Sentences with phrase «during orbit»

In other words, these plots show the number of planets that are visible at some point during their orbit, for a range of different wavelengths.
The top priority for learning more about Proxima b is determining whether it passes between us and its host star during its orbit.
High - precision observations from space - based observatories like Kepler or the Hubble Space Telescope can detect emission from the exoplanet as its dayside rotates in and out of view during its orbit, which astronomers can use to construct rotational brightness maps and study how energy is redistributed across the exoplanet.
Although Mercury is not tidally locked to the Sun, its rotational period of almost 59 days is tidally coupled to its orbital period of 88 days, rotating only one and a half times during each orbit in a 3:2 resonance.
NASA had a pair of satellites that gathered data on subtle changes in the Earth's mass by measuring almost indiscernible shifts in gravitational forces during orbit.
Launched on 20 May, the mission was going smoothly until the ground crew had trouble reestablishing communications after the spacecraft passed behind Venus during its orbit injection maneuver yesterday.
For centuries, scientists have studied Mercury's motion, paying particular attention to its perihelion, or the closest point to the Sun during its orbit.
The heat needed to keep it liquid has long been thought to be produced by Jupiter's gravity: Europa's distance from the gas giant changes during its orbit, which means the planet's gravitational pull on the moon varies.
MARCI will recover the objectives of the Mars Climate Orbiter MARCI wide angle camera, which was lost during orbit insertion in September 1999.
Hydra, the outermost moon, whips around its axis about 89 times during each orbit around Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.
Saturn's gravitational tides and those of Dione, a nearby moon, tug on Enceladus during its orbit.
Global warming and cooling occurs in part as a result of periodic changes in the Earth's orientation during orbit.
GHG and surface albedo changes, which we treated as specified climate forcings in evaluating fast - feedback climate sensitivity, are actually slow climate feedbacks during orbit - instigated Pleistocene glacial — interglacial climate swings.
There are also problems with the MSU / AMSU warm targets, such as the effects of moving from from the sunlit side to the night side during each orbit and changes in LECT, etc..
Look at one method humans use to seek aliens: They measure the dimming of starlight as a planet crosses in front of its host star during orbit.
Then, the exoplanet will pass in front of its host star from our point of view during its orbit, blocking some starlight and producing a distinct, periodic decrease in the star's light curve or amount of light we register over time.
They then calculated the size, position and mass of K2 - 229b by measuring the radial velocity of the star, and finding out how much the starlight «wobbles» during orbit, due to the gravitational tug from the planet, which changes depending on the planet's size.
These findings agree well with the discovery last year by Cassini that Enceladus undergoes large back - and - forth oscillations, called libration, during its orbit.
Measuring the dimming of starlight as a planet crosses the face of its star during orbit, scientists can collect a wealth of information, even without ever seeing those worlds directly.
As seen from Earth, both planets travel in front of and behind their stars during their orbits, which last only a few days.
During this orbit, in advance of the crossing, Cassini's cameras have been looking closely at the rings; in addition, the spacecraft has rotated (or «rolled») faster than engineers have ever allowed it to before, in order to calibrate the magnetometer.
«During each orbit, the spacecraft spends only a short time within the challenging radiation environment near Europa.
Back in the day, we could only determine whether a planet had water by watching it pass in front of its host star during orbit, or by collecting imaging data from planets far enough away from their host stars [source: Caltech].
During each orbit, IRAS scanned a strip of sky 30 arc minutes wide, and successive strips overlapped by 15 arc minutes to ensure that nothing was missed.
«During the Orbit of Rock, artificial texture was absorbing aggressive sound; In the kind of need, flame was burning out with the gold; What the cooling - down is, no longer brilliant but still fascinating.»
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