Sentences with phrase «by space probes»

These swing - by - manoeuvres have been performed numerous times by space probes in our solar system.

Some of this debris was thought to lurk within a few light - years of the sun and generate x-rays that have been detected by space probes and ground - based observations.

Deimos does not have anything like them, nor do any of the half - dozen regular asteroids imaged by space probes so far.

Not exact matches

Although Saturn was visited by three spacecraft in the 1970s and 1980s, my fellow scientists and I couldn't have imagined what the Cassini space probe would discover during its sojourn at the ringed planet when it launched 20 years ago.

A rare view of the far side of the moon, taken by the China National Space Administration's lunar probe.

NASA's Insight lander was built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Denver and delivered to Vandenberg Airfare base in California on February 28, and will probe the deep interior of the Red Planet to gain a better understanding of the processes that have shaped rocky planets such as Mars and Earth.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

These goals are similar to those of MAVEN and MOM, two Mars probes launched last year by NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO, but the UAE isn't just replicating those missions.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the international Cassini probe, and found that the interactions between Titan's atmosphere, and the solar magnetic field and radiation, create a wind of hydrocarbons and nitriles being blown away from its polar regions into space.

By going into space like Gravity Probe B, STEP could dramatically improve the precision of equivalence principle measurements.

Comet researchers got a bonus in 2001 when NASA's Deep Space 1 probe zipped by comet Borrelly.

No space probe or telescope built by humans has ever escaped the Milky Way to turn back and take a portrait; because we are embedded in our galaxy's disk, we can only see it as a bright band of stars across the sky.

There, unlike on Earth, the lack of plate tectonics and erosion help preserve surface features, which are probed by space craft.

Measurements of the afterglow from the Big Bang by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission yield predictions for the Hubble constant that are 5 percent and 9 percent smaller, respectively.

The «gravitational lens» created by the bending of light through warped space - time has become a vital tool in probing the cosmos.

It would focus on the composition and thickness of the ocean, already reckoned to be briny and rich in magnesium salts following previous observations of seeps to the surface by other space probes flying nearby.

Huygens, a disk - shaped probe built by the European Space Agency (and named after Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch astronomer who discovered Titan), should rectify the situation.

For the next year the Gravity Probe B team, led by Francis Everitt of Stanford, will monitor the spheres to see if the warp or drag of space tilts their spin axes out of alignment.

There, the microscopically small grains of rock from the core are catapulted along with ice particles into space, where they were measured by the instruments on the Cassini space probe,» explained the Heidelberg planetary scientist.

Each probe will cost about $ 50 million to develop, cheap by space standards.

Data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), launched in 2001, bolstered a key prediction of inflation, that the universe's structure was seeded by quantum fluctuations in space - time.

The entire assembly will be held by the space station's robotic arm to expose the RGA probe to the outside vacuum of space near the space station.

The next generation of space probes is being powered by highly efficient electric plasma rockets.

By contrast, the plan for visiting Europa called for a standard - issue space probe.

Such planets could be the targets for an eventual launch of miniature space probes by the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative.

Such planets could be the targets for an eventual launch of miniature space probes by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative.

«By measuring the extended upper atmosphere of the planet, MAVEN directly probes how these atoms escape to space.

Chafer was approached last year by astronomers Yvan Dutil and Stéphane Dumas of the Defence Research Establishment Valcartier in Canada with the idea of broadcasting a scientific message before launching the space probe.

The galaxy was detected as part of the Frontier Fields program, an ambitious three - year effort, begun in 2013, that teams Hubble with NASA's other Great Observatories — the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory — to probe the early universe by studying large galaxy clusters.

Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.

The European Space Agency reflects on the discoveries made by the NASA / ESA / ISA Cassini - Huygens probe.

The last signals from Cassini space probe before it burns up in Saturn's atmosphere will tracked by the Canberra Deep Space Communication Comspace probe before it burns up in Saturn's atmosphere will tracked by the Canberra Deep Space Communication ComSpace Communication Complex.

The India Space Research Organisation, ISRO, is preparing for the launch of its Mars Orbiter Mission by November 2013, which will see the Mangalyaan Mars probe lift off from ISRO's launch site at Sriharikota, on the east coast of the India mainland.

Eight facilities worldwide participated, observing before, during and after the Huygens probe mission, led by the European Space Agency.

Our latest view of the Universe and its history obtained by the ESA Planck space probe.

The vast volume of space probed by such a galaxy survey will provide a measure of the relationship between the amount of mass and the amount of radiation emitted by galaxies throughout the Universe.

The video allows viewers to imagine: what if a space probe touched down on the dwarf planet instead of passing by?

Student discussions with scientists and engineers continue during lunch, followed by a tour of space simulation labs, science / engineering demonstrations — even a peek as the Van Allen Probes were being built in the cleanroom.

For instance, during the decade it orbited Venus, the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier prSpace Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier prspace, something discovered by earlier probes.

The research from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is tSpace Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is tspace probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is today.

NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has received the final piece of data collected by the agency's New Horizons probe during its encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto, which took place Jul. 14.

But Enceladus has one thing Europa doesn't — it has been visited very closely by a robotic space probe that could take a sniff of its famous water vapor plumes.

NASA has released a composite image created from observations made by the Voyager 2 probe and the Hubble Space Telescope, displaying intense auroras glowing in the atmosphere of the icy planet Uranus.

By probing these remote regions of space, astronomers gain more information on galaxy development.

Mercury is the target of BepiColombo, the European space probe to be launched this Fall, led by the European Spatial Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration agency.

Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, such RTG's have been included on many past deep space probes such as the Cassini mission to Saturn, the Galileo orbiter of Jupiter, and the Voyager craft now on their way out of the solar system.

There was also a discussion of how the future James Webb Space Telescope will help us understand the cosmic frontier probed by the Frontier Fields.

The tentatively scheduled missions to be launched by the nation includes lunar probes, crewed space missions and the construction of a space station.

This infrared image shows a laser beam signal from NASA's LADEE moon probe as seen in infrared by the European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station in Tenerife, Spain on Oct. 26, 2013.