Sentences with phrase «orbiter at»

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.

In February, about 500 miles above Siberia, a U.S. communications satellite smashed into a defunct Russian orbiter at 25,000 miles per hour, annihilating them both.

The lowest cost and lowest priority large missions recommended were a Venus Climate Orbiter at $ 2.4 billion and a spacecraft to orbit Saturn's ice - spewing moon Enceladus at $ 1.9 billion.

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.

He included links to images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (the most advanced Mars orbiter at the time), showing vistas that really did resemble thick stands of giant trees.

NASA's current rovers and orbiters at Mars pursue the agency's «follow the water» theme for Mars exploration.

Not exact matches

New images beamed down from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact scars from the two tungsten counter-weights and the cruise stage, which broke apart and landed about 50 miles from where Curiosity hunkered down at its landing site, later named Bradbury Landing, in Gale Crater on Aug. 5.

Planetary scientist Heather Meyer, now at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, used data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to...

LUNAR LOOK A new moon map, compiled using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, is the most detailed global look yet at the moon's light - colored plains (shaded green).

Most mysteriously, orbiters overhead have glimpsed the outlines of what seem to be belts of buried glaciers girdling the globe at high latitudes.

Incorporating this kind of data into the models has been difficult in part because geostationary data provide fewer measurements for any given vertical slice of the atmosphere than do polar orbiters, which circle Earth at lower altitudes.

The comet orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko at 7:19 a.m. Eastern and immediately shut down, bringing to an end a nearly 26 - month mission in orbit around the comet.

NASA's Cassini orbiter first spotted spectacular plumes at Enceladus's south pole in 2005, shortly after arriving at Saturn.

And even after billions of dollars» worth of adorable rovers and eagle - eyed orbiters have prodded and probed the planet, the results have been at best ambiguous and at times downright confusing.

Detection of the impact glass by researchers at Brown University, Providence, R.I., is based on data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

William Schreiner, an aerospace engineer who runs COSMIC - 2 for UCAR, said that, at least in theory, there will be plenty of room for public and private orbiters.

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.

«Sometimes they'll happen and you'll have to be somewhere else on Earth to see them,» said Noah Petro, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Most [residents] of the continental United States will be able to see the whole thing.»

After analysing the moon's wrinkled surface with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Klimczak thinks that the moon shrank by at least 2 kilometres — previous estimates pegged the contraction at only about 200 metres.

During / the midmorning of March 21, they soared into the history books when their balloon, Breitling Orbiter 3, sped at 130 miles an hour at an altitude of 36,000 feet over an invisible finish line at 9 degrees 27 minutes west longitude in Mauritania.

For about a minute, running on half a hair dryer's worth of power, the orbiter - cum - probe beamed direct measures of the planet's atmosphere, along with final probes of its gravity and magnetic field, to mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Upon arrival in October, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will train its instruments on the Red Planet, in the hopes of resolving questions about the existence of methane gas, and whether it could hint at microbial life.

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.

A cross-section of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced - color view from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The orbiter will look not only down at the planet, but also across its limb, into the sun, which will make the absorption lines associated with methane stand out sharply.

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.

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.

With astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen on board, the orbiter circled Earth 36 times before landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave desert.

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.

The Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) was built at JPL.

All five active Mars orbiters use the communication and tracking services of NASA's Deep Space Network, which is managed at JPL.

Traffic management at Mars is much less complex than in Earth orbit, where more than 1,000 active orbiters plus additional pieces of inactive hardware add to hazards.

If you have a PC and an Internet connection, you can download — for free — the Orbiter spaceflight simulator, developed by Martin Schweiger, a physicist at University College London.

Numerous safety panels at NASA have reviewed the mission, and have considered outlandish possibilities, such as the tether wrapping itself round the nose of the orbiter or oscillating out of control.

As the comet hurtles through the inner Solar System at around 100,000 km / h, the relative speed between orbiter and comet will remain equivalent to walking pace.

Meanwhile, the gutted shells of the shuttle orbiters will begin arriving at museums later this month — with the exception of Atlantis, which is to remain at Kennedy.

Discovery is headed for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, Endeavour to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, and Enterprise, the test orbiter which never flew beyond the atmosphere, will be exhibited at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York.

For starters, the orbiter beamed back incredibly detailed stereo photos of the surface, measured the ozone distribution in the planet's atmosphere, and confirmed the presence of water ice at the south pole.

«It is amazing,» says Chris Draper, who works on the heat shield for the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter — which will go closer to the sun than any other human - made object — at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK.

The team, led by Alexis Rodriguez of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, looked at snapshots taken from three Mars orbiters.

Narasimha took part in reviews at various stages of «Mangalyaan,» India's Mars Orbiter Mission, including the cryo rocket program.

While all at Kennedy Space Center cheered Discovery through her climb to space, NASA officials are holding off on the official celebrations until the orbiter is back on solid ground.

The three are Euclid, which will study dark matter and dark energy; Plato, aimed at exoplanets; and Solar Orbiter, which will give us the closest view yet of the sun.

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed new software that compares images from the high - resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with ground panoramas taken by the rovers to map features on the Martian surface.

This image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on July 8, 2013, captures Opportunity traversing south (at the end of the white arrow) to new science targets and a winter haven at «Solander Point,» another portion of the Endeavour rim.

«HiRISE gives us 0.3 - meter [one - foot] resolution on the ground, so we can combine those orbital images with ground images to identify rocks from the orbiter and the ground,» Ron Li, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, explained at a recent American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

The evidence comes from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which captured images of thin, dark streaks — quite likely soil — creeping down several slopes during Mars's spring and summer (see sequence at right).

Before - and - after images of the region taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will provide data that will allow researchers to estimate the strength and cohesiveness of surface rocks at the impact sites.

Phobos - Grunt was also carrying China's first attempt at a Mars orbiter, along with an experiment run by the United States - based Planetary Society designed to study how a long journey through deep space affects micro-organisms.