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For its inaugural presentation at the Dallas Art Fair the Jason Jacques Gallery will present a curated selection of contemporary ceramic art juxtaposed with rare black - and - white photographs from NASA's famous lunar orbiter missions in the 1960s.

The crater catalogue roughly doubles the size of that produced in 1978 by Don Wilhelms of the U.S. Geological Survey and his colleagues using photographs from NASA's Lunar Orbiter missions in the mid-1960s.

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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Its next phase will be the Europa Clipper mission, a Jupiter orbiter launching in the 2020s to study the watery depths beneath the Jovian moon's icy crust.

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.

The story begins with a 2008 agreement between NASA and ESA to share the costs of sending the Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars in a 2016 mission, followed by a European rover and a U.S. rover in 2018.

Researchers say the spacecraft fleet currently orbiting the Red Planet are aging and there are no replacements in the works, imperiling future Mars landers, rovers and even possible human missions that will depend on orbiters to talk to Earth.

Over the course of 134 missions, the orbiters have logged more than 1320 days in space.

Later in 2016 NASA picked five U.S. aerospace firms to carry out concept studies for a prospective Mars orbiter mission.

Mission teams for the relevant orbiters are notified in advance when projections indicate a collision is possible, even if the possibility will likely disappear in subsequent projections.

Gathering that data is the mission of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, a 4,800 - pound probe now in elliptical orbit around the Red Planet.

Originally an ESA - only lander mission, it was merged with NASA plans in 2009 and ended up as a two - craft mission: the first in 2016 will be an orbiter devoted to atmospheric sampling, followed by a large lander in 2018 which would have the capability to dig below the surface.

When MRO's mission is complete in November 2008, it will have sent back between 30 and 50 terabits of data — 10 times the output of any previous orbiter and twice as much information as in all the words in the Library of Congress.

India was the first nation to successfully reach the Red Planet on its first attempt when the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as Mangalyaan, entered orbit in 2014.

For Discovery's mission, NASA added tools to inspect the orbiter's heat shield in space, and this system is what first spotted the gap fillers.

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

The NASA budget announced in February mows down a scarily long list of science missions, from a Europa orbiter to a space - based gravitational - wave observatory.

Previous medium - class missions by ESA were Solar Orbiter and a dark - energy / dark - matter observatory called Euclid, selected in 2011.

Juno is only the second space mission dedicated to the King of Planets, after the Galileo orbiter arrived in 1995 and spent eight years there.

The White House had essentially proposed defunding two of the missions — the Opportunity Mars rover and the 5 - year - old Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter — in its request.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), which launched on 5 November, should also arrive at Mars in late 2014.

Kring says that even given the uncertainties in the future of manned spaceflight in the U.S., the lunar orbiter is a mission whose time has come.

Meanwhile, ESA reports that the Trace Gas Orbiter — the main scientific rationale for the ExoMars 2016 mission — is in good health, and is set to begin slowly lowering the altitude of its orbit so that it can begin looking for methane and other gases that could signal life on Mars.

MISSION TO MARS By the 2030s, NASA and the aerospace industry want to send a crew to explore Mars, seen in this simulated image based on data from the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter.

That's why advocates have pushed for a «Europa Clipper» concept that would spin around the moon in multiple flybys, rather than calling for an orbiter — a more difficult and expensive mission that would subject the spacecraft to much greater doses of radiation from Jupiter.

It includes the European Venus Explorer (EVE), which would be launched in the 2016 - 2018 time frame and would include a balloon to float in the atmosphere, a probe that would descend to the surface, and an orbiter; and the Venera - D mission by Russia, to launch in 2016, which could include a lander.

Useful for launching larger interplanetary science payloads such as Asteroid Redirect Mission, Mars Sample Return, Jupiter Europa Orbiter, Saturn / Titan Sample Return, Ice Giant Exploration, Outer Planet Sample Return, Large Telescopes and In - Space Infrastructres.

It would be the 16th mission by an orbiter which went on to become the most - flown member of NASA's shuttle fleet, but STS - 56 came after several fraught days at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

Specifically, five Saturn - related concepts are contending for the next New Frontiers mission, a program that in past years yielded the New Horizons Pluto spacecraft, the Juno Jupiter orbiter, and the asteroid - return spacecraft OSIRIS - REx.

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.

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.

In 2015, NASA announced it would begin work on early feasibility studies for an orbiter mission to either one of the ice giants.

Dr. Stern: Let me start by saying that the normal progression in planetary exploration begins with flybys and proceeds with orbiters and more complex missions.

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 Nili Fossae region is important to the ExoMars 2016 TGO mission as it is thought to be one of the potential source regions for transient methane gas in the Martian atmosphere that the other instruments on the orbiter is hoping to detect, characterize and determine its origins.

The institute is the PI institution of the STIX X-ray telescope to be flown onboard ESA's Solar Orbiter mission and is also involved in cubesat projects.

Our Group has built the magnetometer instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft due for launch in 2019 and has scientific involvement in the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission, launching in 2018.

Updates on ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission: five instruments to be delivered in March planetary.org, Fri., Jan 4, 2013

This will be followed by the first part of the ESA / Roscosmos ExoMars mission, which will put an orbiter around the planet and a lander down on the surface, to examine the atmosphere and the planet's electric fields, all in preparation for a 2018 followup mission.

All's well in cruise phase for Mars - bound spacecraft MAVEN and Mars Orbiter Mission planetary.org, Tues., Feb. 11, 2014

In anticipation of the encounter, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and ESA's Mars Express were sent into orbits timed to place them on the opposite of the planet from the incoming debris of the comet's tail.

Scheduled to arrive at the planet Mars this October, this first part of the ExoMars program, consisting of an orbiter and lander, will search for gases in the Martian atmosphere that could indicate signatures of active biological or geological processes, while also testing key entry, descent and landing technologies to support future ESA missions to Mars.

The ESA issued a «call for missions» around these aims in 2007 and three medium - class missions were subsequently considered, of which the Solar Orbiter and Euclid missions are the first to be selected.

Officials working on India's Mars orbiter project are finalizing plans for a six - month science campaign after the spacecraft arrived in orbit last week, an achievement that has already satisfied the mission's primary objectives, the head of India's space agency said Monday.

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) orbiter leaves for the red planet in November of 2013.