Sentences with phrase «lunar orbiter missions»

The tapes from the Lunar Orbiter missions were primarily used to locate landing sites for the manned Apollo missions, and once those missions were over, the data was largely forgotten.

For its inaugural presentation at the Dallas Art Fair the Jason Jacques Gallery will present a curated selection of contemporary ceramic art juxtaposed with rare black - and - white photographs from NASA's famous lunar orbiter missions in the 1960s.

The crater catalogue roughly doubles the size of that produced in 1978 by Don Wilhelms of the U.S. Geological Survey and his colleagues using photographs from NASA's Lunar Orbiter missions in the mid-1960s.

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Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

The country's first lunar forays — orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010 — were more engineering demonstrations than scientific missions, but that changed with the first lander, Chang «e-3.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has been investigating the lunar surface since Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has been investigating the lunar surface since lunar surface since 2009.

The House proposal would also allow NASA to keep all its aging planetary explorers; the White House «had essentially proposed defunding two of the missions — the Opportunity Mars rover and the 5 - year - old Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.»

Just a few months into its mission, NASA's newest Mars orbiter is finding an assortment of oddities in the Martian atmosphere, researchers report March 18 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

An odd offset of the ice from the moon's current north and south poles was a tell - tale indicator to Siegler and prompted him to assemble a team of experts to take a closer look at the data from NASA's Lunar Prospector and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

The announcement followed a scientific review of the missions; it was feared that two of them — the Mars rover Opportunity and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter — would be shut down.

NASA missions planned for launch a year from now — the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)-- should provide a clearer picture, and India's Chandrayaan - 1 mission will carry a less sensitive radar system.

The White House had essentially proposed defunding two of the missions — the Opportunity Mars rover and the 5 - year - old Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter — in its request.

Kring says that even given the uncertainties in the future of manned spaceflight in the U.S., the lunar orbiter is a mission whose time has come.

Two weeks ago, Colaprete made a last - minute switch to target Cabeus after the sister mission to LCROSS, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), began to find evidence of increased hydrogen within the crater.

Among now operating planetary missions, the agency expects to zero out the Mars Opportunity rover, the Mars Odyssey orbiter, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Oorbiter, and the Lunar Reconnaissance OrbiterOrbiter.

As well as Europa, the new NASA budget also provides the necessary funding to continue both the Opportunity rover mission on Mars and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon, both of which had been zeroed out in the President's earlier budget proposal.

NASA»S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) misLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mislunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) misLunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future missions to the moon.

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MSSS also built the suite of high resolution cameras aboard the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and has delivered four science cameras for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission and one for the 2011 Juno Mission to Jmission and one for the 2011 Juno Mission to JMission to Jupiter.

In 2004, MSSS was selected to provide three camera systems (four total cameras) for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover and three cameras for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission.

In 2019, the David Guiraud Gallery is going to present a major exhibition on NASA's Lunar Orbiter, Gemini and Apollo missions that put the first man on the Moon.