Sentences with phrase «reconnaissance orbiter mission»

MSSS is currently operating two cameras onboard NASA's 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission (MRO), the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) and the Context Camera (CTX).

An odd offset of the ice from the moon's current north and south poles was a tell - tale indicator to Siegler and prompted him to assemble a team of experts to take a closer look at the data from NASA's Lunar Prospector and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

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

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

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Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has been investigating the lunar surface since 2009.

The House proposal would also allow NASA to keep all its aging planetary explorers; the White House «had essentially proposed defunding two of the missions — the Opportunity Mars rover and the 5 - year - old Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.»

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) and India's Mars Orbiter Mission joined the 2003 Mars Express from ESA (the European Space Agency) and two from NASA: the 2001 Mars Odyssey and the 2006 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

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.

The announcement followed a scientific review of the missions; it was feared that two of them — the Mars rover Opportunity and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter — would be shut down.

NASA missions planned for launch a year from now — the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)-- should provide a clearer picture, and India's Chandrayaan - 1 mission will carry a less sensitive radar system.

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.

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.

Among now operating planetary missions, the agency expects to zero out the Mars Opportunity rover, the Mars Odyssey orbiter, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Oorbiter, and the Lunar Reconnaissance OrbiterOrbiter.

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

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.

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.

Project Description: Science Mission: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding envirMission: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding envirmission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding environment.

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.

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 Jmission and one for the 2011 Juno Mission to JMission to Jupiter.

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

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

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.

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.

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.