Sentences with phrase «atmospheric probe»

The balloons carry atmospheric probes to heights of 30 to 35 kilometers.

As of 1980 AND 2015, how many worlds had either been soft - landed on or had successful atmospheric probes?

«As it makes these five dips into Saturn, followed by its final plunge, Cassini will become the first Saturn atmospheric probe,» Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at JPL, said in a press release.

But now, with its fuel tanks almost empty from all its wandering, Cassini has fallen victim to its own success; to avoid the spacecraft spinning out of control — striking and potentially contaminating Enceladus or Titan with any lingering Earth - born microbes — mission planners are deliberately crashing Cassini into Saturn, turning it into a makeshift atmospheric probe.

For example, if it were to do a flyby mission, one perhaps including an atmospheric probe and then also doing additional exploration in the Kuiper Belt, it might be pretty quick.

«So, we will have repurposed Cassini into an atmospheric probe, and we will have it broadcasting data back down to the very last minute.»