Sentences with phrase «orbiter makes»

For some reason, even though it's really no more spinny than Dumbo or The Magic Carpets of Alladin, the Astro Orbiter makes me feel so dizzy and ill that I'm kind of out of commission for a bit.

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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.

But if you or your little one can handle going» round and» round, then the added bonus of Astro Orbiter «s height makes it a bit more exciting.

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.

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).

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.

«You would think that making the case for a new orbiter would be easy,» Dreier says, «but so far NASA has been unable or unwilling to commit to starting one for launch in the early 2020s.»

The launch of the lunar orbiter hardly made news in the United States.

What has reinvigorated lunar science most of all are the discoveries of water made last year by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater...

«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 NASA probe would also make close flybys of another Jovian moon, Io, while the ESA orbiter, dubbed Laplace (named for the French mathematician and astronomer), would investigate Callisto as well as Ganymede.

After nearly four years in orbit and discovering water ice, organic compounds and the planet's iron core, NASA's Messenger orbiter will make one last thruster boost on 21 January.

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.

The orbiter is expected to take about 5 days to reach lunar orbit, less than half the time it took a predecessor, Chang «e-1, to make a similar trip 3 years ago.

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.

«This is a major step beyond what we understood about this moon before, and it demonstrates the kind of deep - dive discoveries we can make with long - lived orbiter missions to other planets,» said co-author Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado, and visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

Big heavy missions are slower, but using NASA's Space Launch System rocket will make it faster and the arrival times will be sometime in the 2030s or after for an orbiter.

After several hours of silence while the Rosetta orbiter was circling Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko and out of signal reach of its lander, named Philae, the two finally made contact.

With the giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn the first flybys were made with Pioneer and Voyager in the 1970s and»80s, and both planets had been followed up with very productive orbiter missions like Galileo and Cassini.

The Cassini orbiter, meanwhile, kept circling Saturn, making a number of important discoveries in its 13 - plus years at the ringed planet.

The ExoMars orbiter is preparing to make its first scientific observations at Mars during two orbits of the planet starting next week.

This global map of the gravity or Mars is the best one yet made and was created from 16 years» worth of data from three NASA orbiters around the Red Planet.

Mars has a relatively well studied climate, going back to measurements made by Viking, and continued with the current series of orbiters, such as the Mars Global Surveyor.

NASA»S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission.

ESA's Rosetta orbiter is preparing to make a daring 6 km (3.7 mile) pass of one of Comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko's most active regions — an area on the comet's larger lobe designated as Imhotep.

According to observations made by NASA and ESA orbiters, the extremely close flyby of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring was accompanied by a meteor shower larger than any seen on Earth.

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.

There is no 3 - D CGI involved in this amazing Saturn fly - by video... it's made from thousands of hi - res photographs taken by the Cassini orbiter.

Follow along on a tour of the landing scene of NASA's Curiosity rover in this video made up of images from two NASA orbiters.

Mars has a relatively well studied climate, going back to measurements made by Viking, and continued with the current series of orbiters, such as the Mars Global Surveyor.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is making its first scientific observations on Mars.

Now, in 2011, it is probably appropriate to use 1980 as the cut - off, to ensure maximum satellite era coverage and comparisons can be made to polar orbiters more readily.