Sentences with phrase «first images of the planet»

Bill Anders captured the first image of our planet that changed the world on Dec. 24, 1968.

Astronomers craving their first image of a planet beyond our solar system now have fresh targets to explore: newly identified siblings of Beta Pictoris, the most famous dust - shrouded star in the sky.

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We're just now seeing them — months after we first encountered the dwarf planet — because the New Horizons spacecraft can only trickle the images back to Earth from billions of miles away.

Eighty - eight of those small satellites were the property of Planet; with these eyes on the sky, along with the 50 they already had in orbit, the company promises its customers high - resolution images of the Earth for everything from crop yield monitoring to aiding first responders with real - time images of natural disasters.

It may very well be an image - the very first image ever - of a planet caught in the act of formation.

Vibrant images of our planet are common now, but it was only 70 years ago when we first caught a glimpse of Earth from a height of more than 100 miles.

«The first high - resolution images of the planet will be taken on August 27 when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter.»

Swirling clouds blanket Jupiter's northern and southern poles in the first closeup images of the planet taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

The Soviet Union and United States both had several failures with their earliest Mars probes, but on July 14, 1965 NASA's Mariner 4 sent home the first close - up images of another planet.

MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black - and - white image from a distance of 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet.

The new image is the first in a series of annual portraits of the Solar System's outer planets, which will give us new glimpses of these remote worlds, and help scientists to study how they change over time.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first - ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on.

The first Terrestrial Planet Finder mission will take optical images of nearby stars and essentially put a thumb over the star itself to block the light and see the dim pPlanet Finder mission will take optical images of nearby stars and essentially put a thumb over the star itself to block the light and see the dim planetplanet.

Using infrared images recorded by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have created the first weather map of a planet outside our solar system.

Astronomers are racing to get the first historic image of another possibly Earth - like planet.

The image, taken in May 2012, contains a surprise: Compared with Cassini's first views of Saturn in 2004, the planet's southern hemisphere is taking on a bluish tint, and the northern hemisphere is losing its bluish tint.

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft transmitted these and other images during its first flyby of the scorched planet on January 14.

«One of the great joys of working on Cassini is getting a first look at the beautiful images the spacecraft sends down of the most photogenic planet in the solar system,» said Earl Maize, Cassini program manager.

Images from the New Horizons spacecraft show hints of what could be a few isolated clouds scattered around the dwarf planet, the first seen in otherwise clear skies.

In total, the mission gave us 21 complete images of Mars, including this, our first close view of the planet — courtesy of data transmitted by the interplanetary probe and earth - bound scientists wielding pastels (below).

The probe's laser range - finder measured less variation in the height of the planet's surface than it did in the first flyby in January, which imaged a different part of the planet.

In 1975, Venera 9 became the first probe to send back pictures from the surface of another planet: fuzzy images of the rock - strewn Venusian landscape.

The first signs of life on another planet may not be a complex signal captured by an antenna or images of a scampering creature on the horizon, but a track left in long - dried mud.

The first attempts to do that relied on images of the planet at night.

Within two hours Phoenix had transmitted the first surface images of the planet's polar terrain: a level plain marked with regular octagonal mounds and furrows, evidence of freeze - thaw cycles in a substance that Phoenix's instruments would prove to be frozen water.

The Pluto flyby will cap a remarkable half - century of planetary reconnaissance, 50 years to the day after Mariner 4 flew past Mars and returned the first image from another planet.

On the same day as this announcement, last November 14, came the report of a related breakthrough using the ground - based Gemini and Keck observatories in Hawaii, with which astronomers captured the first infrared image of three planets orbiting a star.

Taking observations from twin telescopes mounted on the noses of the planes, Caspi will capture the clearest images of the Sun's outer atmosphere — the corona — to date and the first - ever thermal images of Mercury, revealing how temperature varies across the planet's surface.

As a member of the Science Team of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, Chapman has been studying images and other data returned from the spacecraft's first flybys of Mercury and from its primary and extended orbital missions around the planet; he is Education Public Outreach liaison with the Science Team and, as a member of the Geology Discipline Group of the Science Team, he is helping to conduct searches for satellites of Mercury and putative vulcanoids, as well as concentrating on studies of Mercury's craters and geological processes and history.

The first science images and results from the vortex instrument demonstrate its ability to image planet - forming regions hidden under the glare of stars.

The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule in space.

I will present an overview of our current direct imaging search for planets in the nearby binary - rich Scorpius - Centaurus association, as well as our discovery of one of the first directly imaged planets, Scorpion - 1b, in a hierarchical triple system.

Mariner 10, the first spacecraft sent to explore Mercury, gathered images and data over just 45 percent of the planet's surface during three fly - bys in 1974 and 1975.

The Viking 1 Lander's first image of the Red Planet showed a few feet of Martian surface and the lander's own footpad.

Our goal was to take some of the first images in the EDEN survey, starting our search for habitable zone planets around nearby stars.

«We are always anxious to see that first image of the night of any planet or satellite, as we never know what it might have in store for us,» said Imke de Pater, professor at UC Berkeley and team leader.

An enchanced - color image of Mercury taken by MESSENGER, following its first flyby of the planet in January 2008.

The seven Descent Imaging Cameras will provide the spacecraft with four views including look - up cameras from the descent stage which will record images and video of a parachute deploying and inflating on another planet for the first time.

A new NASA Administrator is confirmed, our next planet - hunting mission launches, and the first 3 - D microscopic image on the space station - a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.

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On March 29, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft began sending its first close - up images of planet Mercury from orbit (MESSENGER news release and feature release; and Kenneth Chang, New York Times, March 30, 2011).

This will be the first time since Apollo that images were acquired during descent to the surface of another planet.

Mission Centaur is a nonprofit organization that fosters public and private collaboration through Project Blue, an initiative seeking to find and capture the first image of an Earth - like planet in our neighboring star system Alpha Centauri.

(Copyright Ted Stryk) MESSENGER Views Mercury's Horizon As the MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired an image mosaic of the sunlit portion of the planet.

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From its very first image of the shuttle Explorer and some of its astronauts floating close to 400 miles high, with a mammoth planet Earth huge behind them, «Gravity» revels in its ability to create images that convey the beauty, enormity and terror that being so, so far out there implies.

After a very brief teaser and some new images earlier in the week, EuropaCorp has now released the first trailer for Luc Besson's hotly - anticipated sci - fi adventure Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, starring Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider - Man 2) and Cara Delevingne (Suicide Squad).

At first, these images look like photographic renderings of one of the most photogenic places on the planet.

Inspired by Apollo 17's photograph, The Blue Marble — the first image to show the fully illuminated face of our planet — Vice President Gore challenged NASA to cr...

It was the first image to show the true, undistorted full face of our planet, its fragility and magnificence bound in one blue sphere.