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They also revealed other archived Hubble images showing Neptune's rings and ring - arcs, features which Voyager 2 also spotted for the first time during its flyby in the late 1980s.

Not exact matches

The discovery started humbly, with a curious blip in magnetic field readings during the first flyby of Enceladus in 2004.

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.

The probe tried to see which chemicals were in Uranus» clouds during its 1986 flyby, but it couldn't tell scientists for certain.

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.

At its closest approach to Jupiter during each flyby, the robot briefly becomes the fastest human - made object in the solar system, reaching speeds of about 130,000 mph.

The pattern is even stranger than a mysterious spider - shaped pattern of troughs found in Mercury's Caloris basin, during Messenger's first Mercury flyby in January 2008, says team member Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

During Voyager 2's Saturn flyby, it lost movement in its scan platform, a turntable that aims the instruments at the correct targets.

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.

During Rosetta flybys of the asteroids (2867) Steins and (21) Lutetia in 2008 and 2010 respectively, the instrument measured thermal emission from these asteroids and searched for water vapor.

are visible in this image captured by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during the flyby.

During Cassini's two close Enceladus flybys this spring, its Visual Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detected strong signatures in Saturn's magnetic field around the moon.

The curious polar hexagon was discovered in the 1980s during flybys of Saturn by the twin Voyager spacecraft.

If NASA's New Horizon spacecraft should discover more moons during its July 2015 flyby of Pluto, they would certainly help in reconstructing the violent youth of the system.

The images are mosaics in infrared light based on data obtained during flybys of Titan on July 10, July 26, and Sept. 12, 2013.

Cassini also sampled the plume's composition during flybys earlier in the mission.

Although Charon's southern pole was shrouded in darkness during the flyby, the researchers analyzed the light reflecting off of the dayside of Pluto to identify a slow dimming unrelated to the illumination, suggesting that the south pole may also boast its own spot.

Saturn's moon Mimas as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft during its final flyby in January.

Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System.

«It is important to note that the orbital period does not affect the quality of the science that takes place during one of Juno's close flybys of Jupiter,» said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno, in a statement.

In a subsequent trip through the plume, Cassini's INMS was put into a mode that minimized analytical artifacts that had compromised the measurements of the energy source molecular hydrogen, or H2, during previous flybys.

In July 2015, the New Horizons probe zipped past Pluto, and images and information gathered during the historic flyby are still being processed and studied.

According to NASA, Cassini, which arrived in the Saturn system in mid-2004, obtained the images during a close flyby of Titan on July 25, when it came as close as 607 miles from the giant moon.

They decided which observations to make and in what order so that they could get the most data possible during the brief flyby.

As the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn, it made numerous observations during a series of close flybys of Titan beginning in late 2004.

Cassini detected a marked increase in particle collisions during its July flyby only 270 kilometers over a South Polar region of Enceladus.

(Courtesy NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Arizona State) MESSENGER Discovers Volcanoes on Mercury As reported in the July 4, 2008 issue of Science magazine, volcanoes have been discovered on Mercury's surface from images acquired during MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby.