Sentences with phrase «by spacecraft»

But packing enough materials and equipment to build a house on a faraway planet just takes up too much cargo room when traveling by spacecraft.

The Juno team presents a low - resolution Earth flyby video as well as data acquired by the spacecraft as it zipped past the home planet.

Although the Earth Observatory typically reserves «Image of the Day» space for publishing data and images acquired by Earth - observing satellites, we are sometimes so enthralled by the spectacular images acquired by spacecraft observing other parts of the solar system that we want to share these «otherworldy» views with our visitors.

The field has long been plagued by the lack of an acceptable physical mechanism by which solar variability can affect climate, but the discovery of variability in the Sun's total irradiance (the solar «constant» of meteorology) by spacecraft instruments has pointed to a direct mechanism.

Most of Destiny's open gameworld, which is split into large, sprawling locations accessible by spacecraft, has pockets of Fallen or Hive nasties that pop - up in pre-designated areas.

Electrical power is provided by the spacecraft's solar panels, which are mounted on a rotating drive mechanism, which tilts them forwards and backwards to catch the most sunlight.

Because of Voyager 2's great distance from the Sun and New Horizons» lack of a magnetometer — an instrument that measures magnetic fields — it's not possible to say for certain if the particle changes detected by those spacecraft were caused by this particular CME.

One week ago, the MESSENGER spacecraft transmitted to Earth the first high - resolution image of Mercury by a spacecraft in over 30 years, since the three Mercury flybys of Mariner 10 in 1974 and 1975.

But this orientation means that the part of the sky being observed by the spacecraft can not generally be observed from Earth at the same time, since it is mostly in the daytime sky.

Saturn looms in the foreground of this mosaic of Cassini images, taken by the spacecraft on May 28, 2017.

Kepler 10b was detected using the transit method from more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft between May 2009 and early January 2010 and confirmed by radial velocity measurements, and there evidence for another planet (KOI 72.02) in an outer orbit with a period around 45.3 days (Kepler news release; images, animations, and discovery page; and Batalha et al, 2011).

Using infrared data collected at Mars by spacecraft, they can interpret which minerals are there and describe the geology of ancient hydrothermal systems.

This envelope can not be seen from Earth because its light is absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, but it has been detected by spacecraft.

Over the past decade, major breakthroughs in planetary geophysics have been made by spacecraft missions, space - based telescopes, and ground - based observatories including Keck.

Trajectory modeling showed that Cassini could have been sent on to survey the «ice giant» planets, not visited by a spacecraft since Voyager 2's quick flybys of Uranus in the winter of 1986 and Neptune in the summer of 1989.

Here we apply the light - curve modeling tech... ▽ More The Kepler Mission has recently announced the discovery of Kepler - 10 b, the smallest exoplanet discovered to date and the first rocky planet found by the spacecraft.

For decades now, Europa has beckoned — this moon of Jupiter which is frozen on the outside but hides a global ocean on the inside — has so far only been visited by spacecraft during brief flybys.

It is more than 2.5 times as massive as all the other planets combined, and is a mesmerizing world of colorful bands of clouds wrapping around the globe, which can be seen even in a small telescope, but exhibit incredible detail when seen by spacecraft.

This was the second asteroid to be visited by spacecraft.

This latest image was captured by the spacecraft's high - resolution stereo camera at a distance of 9,900 km (6,152 miles).

Furthermore, New Horizons scientists noted that the flyover movies show the distant world's icy terrain at a vantage point even closer than that achieved by the spacecraft itself.

When the researchers compared the X-ray absorption data gathered by the spacecraft with computer models of distribution of normal matter across the Milky Way, they discovered that their observations couldn't be explained by a smooth, uniform distribution of gas.

Now, the treasure trove of data gathered by the spacecraft before its demise is helping scientists answer questions about the solar system's innermost planet in unprecedented detail.

It was executed by the spacecraft's hydrazine - fueled thrusters at 1:15 pm EST on Wednesday November 4, taking some 20 minutes to complete.

Ceres is the first dwarf planet to be visited by a spacecraft (Dawn arrived at Ceres on March 6, 2015, well before New Horizons reached Pluto on July 14).

If we could travel to HL Tau by spacecraft, what does it look like?

Ceres id the first dwarf planet to be visited by a spacecraft from Earth.

Such an intriguing metallic planetary body has not been studied before by any spacecraft; other asteroids visited have been of the rocky variety.

As these streams can be tracked by spacecraft, this offers the potential for predicting the severity of hazardous weather events many weeks in advance.

Cassini scientists analyzed more than seven years» worth of images of Enceladus taken by the spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since mid-2004.

Pending final approval by NASA, an icy boulder dubbed 2014 MU69 — over 1 billion kilometers beyond Pluto — will be graced by the spacecraft's presence on January 1, 2019, space agency officials announced August 28.

Colaprete did not offer definitive word as to why the visual camera apparently did not detect the event but added there were interesting changes in spectroscopic data taken by the spacecraft that might have been produced by a debris cloud.

And with the probe barreling in at nearly 10 miles per second — one of the highest speeds ever achieved by a spacecraft — any encounter with a speck of shrapnel could spell disaster.

Initially the dose is minimized by the spacecraft's polar orbit, which ducks under the radiation belt, but the orbit shifts over time due to the torquing from Jupiter's gravitational field.

«It will open up a plethora of new possibilities for activities in the Antarctic — a sensor network, telemedicine; there are a tremendous number of applications enabled by this spacecraft.

But the magnetic field data gathered by the spacecraft was not what scientists had expected to see.

Instead, radar has been used by spacecraft to penetrate the clouds and map out the surface — both by reflecting radar off the surface to measure elevation and by looking at the radio emissions of the hot surface.

The research is part of the Measurements of 11 Asteroids and Comets Using Herschel (MACH - 11) program, which used Herschel to look at small bodies that have been or will be visited by spacecraft, including the targets of NASA's previous Deep Impact mission and upcoming Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - Rex).

«They are the most massive bodies between the sun and Neptune that have not been visited by a spacecraft,» says Marc Rayman, the chief engineer for a NASA mission dedicated to addressing that lapse.

Messenger flew just 200 kilometres above the planet's surface on 6 October to image 30 % of the planet that had never been photographed by spacecraft.

The only previous times Mercury was visited by a spacecraft were in 1974 and 1975 when NASA's Mariner 10 flew past it three times and mapped about 45 % of its surface.

«We thought we'd be able to explain it terms of forces generated by the spacecraft.

Siding Spring will be the first comet from the Oort Cloud to be studied up close by spacecraft, giving scientists an invaluable opportunity to learn more about the materials, including water and carbon compounds, that existed during the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

Analysis of these samples by the spacecraft's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer designed and developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, detected eight different types of metal ions, including sodium, magnesium and iron.

Undeterred by a spacecraft error that left each descent image without proper alignment information, Pascal painstakingly assembled the available images into an accurate panorama of Titan's surface as the lander saw it from about 43 miles overhead.

Two NEAs have been visited by spacecraft: 433 Eros, by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous probe, and 25143 Itokawa, by the JAXA Hayabusa mission.

Enter Anderson: he put all the data together and came up with an empirical formula that relates the probes» incoming and outgoing trajectory angles and Earth's rotational velocity to the extra acceleration experienced by the spacecraft as they swing by us.

The spectra of these materials can then be compared to those collected by spacecraft and telescopes.»

The basin was discovered during Messenger's second flyby of the planet on 6 October 2008, a manoeuvre that allowed the probe to photograph 30 % of the planet's surface not previously seen by spacecraft.

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