Sentences with phrase «occultation satellite»

Not exact matches

According to the data obtained from the stellar occultation, the ring lies on the equatorial plane of the dwarf planet, just like its biggest satellite, Hi'iaka, and it displays a 3:1 resonance with respect to the rotation of Haumea, which means that the frozen particles which compose the ring rotate three times slower around the planet than it rotates around its own axis.

But even if the remote satellite did not provide a 100 % occultation picking out objects otherwise lost in the glare should be possible.

This European Space Agency (ESA) satellite for direct - pointing and lunar - occultation observation of X-ray sources beyond the solar system was launched into a highly eccentric orbit (apogee 200,000 km, perigee 500 km) almost perpendicular to that of the moon on May 26, 1983.

Space - based GNSS radio occultation measurements onboard satellites such as CHAMP, GRACE, and Formosat3 / COSMIC are well suited to detect such ionization enhancements in the bottomside ionosphere.