Sentences with phrase «orbiter captured»

In 2014, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these images of the lost Beagle 2 lander on the surface of the Red Planet.

3D scans from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of thick sheets of underground ice below the Red Planet's surface.

Meanwhile, the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter captured complementary images from orbit.

Not exact matches

Here, we've collected a handful of those blemishes, captured by NASA's Landsat orbiters, to give you a sense of what might catch an extraterrestrial visitor's eye.

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.

Test satellites launched in April and November demonstrated that the company's engineers can accurately position the orbiters and capture a continuous stream of images with a resolution of three to five meters — fine enough to distinguish individual trees in a rainforest, but not sharp enough to identify a person tending his garden.

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).

Captured by ESA's Venus Express orbiter, this radiation indicates that the highlands of the planet's southern hemisphere resemble granite, the same material that makes up terrestrial continents.

Its Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), the first prong of a multipart ExoMars mission, appears to have been captured into its planned orbit around Mars and is working normally.

The orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera captured the scene on June 27, 2013, with the orbiter rolled for an eastward - looking angle rather than straight downward.

CRATER CRAZE Images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 2009 to 2015 revealed 222 new impact craters (in yellow) on the moon.

This image, captured by the Cassini orbiter on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) and beamed to Earth on Dec. 26.

This picture was captured on 25 February, 2011 by NASA's Cassini Orbiter.

Color - coded topographical map of Mars showing the swathe of landscape captured by ESA's Mars Express orbiter

Color - coded topographical map of Mars showing the swathe of landscape captured by ESA's Mars Express orbiter (Credit: ESA)

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter or MRO, currently flying around Mars, captured images which reveal something strange.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment or HiRISE equipment to detect and capture the dark spot.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released new imagery captured by its long - serving Mars Express orbiter.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will capture data during Curiosity's entry, descent and landing for later playback to Earth.

The Mars Camera, officially known as CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System), aboard the European Space Agency «s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) captured its first high resolution images of...

Capturing an image of the Earth and moon with LRO's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) instrument is a complicated task.

One of the largest mosaic photographs in the world is the Northern Polar Mosaic created by NASA using images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter; the total resolution of the final mosaic image is an enormous 680 gigapixels.