Sentences with phrase «esa orbiter»

In addition, a U.K. scientific team is proposing to put a penetrator (pdf), about half a meter long and carrying a small scientific payload, on board either the NASA or ESA orbiter, to be detached and sent crashing into the surface of Europa or Ganymede.

«If the ESA orbiter does not get confirmed, the NASA orbiter can go alone and do fantastic science,» NASA's Clark says.

«And vice versa, if the NASA orbiter ends up not getting through the process, then the ESA orbiter can go alone and again do fantastic science on its own, as well.»

The NASA probe would also make close flybys of another Jovian moon, Io, while the ESA orbiter, dubbed Laplace (named for the French mathematician and astronomer), would investigate Callisto as well as Ganymede.

According to observations made by NASA and ESA orbiters, the extremely close flyby of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring was accompanied by a meteor shower larger than any seen on Earth.

Not exact matches

The story begins with a 2008 agreement between NASA and ESA to share the costs of sending the Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars in a 2016 mission, followed by a European rover and a U.S. rover in 2018.

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) and India's Mars Orbiter Mission joined the 2003 Mars Express from ESA (the European Space Agency) and two from NASA: the 2001 Mars Odyssey and the 2006 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

Back in December 2003 a bold and decidedly British robotic device was released from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter.

The above 2 - shot mosaic of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko was taken by ESA's Rosetta orbiter at an effective altitude of just 19.9 kilometers.

Originally an ESA - only lander mission, it was merged with NASA plans in 2009 and ended up as a two - craft mission: the first in 2016 will be an orbiter devoted to atmospheric sampling, followed by a large lander in 2018 which would have the capability to dig below the surface.

The first results have arrived from the Mars Express orbiter, and European Space Agency (ESA) scientists are jubilant.

Previous medium - class missions by ESA were Solar Orbiter and a dark - energy / dark - matter observatory called Euclid, selected in 2011.

Also, a European Space Agency (ESA) orbiter, launched separately, would focus on the planet's largest moon Ganymede, while a Japanese probe would monitor Jupiter's magnetosphere.

Captured by ESA's Venus Express orbiter, this radiation indicates that the highlands of the planet's southern hemisphere resemble granite, the same material that makes up terrestrial continents.

Sanchez - Cano has investigated the interaction of the comet with energetic particles from the Sun, and the effects of the CME and cometary encounter on the martian atmosphere, using data from ESA's Mars Express mission, NASA's MAVEN and Mars Odyssey orbiters, and the Curiosity rover on the martian surface.

Meanwhile, ESA reports that the Trace Gas Orbiter — the main scientific rationale for the ExoMars 2016 mission — is in good health, and is set to begin slowly lowering the altitude of its orbit so that it can begin looking for methane and other gases that could signal life on Mars.

Schiaparelli's descent will still yield useful data, ESA says — and a new Mars orbiter works flawlessly

A series of windows have been programmed to listen for signals coming from the lander via ESA»S Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Mars Atmosphere & Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) probes.

The Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, a joint endeavour between ESA and Roscosmos, arrived at Mars on 19 October.

ESA's Mars Express orbiter is getting a major software upgrade that will extend its service life for years to come.

The institute is the PI institution of the STIX X-ray telescope to be flown onboard ESA's Solar Orbiter mission and is also involved in cubesat projects.

Our Group has built the magnetometer instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft due for launch in 2019 and has scientific involvement in the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission, launching in 2018.

Color - coded topographical map of Mars showing the swathe of landscape captured by ESA's Mars Express orbiter

Color - coded topographical map of Mars showing the swathe of landscape captured by ESA's Mars Express orbiter (Credit: ESA)

This will be followed by the first part of the ESA / Roscosmos ExoMars mission, which will put an orbiter around the planet and a lander down on the surface, to examine the atmosphere and the planet's electric fields, all in preparation for a 2018 followup mission.

In anticipation of the encounter, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and ESA's Mars Express were sent into orbits timed to place them on the opposite of the planet from the incoming debris of the comet's tail.

Scheduled to arrive at the planet Mars this October, this first part of the ExoMars program, consisting of an orbiter and lander, will search for gases in the Martian atmosphere that could indicate signatures of active biological or geological processes, while also testing key entry, descent and landing technologies to support future ESA missions to Mars.

ESA's Rosetta orbiter is preparing to make a daring 6 km (3.7 mile) pass of one of Comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko's most active regions — an area on the comet's larger lobe designated as Imhotep.

New images taken by the ESA's Mars Express orbiter have provided a fresh look at a region believed to be hiding large volumes of water ice just beneath the surface.

The ESA / Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is mere weeks away from commencing its atmospheric search for evidence of recent geological activity, and possibly life on everyone's favorite Red Planet.

The ESA issued a «call for missions» around these aims in 2007 and three medium - class missions were subsequently considered, of which the Solar Orbiter and Euclid missions are the first to be selected.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released new imagery captured by its long - serving Mars Express orbiter.

The speakers include Beagle 2 Manager Mark Sims; U.K. Space Agency Chief Executive David Parker; Alvaro Giménez Cañete, ESA's director of science and robotic exploration; and John Bridges, a science team member on NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) missions.

The lander successfully deployed from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter on Dec. 19 of that year, but no touchdown confirmation came, and most experts think Beagle 2 crashed on the Red Planet's surface.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is making its first scientific observations on Mars.