Sentences with phrase «entered orbit around the planet»

Hours later, the mother ship fired its engines and entered orbit around the planet.

The probe entered orbit around the planet in March 2011.

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On July 4, the Juno Spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Jupiter — a planet scientists still know very little about, which generates extreme levels of radiation.

Researchers hope to learn more after the probe enters orbit around the Sun - baked planet.

The best information on the planet is expected to come after 18 March 2011, when Messenger enters orbit around Mercury, where it will operate for at least a year.

After the spacecraft arrives and enters into orbit around the dwarf planet, it will study the intriguing world in great detail.

Just weeks before the historic encounter of comet C / 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) with Mars in October 2014, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft entered orbit around the Red Planet.

On March 6, Dawn will enter into orbit around Ceres to capture detailed images and measure variations in light reflected from Ceres, which should reveal the planet's surface composition.

After a six - and - a-half-year journey, Cassini entered orbit around Saturn on 1 July 2004 — and immediately encountered the planet's signature feature, its rings.

NASA expects Mariner 9 is orbiting high enough to keep flying around the planet until at least 2022, but at some point the spacecraft will enter the atmosphere and crash into the surface.

The images, which show the cratered and pockmarked surface of the small icy world, were taken by the Cassini probe, which entered into orbit around the planet in 2004.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through Saturn's upper atmosphere with its final five orbits around the planet.

The spacecraft has recently entered its last year of operations, conducting more than 3,000 orbits around the planet, while transmitting more than 200,000 images back to Earth.

Dawn will be the first mission to successfully visit a dwarf planet when it enters orbit around Ceres on Friday, March 6.

When Dawn enters orbit around Ceres, it will be the first spacecraft to see a dwarf planet up - close and the first spacecraft to orbit two solar system destinations beyond Earth.

NASA released a time lapse of Jupiter's four largest moons (also called the Galilean satellites) on Monday, the day the spacecraft successfully entered orbit around the largest planet in our solar system.

After the lunar shove, TESS will enter a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth, circling our planet every 13.7 days.