Sentences with phrase «comet orbiter»

Fortunately, they were helped by reusing code originally written for the Rosetta comet orbiter.

On 12 November, the Rosetta comet orbiter dropped Philae from an altitude of 22.5 kilometers.

The comet orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko at 7:19 a.m. Eastern and immediately shut down, bringing to an end a nearly 26 - month mission in orbit around the comet.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

On September 30, the orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko and immediately shut down, bringing an end to the mission.

The discovery comes about one month before the end of the Rosetta mission; the orbiter is scheduled to land on the comet on September 30 and then shut down.

As the comet hurtles through the inner Solar System at around 100,000 km / h, the relative speed between orbiter and comet will remain equivalent to walking pace.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — The Rosetta orbiter on Wednesday dropped a spidery, three - legged robot the size of a small refrigerator and watched as it tentatively set down on a comet — the first time that the surface of these primordial balls of dust and ice has ever been explored.

Radar data helped locate an approximate position for its final resting spot — somewhere just within the rim of the large crater on the head of the duck - shaped comet, what was once known as landing site «B.» Holger Sierks, principal investigator for the orbiter's camera, was waiting for images to be downloaded to Earth tonight that he thought would contain the lander.

Sanchez - Cano has investigated the interaction of the comet with energetic particles from the Sun, and the effects of the CME and cometary encounter on the martian atmosphere, using data from ESA's Mars Express mission, NASA's MAVEN and Mars Odyssey orbiters, and the Curiosity rover on the martian surface.

Moreover, at that elevation, the orbiter has better confidence in its precise position around the comet.

The orbiter has since backed away from the comet a bit.

«Mars Orbiter's spectrometer shows Oort comet's coma.»

Three NASA Mars orbiters, two Mars rovers and other assets on Earth and in space are studying comet Siding Spring.

NASA confirms that the Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter, along with the rovers Curiosity and Opportunity came through without a scratch and are returning valuable data on theOrbiter (MRO), and the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter, along with the rovers Curiosity and Opportunity came through without a scratch and are returning valuable data on theorbiter, along with the rovers Curiosity and Opportunity came through without a scratch and are returning valuable data on the comet.

In anticipation of the encounter, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and ESA's Mars Express were sent into orbits timed to place them on the opposite of the planet from the incoming debris of the comet's tail.

ESA's Rosetta orbiter is preparing to make a daring 6 km (3.7 mile) pass of one of Comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko's most active regions — an area on the comet's larger lobe designated as Imhotep.

Five images of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Image: NASA / JPL - Caltech / University of Arizona)

According to observations made by NASA and ESA orbiters, the extremely close flyby of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring was accompanied by a meteor shower larger than any seen on Earth.

Akatsuki is at Venus, several rovers and orbiters are at Mars, the Juno spacecraft just reached Jupiter, Cassini is still orbiting Saturn, Dawn is still at Ceres, and Rosetta continues to study the comet 67P.

chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

The Cosmic Exploration chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.