Sentences with phrase «european space probe»

The European space probe Huygens landed on Titan on January 14, 2005, and saw signs of liquid flow on its surface.

Mercury is the target of BepiColombo, the European space probe to be launched this Fall, led by the European Spatial Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration agency.

The launch of the European space probe Rosetta, which must occur before the end of January in order to touch down on the comet, has now been postponed indefinitely.

Not exact matches

On 30 September, the European Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space space rock.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite has used ground - penetrating radar in some areas to look for a water table but found no evidence for one, despite research that concluded any water would be found within 9 kilometres of the surface — well within the reach of the probe's instruments.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

Measurements of the afterglow from the Big Bang by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission yield predictions for the Hubble constant that are 5 percent and 9 percent smaller, respectively.

When Cassini dropped the European Space Agency's Huygens probe onto the surface of Titan in 2005, scientists were surprised to discover an Earthlike world with craggy mountains, broad plains, eroded coastlines, and familiar - looking weather patterns.

NASA has spacecraft orbiting Saturn, Mars, the moon, and the sun and will soon have one around Mercury; the European Space Agency (ESA) has probes around the sun and Venus.

Earlier this month another interplanetary explorer caught a striking glimpse of Earth, this one captured as the spacecraft, a European probe called Rosetta, approached our planet from deep space.

One year ago, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygens probe finally landed on Titan, Saturn's moon, after a 7 - year journey aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the comet on Wednesday, 12 November, has not moved from its landing spot and so its solar panels are not getting enough sunlight.

NASA and the European Space Agency have launched probes that will visit comets, narrowing down the possible ingredients that might have been showered on early Earth.

Next month, the European Space Agency will launch a space probe with a deceptively modest Space Agency will launch a space probe with a deceptively modest space probe with a deceptively modest goal.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has reached its final resting place after two years in orbit around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko

As the Huygens probe prepared to plunge into the atmosphere of Titan, the scientists at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, kept warning the packed auditorium full of colleagues and journalists to «expect the unexpected.»

Huygens, a disk - shaped probe built by the European Space Agency (and named after Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch astronomer who discovered Titan), should rectify the situation.

The mission, which kicked into high gear when the probe started orbiting comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in August 2014, has officially had its funding extended to September 2016, the European Space Agency announced June 23.

But then in 2014, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe arrived at Comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko, another Jupiter family comet.

He is involved with the surface science package for Huygens, a European Space Agency probe that will parachute into Titan's atmosphere in January 2005.

While earthbound scientists have been observing Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko for years now, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which was dispatched in 2004 to map and study the comet, caught the first glimpse of its target in only the last few weeks.

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.

Intriguingly, the results of their analysis appear to be inconsistent with deductions from the results of the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, the leading space mission probing the fundamental properties of the UnivSpace Agency's Planck satellite, the leading space mission probing the fundamental properties of the Univspace mission probing the fundamental properties of the Universe.

The European Space Agency (ESA) probe has already beamed back incredible pictures of a wildly alien landscape.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that last night it received a signal from the stricken Mars probe Phobos - Grunt.

Eric Hébrard counts himself lucky to have worked on the European Space Agency's Huygens probe, which landed on Saturn's Moon Titan in January 2005.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — After the Philae probe bounced its way to a tenuous, unanchored perch on a comet — a bittersweet victory for the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Rosetta mission — Fred Jansen cried in the control room.

The European Space Agency's Venus Express space probe has now taken the first picture of the same phenomenon on another plSpace Agency's Venus Express space probe has now taken the first picture of the same phenomenon on another plspace probe has now taken the first picture of the same phenomenon on another planet.

WFIRST's data should complement the observations of several other dark - energy explorers set to come online in the early 2020s, such as the European Space Agency's Euclid probe, says Rachel Mandelbaum, an astrophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Additionally, the agency plans to turn off five American solar probes and stop paying for its portion of the Ulysses solar probe, operated jointly with the European Space Agency.

ScienceCasts: How to Land on a Comet 05 November 2014 The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is about to attempt something «ridiculously difficult» - landing a probe on the surface of a speeding comet.

The only other probe that's photographed a comet's nucleus is the European Space Agency's probe Giotto, which encountered Comet Halley in 1986.

Flight controllers for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express probe halted plans to deploy the second boom in a series of antennas that comprise the spacecraft's subsurface radar instrument after detecting an anomaly on May 7.

Like the long - duration space missions that came before it — the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the twin Voyager probes and, more recently, the European Rosetta mission, for example — Cassini irrevocably changed our perspectives, become ingrained in the lives of the people who worked with the mission and had tangible impacts on society.

NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage from 6 - 8:30 a.m. PST (9 - 11:30 a.m. EST) of the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission's scheduled landing of a probe on a comet on Wednesday, Nov. 12.

The European Space Agency reflects on the discoveries made by the NASA / ESA / ISA Cassini - Huygens probe.

Japan is planning a joint mission with the European Space Agency (ESA) called BepiColombo, which will orbit Mercury with two probes: one to map the planet and the other to study its magnetosphere.

Eight facilities worldwide participated, observing before, during and after the Huygens probe mission, led by the European Space Agency.

As the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched a space probe early this morning from the Russian Kosmodrom in Baikonur, Kazakhstan to study trace gases in the Martian atmosphere, a planetary scientist from Western University eagerly watched online from his home in London,Space Agency (ESA) and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched a space probe early this morning from the Russian Kosmodrom in Baikonur, Kazakhstan to study trace gases in the Martian atmosphere, a planetary scientist from Western University eagerly watched online from his home in London,Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched a space probe early this morning from the Russian Kosmodrom in Baikonur, Kazakhstan to study trace gases in the Martian atmosphere, a planetary scientist from Western University eagerly watched online from his home in London,space probe early this morning from the Russian Kosmodrom in Baikonur, Kazakhstan to study trace gases in the Martian atmosphere, a planetary scientist from Western University eagerly watched online from his home in London, Ont.

To get a closer look, the European Space Agency launched the Venus Express probe in 2005.

For instance, during the decade it orbited Venus, the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier prSpace Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier prspace, something discovered by earlier probes.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe continues to image and study the surface of the Red Planet and gather data about the Martian atmosphere today, nearly 10 years after arriving in orbit around Mars.

In 1990, NASA and the European Space Agency launched the Ulysses probe to make the first observations of its polar regions.

This infrared image shows a laser beam signal from NASA's LADEE moon probe as seen in infrared by the European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station in Tenerife, Spain on Oct. 26, 2013.

The European Space Agency's probe was lost in 2003.

Dating from the European movement's heyday between the First and Second World War, when Surrealism's psychic, sociocultural probings dominated the School of Paris, its soft, drooping pocket - watches scattered around a barren landscape create an unforgettable image of the pliability of time and space.