Sentences with phrase «orbiter spacecraft»

The work of the 12 shortlisted artists ranges from the almost humble (Saski Groneberg's Büropflanz, a series of black and white still lifes of plants that decorate otherwise glumly functional offices) to the cosmic (Thomas Ruff's series, ma.r.s, which comprises digitally compressed and colourised riffs on images transmitted from Mars by Nasa's Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft).

Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all - new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Working with data returned by NASA's Cassini Orbiter spacecraft, Benson has created a series of works showing Saturn and its extraordinary ring system.

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.

(Copyright 1998 by Calvin J. Hamilton) Martian Atmosphere This oblique image taken by the Viking orbiter spacecraft shows a thin band of the Martian atmosphere.

This oblique image taken by the Viking orbiter spacecraft shows a thin band of the Martian atmosphere.

The images used in the discovery come from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

Those that failed to progress included a proposal to send a spacecraft diving, as Cassini did, into Saturn's atmosphere to study its composition and history, as well as a notional orbiter for Titan and a second plume - diving spacecraft for Enceladus independent of ELSAH.

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.

That includes $ 595 million to send an orbiter and lander to Jupiter's moon Europa; Trump's budget had sought $ 425 million to send a spacecraft flying by the moon.

NeMO's most pressing duty, in many eyes, is to take the baton from veteran NASA spacecraft — the 2001 Mars Odyssey as well as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been on duty since March 2006 — that are at risk of expiring of old age.

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.

The global maps were created from data obtained by an instrument called the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), which bounces an infrared laser beam off the surface and calculates the distance from the spacecraft by measuring the time it takes to detect the reflected pulse.

Transmitting readings from all those spacecraft would be difficult with radio signals, so the Telecommunications Orbiter will send information home via beams of laser light.

JAPAN Since its first launch in 1970, the country has lofted numerous Earth - observation satellites, a spacecraft powered by a solar sail, and SELENE, a lunar orbiter that mapped the moon's surface.

Last year's addition of two new spacecraft orbiting Mars brought the census of active Mars orbiters to five, the most ever.

Dozens of unmanned spacecraft, including orbiters, landers, and rovers, have been launched toward Mars since the 1960s.

The lowest cost and lowest priority large missions recommended were a Venus Climate Orbiter at $ 2.4 billion and a spacecraft to orbit Saturn's ice - spewing moon Enceladus at $ 1.9 billion.

The overall plan, currently known as the Europa Jupiter System Mission, or EJSM, includes a NASA spacecraft dubbed the Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO), which would settle into orbit around Europa after conducting a broader tour of the Jovian environs.

New images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) reveal that the kiddie - pool - sized spacecraft — meant to softly touch down and then send signals home on October 19 — was instead destroyed when it crashed into the surface.

The currently available spacecraft — Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — are each roughly a decade old and may soon be out of operation.

The Beagle 2 lander, which has not yet been attached to the spacecraft, is a big worry because if it fails to separate from the orbiter as the package approaches Mars, both will be lost.

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.

At the moment, Kaiser says, the trailing STEREO orbiter sees areas of the sun that will be visible from Earth in about three days, but in two years» time the twin spacecraft will be separated by 180 degrees, allowing simultaneous observation of the entire sun for the first time.

Similar structures had not been seen on Arabia Terra until the team analysed high resolution imagery from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft.

In 2005 the Cassini orbiter dropped a small lander, Huygens, into Titan's atmosphere, where the tiny spacecraft deployed parachutes and descended to the surface.

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.

MSSS has produced visible and ultraviolet cameras for the Mars Global Surveyor (1996), Mars Climate Orbiter (1998), Mars Polar Lander (1999), Mars Odyssey (2001), Cosmos 1 (2005), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005), Mars Scout Phoenix (2007), Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009), a classified U.S. spacecraft, and the Mars Science Laboratory rover (2011).

MSSS is also currently operating two cameras onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) and the Context Camera (CTX) and is monitoring the health of Junocam, a MSSS - built camera on its way to Jupiter aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Researchers have known of gullies on the Mars since 2000, when the MGS spacecraft's Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)- built by Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California - first observed the eye - catching landforms.

To do a mission like this, the general view has been that the right middle ground is a spacecraft considerably smaller than Cassini but still more capable than a typical Mars orbiter.

NASA created the map by tracking small fluctuations in the orbits of three spacecraft over 16 years using the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Parteli and colleague Hans Hermann, of Brazil's Federal University of Ceará, used computer simulations to reproduce actual Martian dunes observed by the Mars Orbiter Camera aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

The new map of Mars» gravity was generated by scientists using data from three NASA spacecraft — the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — which mapped the Red Planet from orbit.

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.

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.

If that's too ambitious, she suggests either an orbiter or slow flyby probe, so long as the spacecraft goes slow enough not to smush potential microorganisms like bugs on a car windshield.

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

MSSS, a small, privately - owned company of ~ 60 employees located in San Diego, CA provides products and services in three main areas: Cameras for spacecraft; Spacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars Lanspacecraft; Spacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars LanSpacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars Lander (PHX).

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

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a Russian - launched, European - built spacecraft that arrived at Mars in October, is starting to dip into the upper reaches of the red planet's atmosphere in a year - long «aerobraking» campaign place the observatory in the right position to hunt for methane, an indicator of potential biological activity.

Akatsuki is at Venus, several rovers and orbiters are at Mars, the Juno spacecraft just reached Jupiter, Cassini is still orbiting Saturn, Dawn is still at Ceres, and Rosetta continues to study the comet 67P.

Happy Face The story of the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) onboard the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft began with a proposal to NASA in 1985.

Our research approach includes spacecraft observations (from missions such as Cluster, THEMIS, MMS, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter), large scale kinetic simulations, and fundamental plasma theory to understand plasma phenomena throughout the universe.

The first, known as Solar Orbiter, will see a spacecraft operating closer to the Sun than any previous mission with a particular focus on examining the solar wind.

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.

NASA contributed two Electra radio communications systems to the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (European Space Agency) and assisted with the navigation, tracking and data return of the spacecraft.

«We're an atmospheric monitoring mission, whereas all the orbiters that come before us have really been surface - mapping, surface - observation - type missions,» Guy Beutelschies, MAVEN project manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, which built the spacecraft, told reporters Friday (Nov. 15).