Sentences with phrase «designed orbits around the planet»
Not exact matches
Spacecraft orbiting other planets won't be any help this time around for the same reason, but another set of instruments will step up: solar observatories like SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, all of which are designed to stare straight at the sun's surface.
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It will carry a Wide Field Instrument for surveys, and a Coronagraph Instrument designed to block the glare of individual stars and reveal the faint light of planets orbiting around them.
A European - built orbiter designed to seek out the source of methane on Mars slipped into orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven - month interplanetary journey, but mission control lost contact with an experimental landing probe just before touchdown.
Rather than seeing the planet from hundreds of kilometers away, DSCOVR was designed to track our orbit around the Sun from 1.5 million kilometers away.