Sentences with phrase «orbiter found»

In 1980, The Pioneer Venus Orbiter found that Venus» magnetic field is both weaker and smaller (i.e., closer to the planet) than Earth's.

Launched in 1996, the orbiter found intriguing hints of running water and confirmed that the famous «Face of Mars» was a trick of the light.

In January 2015, NASA's high - resolution Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found the Beagle 2 lander, its rear cover and possible signs of a parachute on the Martian surface.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found evidence that flowing water causes suspicious dark streaks on the Red Planet

Ever since 2005, when NASA's Cassini orbiter found plumes of water vapor spilling out of cracks in the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, researchers have sought to learn more about the moon's mysterious interior as a possible abode for extraterrestrial life.

In craters near the south pole of the moon, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter found some bright areas and some very cold areas.

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The rover's instruments have found no traces of the gas, in contrast to some previous observations made by Red Planet orbiters.

For now, however, the latest findings show that olivine can play a significant role in shaping a planet's climate, says Bethany Ehlmann of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who led the Martian orbiter discovery.

But planetary scientists reviewing data from the Galileo orbiter mission have recently found something almost comfortingly familiar: anvil - shaped clouds that seem to be Jovian thunderheads.

The team found that patterns in radar maps of layers in the ice cap made with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are consistent with flowing ice (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009je003405).

Fisher and her colleagues found evidence of lunar frost by comparing temperature readings from LRO's Diviner instrument with brightness measurements from the spacecraft's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars» surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes.

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.

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present - day Mars.

Astronomers who recently discovered the so - called 10th planet have also found what may be the weirdest object in the solar system: a Pluto - size orbiter shaped like a squashed football.

Beginning in 2011, scientists using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)-- the best camera looking down on Mars — found hundreds of streaks, about 5 meters wide, that appear seasonally on steep slopes (pictured).

Hopes of finding life were squashed, but the orbiters mapped 97 per cent of the surface revealing details of canyons and volcanoes on a massive scale for a planet little more than half the Earth's diameter.

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.

Observations by Japan's Venus climate orbiter Akatsuki have revealed an equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of the planet's atmosphere, a finding that could be pivotal to unraveling a phenomenon called superrotation.

At a planetary science conference last week in Tucson, Arizona, members of the orbiter's camera team presented images that showed arcs of dust emanating from jets — a finding that could help them understand the mechanisms of outgassing.

Colin Dundas at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, and his colleagues examined pictures from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and found eight patches of ice, which had formed over millions of years.

On Thursday, Holger Sierks, the principal investigator for the Rosetta orbiter's main science camera, had hoped to find the lander in an image about 1 kilometer away from the target site.

Using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Scanlon found pillow lava formations, similar to those that form on Earth when lava erupts at the bottom of an ocean.

Find out how the Cassini orbiter and Huygens lander work and how we use the powerful suite of science instruments with this engaging 3D model.

Edgett told SPACE.com that the gully changes seen by MGS may be the first of many to be found by Mars - watching orbiters.

According to Engadget and Science Recorder, India lost contact with its Chandrayaan - 1 lunar orbiter back in 2009, eventually abandoning hope that the lost spacecraft would ever be found.

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.

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...

But the two orbiters returned a wealth of scientific data in their own right, improving researchers» understanding of the Red Planet's topography and finding evidence that large amounts of water flowed across the Red Planet's surface long ago.

-- NASA finds India's missing Chandrayaan - 1 lunar orbiter.

The orbiter has found further evidence that Mars was once wetter than it is now, with observations of surface patterns that could only have been made by flowing liquid, most likely carbon dioxide or water, in its recent geological past.

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But I found myself crying not just when we get Dean's affecting and deeply personal description of the VAB, but when we meet strangers lined up along the side of the road waiting for hours to catch sight of a launch, when we meet the men and women — one man in particular, Omar Izquerido, an orbiter integrity clerk at the VAB — who have devoted their lives to the space shuttle program, and who continue to devote themselves enthusiastically to their work even as they watch its end creeping toward them.

I have extensive experience working on the hardware found on the NASA shuttle / orbiter.