Sentences with phrase «orbiter in»

A high - definition image of the Earth rising above the Moon's south pole, taken from Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter in 2007.

The budget for NASA's Mars Exploration Program was slashed in February 2012, and as a result the only confirmed future launch to Mars is the MAVEN orbiter in 2013.

With a rover on the ground and an orbiter in the sky both beaming information and observations back to Earth, scientists could have answers.

Team members mate the Viking 1 Lander (top) and orbiter in Kennedy Space Center's Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility on Dec. 11, 1974.

A follow - up photo of the region acquired by the NASA orbiter in March has strengthened the case.

Using imagery taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2007, amateur astronomers located an object that could be a Russian lander that went dark after a few seconds on Mars in 1971.

And it was criticised for sitting on stunning images taken by the Mars Express orbiter in 2004.

This would put the orbiter in a position to drop the Philae lander in a few hours.

Eratosthenes, a 37 - mile - wide crater blasted into a plain of frozen lava, is seen here from the Apollo 17 orbiter in 1972.

NASA scientist Noah Petro sheds some light on the April 15, 2014, lunar eclipse that will leave the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in darkness for several hours.

Far side of the moon: this is a composite image of the lunar farside taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009, note the absence of dark areas.

Observations made by NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter in the late 1990s identified hydrogen - rich areas near the moon's poles but could not determine whether that hydrogen was bound up in water or was present in some other form.

Glaze's probe would also have imaged mysterious highlands, or tessera, mapped in detail by radar on NASA's Magellan orbiter in the 1990s.

In January this year, it was announced that the lander had been identified in images taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2013; these showed the lander as a glinting object, just a few pixels wide, about 5 km from the intended touchdown site.

The Red Planet now has seven robots studying it, following the arrival of two new orbiters in September: NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) and MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission), the Indian space agency's first Mars spacecraft.

When Iridium Communications begins launching replacement orbiters in 2015, it will do much more than upgrade its satphone services.

There were polar orbiters in the 1960's.

Not exact matches

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

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.

In comparison, the main space shuttle orbiter has a maximum landing weight of 230,000 pounds.

In contrast, the space shuttle orbiter has a maximum landing weight of 230,000 pounds.

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

A few orbiters have visited Venus in the past decade, including the European Space Agency's Venus Express from 2006 to 2014, and the Japanese space agency's Akatsuki, in orbit since December 2015.

Practically every new rover, lander or orbiter sent to Mars in recent years turns up more evidence of water, both past and present.

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.

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.

The comet lander, lost since its tumultuous touch down on the comet on November 12, 2014, turned up in images taken by the Rosetta orbiter on September 2.

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

The comet lander, lost since its tumultuous touchdown on the comet on November 12, 2014, turned up in images taken by the Rosetta orbiter on September 2.

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

Once he had the signal from the lab glass, he used an algorithm designed to pick out similar signals in data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which flies aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

If all goes as planned, joint European - U.S. projects will yield an orbiter ready for launch in 2016 and two rovers in 2018.

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.

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).

This remarkable shot looks like it could've been taken by an approaching Shuttle Orbiter, but in fact was obtained using an 11 - inch telescope sitting right here on terra firma!

The scientists relied on data from the pair of GRACE satellites — NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment orbiters launched in 2002 — that measure subtle changes in Earth's gravitational field, which are often the result of shifting water, whether on the surface or deep beneath it.

According to a year's worth of data sent back from the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter launched in November 2005, the second planet from the sun is nothing like Earth — from its torrid surface to the upper reaches of its acid - laced atmosphere.

Stone stepped down from JPL in 2001, but his touch remains in the current cadence of Mars exploration, alternating between big - budget missions like Curiosity and smaller ones like the MAVEN orbiter, which studies the Martian atmosphere.

The Viking orbiters saw dust devils in the mid-1970s, but researchers weren't sure how much dust they threw into the atmosphere.

In addition to being a spectacle for North America residents, Petro said NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team would be paying particular attention to this eclipse.

After an initial reconnection between the orbiter and lander on 13 June, there were six more communications between Philae and Rosetta, of varying durations, in the subsequent 10 days.

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.

The country's first lunar forays — orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010 — were more engineering demonstrations than scientific missions, but that changed with the first lander, Chang «e-3.

Data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan - 1 lunar orbiter shows a diverse mineralogy in the subsurface of the giant South Pole Aitken basin.

«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.»

While space agencies are planning to send more orbiters to study Jupiter and its moons in the next decade, probes remain impractical because the gas planet has no solid surface to land on.

Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).

The space shuttle program has just three launches before the orbiters are retired later this year or early in 2011, and Obama has proposed scrapping the shuttle program's successor, known as Constellation, which was first sketched out by President George W. Bush in 2004.

Using the Shallow Radar instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Holt was able to peek beneath the ice's surface for clues; in particular, the radar could pick out differences in electrical reflectivity between overlying layers, showing how the ice built up over time.