor (1996), Mars Climate Orbiter (1998), Mars Polar Lander (1999), Mars Odyssey (2001), Cosmos 1 (2005), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005), Mars Scout Phoenix (2007), Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009), a classified U.S. spacecraft, and the Mars Science Laboratory rover (2011).

11 The $ 125 million Mars Climate Orbiter crashed on the Red Planet because the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used metric units, while engineers at Lockheed Martin used feet and pounds.

Observations by Japan's Venus climate orbiter Akatsuki have revealed an equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of the planet's atmosphere, a finding that could be pivotal to unraveling a phenomenon called superrotation.

The lowest cost and lowest priority large missions recommended were a Venus Climate Orbiter at $ 2.4 billion and a spacecraft to orbit Saturn's ice - spewing moon Enceladus at $ 1.9 billion.

Talk about failure to communicate: In 1999, the $ 125 million Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in Martian orbit because navigation software used metric units while the thrusters were programmed to follow English measurements.

Not exact matches

For now, however, the latest findings show that olivine can play a significant role in shaping a planet's climate, says Bethany Ehlmann of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who led the Martian orbiter discovery.

The scientists relied on data from the pair of GRACE satellites — NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment orbiters launched in 2002 — that measure subtle changes in Earth's gravitational field, which are often the result of shifting water, whether on the surface or deep beneath it.

Mars has a relatively well studied climate, going back to measurements made by Viking, and continued with the current series of orbiters, such as the Mars Global Surveyor.

Climate, weather, and north polar observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Color Imager M. C. Malin, W. M. Calvin, B. A. Cantor, R. T. Clancy, R. M. Haberle, P. B. James, P. C. Thomas, M. J. Wolff, J. F. Bell III, and S. W. Lee Icarus 194, 501 — 512, doi: 10.1016 / j.icarus.2007.10.016, April 2008.

Mars has a relatively well studied climate, going back to measurements made by Viking, and continued with the current series of orbiters, such as the Mars Global Surveyor.