Sentences with phrase «odyssey orbiter»

He was also an investigation scientist for instruments on the Curiosity Rover and Mars Odyssey orbiter.

As the Mars Surveyor 1998 cameras were being built, MSSS was selected in 1997 by Arizona State University to provide the Visible Imaging Subsystem (VIS) of the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) instrument aboard the Mars Odyssey orbiter, and by the Caltech / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide a descent camera for the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.

The Mars Odyssey Orbiter is equipped with three scientific instruments that it uses to explore the Martian surface and atmosphere.

Gale crater photographed from above by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.

Infrared images from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter show how the dust storm is blocking sunlight to the planet's surface.

Water exists in abundance on Mars — as ice seen at the poles by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and frozen into the Martian soil.

«The great news is that NASA has the tools to do that,» said Christensen, who also serves as the principal investigator for the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) aboard NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter currently circling Mars.

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

So Neel sized up four rock glaciers in Colorado and compared them to one of the martian debris flows imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.

In 2002, NASA's Odyssey orbiter detected evidence of ice just beneath the surface of the Martian north pole, raising the possibility that during a warm spell liquid water could melt out — a likely requirement for life.

In April, an Italian radar instrument will search for vast reservoirs of subsurface ice, following up on hints from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.

During its five - plus months on the Red Planet, the robot verified the presence of ice water below the Martian surface (the Mars Odyssey orbiter first spotted water there in 2002).

Another of NASA's Mars probes, the Mars Odyssey orbiter, temporarily stopped relaying data from Spirit and its twin Opportunity back to Earth in November following a glitch, but the problem has since been resolved.

In this case, he was looking at infrared images taken during the Martian nighttime by the THEMIS instrument, which flies aboard the Mars Odyssey orbiter.

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.

Not exact matches

This research benefited from coordinated use of multiple instruments on Mars orbiters, plus the longevities at Mars now exceeding 11 years for MRO and 16 years for Odyssey.

The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

Set for launch in 2009, the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter will become the hub of a network linking the current Mars Global Surveyor and the Mars Odyssey, along with Europe's Mars Express Orbiter, en route to Mars, and the upcoming Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

NeMO's most pressing duty, in many eyes, is to take the baton from veteran NASA spacecraft — the 2001 Mars Odyssey as well as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been on duty since March 2006 — that are at risk of expiring of old age.

«Handling all the data coming from Mars is becoming a challenge for us,» says Barry Geldzahler, the program executive for space operations in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.»

In February NASA's newest orbiter, 2001 Mars Odyssey, settled the questions by revealing that large amounts of frozen water are locked up at Mars's south pole.

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).

NASA's Mars Odyssey and MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) travel near - circular orbits.

The currently available spacecraft — Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — are each roughly a decade old and may soon be out of operation.

Mars Odyssey, an orbiting craft launched in 2001, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), sent into space four years later in 2005, paved the way for Phoenix by identifying a safe landing spot from orbit.

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).

NASA created the map by tracking small fluctuations in the orbits of three spacecraft over 16 years using the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Mars Odyssey spotted vast tracts of water ice, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw «dry ice» snowflakes falling from clouds near the pole.

The new map of Mars» gravity was generated by scientists using data from three NASA spacecraft — the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — which mapped the Red Planet from orbit.

NASA confirms that the Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter, along with the rovers Curiosity and Opportunity came through without a scratch and are returning valuable data on theOrbiter (MRO), and the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter, along with the rovers Curiosity and Opportunity came through without a scratch and are returning valuable data on theorbiter, along with the rovers Curiosity and Opportunity came through without a scratch and are returning valuable data on the comet.

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).

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).

Curiosity can either communicate directly with Earth's Deep Space Network (DSN) antenna via an X band (8 GHz) link, or it can use a UHF (300MHz - 3 GHz) transmitter to relay signals through Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which orbit a few hundred miles above Curiosity.

NASA has conducted aerobraking maneuvers the red planet with the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

NASA's next Red Planet orbiter, Mars Odyssey, eventually wrested the longevity record away from MGS.

This animation shows how NASA's Curiosity rover communicates with Earth via two of NASA's Mars orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Odyssey, and the European Space Agency's Mars Express.

Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colorado, will build the spacecraft based on designs from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and 2001 Mars Odyssey missions as well as perform mission operations.

MSSS staff are involved in a variety of research and operational projects, including the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera, the Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (IR and VIS), the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (launching in 2005), and the Phoenix Mars lander (launching in 2007).

Lava tubes and related flow structures were first recognized upon examination of Viking orbiter images, and later identified using orbiter imagery from Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Oorbiter images, and later identified using orbiter imagery from Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Oorbiter imagery from Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance OrbiterOrbiter.