Sentences with phrase «viking spacecraft»

«The Europa Lander Science Definition Team Report presents the integrated results of an intensive science and engineering team effort to develop and optimize a mission concept that would follow the Europa Multiple Flyby Mission and conduct the first in situ search for evidence of life on another world since the Viking spacecraft on Mars in the 1970s.

Based upon the low resolution Viking images (which was the best the Viking spacecraft could do), several people claimed that the «Face» was artificial and not a natural geological structure.

Construction of the Viking spacecraft was done primarily by the private company Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin).

In 1976, the Viking spacecraft gave us the first clear picture of the Martian surface — and sparked hopes that the barren, toxic planet once hosted life.

Most scientists who study meteorites believe that this sample came from Mars because the gases trapped in it have the exact same composition as the Mars atmosphere — a very distinctive composition that was determined by the Viking spacecraft in 1976.

That was the bleak picture of Mars painted by the Viking spacecraft, which failed to find signs of life there in the late 1970s.

The twin Viking spacecraft landed on Mars in 1976.

The Viking spacecraft in the 1970s sent back some snapshots of what might as well have been dusty fields somewhere in Arizona.

«And this mission would be NASA's first mission that is directly tasked with searching for signs of life on another world since the Viking Spacecraft were given that task back in the 1970s on the surface of Mars.»

Not exact matches

In his reading, the Viking gas chromatograph scooped up soil, heated it, and in so doing activated the perchlorate, which then destroyed the very organics the spacecraft was searching for.

«The biggest problem we have with sterilizing spacecraft is that we didn't do it again after Viking,» he says.

In June 1976, television cameras on the Viking 1 spacecraft captured Mars only half - illuminated, an unprecedented sight.

Things were not looking so good for alien life in 1976, after the Viking I spacecraft landed on Mars, stretched out its robotic arm, and gathered up a fist - size pile of red dirt for chemical testing.

These systems have been used to power the exploration of the solar system and beyond, from the Viking missions on Mars, to the Voyager spacecraft entering interplanetary space, and most recently powering the Curiosity Mars Rover and the New Horizons spacecraft sailing past Pluto.

If it means sending microbes from Earth and having them persist and maybe grow, then, unfortunately, it's not unlikely that we've done that as well — possibly on Mars with the Phoenix spacecraft and almost certainly inside the Curiosity rover, which carries a heat source and was not fully baked the way Viking had been.

According to Rummel, this is the first time since the Viking missions to Mars in 1975 that a full - system sterilization — meaning every component of the spacecraft — is planned for a planetary lander.

The spacecraft ran out of attitude control gas in 1972, after nearly a year in orbit, but its pictures provided NASA with enough data to send the Viking 1 and 2 spacecraft out to Mars four years later.

One of MGS» first targets was the «Face on Mars,» an infamous feature snapped by the orbiting Viking 1 spacecraft on July 25, 1976.

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

Four years later, on October 10, 1976, the Viking 2 spacecraft took this picture of the Martian north polar cap.

(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.

MGS was the first NASA spacecraft to reach Mars in almost 20 years, since the Viking missions arrived in 1976.

Inside the Kennedy's Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility - 2 on Jan. 7, 1975, technicians ready the Viking Lander 1's aeroshell cover.

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

Both Viking landers had their seismometers on top of the spacecraft, where they produced noisy data.