Sentences with phrase «during a flyby by»
Here's a closeup of Comet Hartley 2, which was photographed during a flyby by the EPOXI mission.
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This illustration, created by Business Insider based on an image provided by Hansen, shows approximately what JunoCam will see and what it won't (in red) during its flyby.
This illustration, created by Business Insider based on an image provided by Hansen, shows approximately what JunoCam will see (center) and what it won't (in red) during its flyby.
This unprocessed view of Saturn's moon Enceladus was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a close flyby of the icy moon on Oct. 28, 2015.
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.
During three flybys of Enceladus, between April 2010 and May 2012, the scientists collected extremely precise measurements of Cassini's trajectory by tracking the spacecraft's microwave carrier signal with NASA's Deep Space Network.
While combing through data collected by NASA's Cassini mission during flybys of Enceladus, astronomers from Cornell University, the University of Texas and NASA have found the first evidence that the moon's axis has reoriented, according to new research published in Icarus.
are visible in this image captured by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during the flyby.
The curious polar hexagon was discovered in the 1980s during flybys of Saturn by the twin Voyager spacecraft.
Saturn's moon Mimas as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft during its final flyby in January.
However, the lack of radio observations by the Cassini spacecraft during two close flybys and the lack of optical detections by Venus Express as well as ground - based observers leave the question of Venusian lightning somewhat unresolved (Yair et al. 2008; Yair 2012).
The spacecraft, powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, managed to acquire 50 gigabits of data during the flyby, where it came within 7,800 miles of the small planet.
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.