Sentences with phrase «reconnaissance orbiter»

One of the largest mosaic photographs in the world is the Northern Polar Mosaic created by NASA using images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter; the total resolution of the final mosaic image is an enormous 680 gigapixels.

Research derived from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has established that the Mars ice age is in the process of ending due to a natural global warming for that planet.

The panel will share data from these results, as well as from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), to present a picture of ISON's trip around the sun, which appears to have led to its demise.

High resolution images of jettisoned lander hardware acquired by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Global Surveyor at various landing sites on Mars have been analysed to measure winds in the Martian atmosphere.

Capturing an image of the Earth and moon with LRO's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) instrument is a complicated task.

We also marveled at many remarkable achievements, like the visit of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's discovery of proof of liquid water on Mars.

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).

A participant with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera investigation, he assesses the significance and value of Exploration and it's visual representation within a broad historical context.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this shot of a trough running down the center of a valley in the Tartarus Colles region of Mars.

Lava tubes and related flow structures were first recognized upon examination of Viking orbiter images, and later identified using orbiter imagery from Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

[10][11][12] Following the launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, many lunar lava tubes have been imaged.

Mosaic of photos taken of the far side of the moon by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, orbiting at an altitude of just 30 miles (50 km).

The image is from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with an enhanced - color central swath between grayscale on each side.

The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Dundas's team first spotted some of the new ice deposits a few years ago in images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

MSSS staff are involved in a variety of research and operational projects, including the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera, the Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (IR and VIS), the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (launching in 2005), and the Phoenix Mars lander (launching in 2007).

In 2014, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these images of the lost Beagle 2 lander on the surface of the Red Planet.

In 2015, NASA announced, based on examinations by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, that briny water may even flow today.

MAVEN and other agency assets, such as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are under no threat from the cloud, which exists at an altitude of between 93 miles (150 km) to 190 miles (300 km) above the Martian surface.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) is currently orbiting Mars and acquring grayscale (black & white) images at 6 meters per pixel scale over a swath 30 kilometers wide.

In 2004, MSSS was selected to provide three camera systems (four total cameras) for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover and three cameras for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission.

Images taken by NASA's orbiting spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal what appears to be the graveyard of the missing European Mars lander.

Views from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released Friday show the crash site where Europe's experimental Schiaparelli lander fell to the red planet's surface from a height of several miles, leaving a distinct dark patch on the Martian landscape.

Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colorado, will build the spacecraft based on designs from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and 2001 Mars Odyssey missions as well as perform mission operations.

The speakers include Beagle 2 Manager Mark Sims; U.K. Space Agency Chief Executive David Parker; Alvaro Giménez Cañete, ESA's director of science and robotic exploration; and John Bridges, a science team member on NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) missions.

JPL, a division of Caltech, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Officials recently announced that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shall fly atop the next - generation rocket in 2005, using the Atlas 5 - 401 configuration with a four - meter fairing and no solid boosters.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will capture data during Curiosity's entry, descent and landing for later playback to Earth.

NASA's next Mars - circling craft, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has also enjoyed a long and successful mission.

In addition, MSSS cameras on Mars Global Surveyor (the Mars Orbiter Camera, MOC) and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (the Context Camera, CTX) acquired images of two small bodies in our Solar System: the martian satellites Phobos and Deimos.

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

IMAGE: A false color image from the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows amazing diversity of rocks exhumed from the Martian subsurface a meteor impact in the Nili Fossae... view more

The movie begins with a global image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, then switches to views from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

During the past five years, researchers used OMEGA and NASA's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer, or CRISM, instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to identify clay minerals at thousands of locations on Mars.

Climate, weather, and north polar observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Color Imager M. C. Malin, W. M. Calvin, B. A. Cantor, R. T. Clancy, R. M. Haberle, P. B. James, P. C. Thomas, M. J. Wolff, J. F. Bell III, and S. W. Lee Icarus 194, 501 — 512, doi: 10.1016 / j.icarus.2007.10.016, April 2008.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment or HiRISE equipment to detect and capture the dark spot.

Meanwhile, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will record the UHF data and play it back to Earth at a later time.

This animation shows how NASA's Curiosity rover communicates with Earth via two of NASA's Mars orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Odyssey, and the European Space Agency's Mars Express.

This animation shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying over NASA's Curiosity (shown in pink) as the rover lands on the Red Planet.

Images used are publicly available from the NASA MESSENGER and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

In the first episode of a new JPL video series, we celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Opportunity rover, show you a recent panoramic view from the Curiosity rover, look at ice deposits spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and check out the latest test on the InSight lander, heading to the Red Planet in May 2018.

For more information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mro and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived to circle the Red Planet in March 2006, taking high - resolution photos of many areas on the world's surface.

Feb 14, 2011 Happy Valentine's Day from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) Team more»

MSSS also built the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) for the Phoenix Mars Scout lander and the suite of high resolution cameras aboard the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Lost since 2003, the UK - led Beagle - 2 Mars lander has finally been discovered on the Martian surface by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

MSSS also built the suite of high resolution cameras aboard the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and has delivered four science cameras for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission and one for the 2011 Juno Mission to Jupiter.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter or MRO, currently flying around Mars, captured images which reveal something strange.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), built by MSSS and operated by principal investigator Mark Robinson at Arizona State University, continues to return 0.5 meter per pixel high - resolution images and 100 meter per pixel multi-spectral images after being launched in June 2009.

NASA has conducted aerobraking maneuvers the red planet with the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.