Sentences with phrase «data on comet»

After a dramatic, one - in - a-million-years close encounter between Mars and comet Siding Spring on Sunday, all five functioning US Mars probes survived, and are returning valuable data on the comet.

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 the comet.

Incoming data on the comet's mass, density and surface will help ESA narrow the choice to as many as five possible zones, each 600 metres across.

But disintegration would in some ways be even more revealing because it would provide data on the comet's internal construction — and, by extension, on the way it formed in the first place.

Not exact matches

Based on the Hubble data, the research team suggests that sunlight heated the surface of the comet, causing it to expel jets of dust and gas.

«Astronomers capture best view ever of disintegrating comet: Using Hubble telescope, team gathers data on size, speed and path of debris.»

Drawing on his data from the Hubble observations, Li estimates that the nucleus — the solid body of the comet itself — is no more than about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) across, smaller than what many astronomers initially expected for such an energetic comet.

Based on data through April 7, 2013, the latest orbital plot places the comet's closest approach to Mars slightly closer than previous estimates, at about 68,000 miles (110,000 kilometers).

New analyses of lander data reveal the comet as uniform on the inside, but full of variety on the outside.

In May, Drake Deming of NASA was collecting data he hoped might reveal a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a red dwarf (a small and relatively cool star) called Gliese 436; NASA had allowed him to use a spacecraft called Epoxi, which is on its way to a rendezvous with a comet, to observe several stars that are already known to have planets.

This proximity will provide an unprecedented opportunity for researchers to gather data on both the comet and its effect on the Martian atmosphere.

However, the legacy of the comet will go on for years as scientists analyze the tremendous data set collected during ISON's journey.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

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.

22 - 24 August European Space Agency will use data from Rosetta to choose up to five possible landing sites on the comet

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.

A radar instrument, working in concert with a receiver on Philae, got data about the interior of the comet that could help unravel a major question: Does 67P have its duck head and body because two separate cometesimals came together?

«It all begins with an observer making observations,» Gareth Williams of the Minor Planet Center, which collects data on asteroids and comets and calculates their orbits, told Space.com.

MAVEN's instruments sent back data on the gases and dust released by Siding Spring, while others are currently assessing the impact of the comet's tail on the Martian atmosphere.

With this data, artist, writer and curator Michael Benson hopes to create an image of Pluto's landscape to complement his portfolio of photographic portraits on the planets, moons, asteroids and comets in our solar system.

Based on the data in your table and graph, which type of comet melts the fastest?

Make a graph of your data with the type of comet (large or small) on the horizontal axis and the average % melted on the vertical axis.

A fact sheet on many comets is also available from NASA's National Space Science Data Center.