Sentences with phrase «by orbiters»

The company has already engineered much of the software it needs to stitch the massive number of images collected by its orbiters into a single texture applied to a topographic model of Earth.

It flies an elongated orbit, sometimes farther from Mars than NASA's other orbiters and sometimes closer to Mars, so it crosses altitudes occupied by those orbiters.

It would be the 16th mission by an orbiter which went on to become the most - flown member of NASA's shuttle fleet, but STS - 56 came after several fraught days at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

Not exact matches

To get there, the China National Space Administration has already launched two unmanned orbiters and plans to build a manned space station by 2020.

The rover's instruments have found no traces of the gas, in contrast to some previous observations made by Red Planet orbiters.

The new work by Okubo and his USGS colleagues zoomed out for a wider view of the canyons, yet used incredibly detailed images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera to look for signs of ancient shallow pools.

In January this year, it was announced that the lander had been identified in images taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2013; these showed the lander as a glinting object, just a few pixels wide, about 5 km from the intended touchdown site.

Panoramic lunar view taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera of the north rim of Cabeus crater.

Researchers used over a decade of imaging data taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to investigate the composition of the Red Planet's frequent...

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.

The comet lander, lost since its tumultuous touch down on the comet on November 12, 2014, turned up in images taken by the Rosetta orbiter on September 2.

But the agency says this year's budget shortfall will force it to delay the launch of the program's second orbiter by 14 to 18 months, beyond the expected lifetime of the first satellite.

The comet lander, lost since its tumultuous touchdown on the comet on November 12, 2014, turned up in images taken by the Rosetta orbiter on September 2.

Glaze's probe would also have imaged mysterious highlands, or tessera, mapped in detail by radar on NASA's Magellan orbiter in the 1990s.

NASA would also like to see orbiters that can return to Earth with Martian samples sent up by capsule from a planned rover.

Detection of the impact glass by researchers at Brown University, Providence, R.I., is based on data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Observations made by NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter in the late 1990s identified hydrogen - rich areas near the moon's poles but could not determine whether that hydrogen was bound up in water or was present in some other form.

This remarkable shot looks like it could've been taken by an approaching Shuttle Orbiter, but in fact was obtained using an 11 - inch telescope sitting right here on terra firma!

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.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.

In this case, he was looking at infrared images taken during the Martian nighttime by the THEMIS instrument, which flies aboard the Mars Odyssey orbiter.

Far side of the moon: this is a composite image of the lunar farside taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009, note the absence of dark areas.

After analysing the moon's wrinkled surface with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Klimczak thinks that the moon shrank by at least 2 kilometres — previous estimates pegged the contraction at only about 200 metres.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), slated to launch this fall, will pave the way by analyzing the composition of the soil, the temperature, and unexplored regions of the moon.

By the beginning of the 21st century, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter boasted a camera capable of imaging objects only a few meters across, revealing the diversity of Martian gullies.

The space shuttle program has just three launches before the orbiters are retired later this year or early in 2011, and Obama has proposed scrapping the shuttle program's successor, known as Constellation, which was first sketched out by President George W. Bush in 2004.

The moon may carry material produced by life from Earth dating back to when plants first filled the planet's air with oxygen, according to study of data from a Japanese lunar orbiter.

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.

The spending plan would direct NASA to launch the orbiter by 2022 and the lander by 2024.

First witnessed in Jupiter's clouds as rare flashes of scattered light by Voyager 1 in its 1979 flyby and observed decades later by the Galileo orbiter, Jupiter's lightning is thought to be an indirect tracer of the planet's water content.

By measuring the timing for returned signals, it can calculate the distance between the moon's surface and the orbiter and hence, shape of the surface.

Here, we've collected a handful of those blemishes, captured by NASA's Landsat orbiters, to give you a sense of what might catch an extraterrestrial visitor's eye.

Other factions within planetary - science circles would prefer to send another mission to Titan — maybe even an airborne drone, a sailboat or a submarine — or to reach for farther frontiers by sending orbiters to Uranus and Neptune, the last two planets that remain scarcely explored.

The story begins with a 2008 agreement between NASA and ESA to share the costs of sending the Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars in a 2016 mission, followed by a European rover and a U.S. rover in 2018.

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.

In February NASA's newest orbiter, 2001 Mars Odyssey, settled the questions by revealing that large amounts of frozen water are locked up at Mars's south pole.

To search for the tide's signature, the scientists turned to data taken by LRO's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA, which is mapping the height of features on the moon's surface.

The subtle spectral signature of carbonates was identified by the high - resolution CRISM spectrometer on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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.

They are overlaid on a visible - light image of Ganymede taken by NASA's Galileo orbiter.

If all goes well, earthbound scientists will have an orbiter around the inside planet by July 2009.

NASA is following up with the first comprehensive, up - close map of the moon, being created by the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

During the last several years, the degree of the lunar deformation caused by the tidal forces has been determined by several orbiters, for example, Kaguya from Japan, Chang «e-1 from China, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) from the USA.

The above 2 - shot mosaic of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko was taken by ESA's Rosetta orbiter at an effective altitude of just 19.9 kilometers.

Briony Horgan and Jim Bell of Arizona State University in Tempe analysed near - infrared spectra of the regions, gathered by the Mars Express orbiter.

If you have a PC and an Internet connection, you can download — for free — the Orbiter spaceflight simulator, developed by Martin Schweiger, a physicist at University College London.

Originally an ESA - only lander mission, it was merged with NASA plans in 2009 and ended up as a two - craft mission: the first in 2016 will be an orbiter devoted to atmospheric sampling, followed by a large lander in 2018 which would have the capability to dig below the surface.

«Our well - calibrated UV images will act as a pathfinder for mapping by NASA's 2008 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,» says Garvin.

What has reinvigorated lunar science most of all are the discoveries of water made last year by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater...