Sentences with word «flyby»

In a handful of flybys of Titan in the past 6 months, Cassini scientists have seen signs of waves on three different seas: Kraken Mare, Ligeia Mare, and Punga Mare.

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

The Pluto flyby of 2015 put space exploration back in the headlines as the New Horizons spacecraft sent captivating images of the dwarf planet back to Earth.

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.

For the first time, images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto — the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July.

The Pluto flyby mission revealed a destination beyond the dwarf planet exhibiting bright red colors.

Tim Blais, the Canadian scientist and musician known as acapellascience on YouTube, was clearly getting excited about the science behind New Horizons» journey when he released this music video, «Pluto Mars - Outbound Probe» in the days leading up to the historic Pluto flyby on July 14.

The previous year 1965 Mariner IV spacecraft made its first flyby of Mars and found a planet with little or no signs of intelligent life.

The available knowledge of the characteristics of radiation environments at different planetary systems is based on in - situ and remote sensing measurements from flybys as well as orbiting spacecraft.

A Mars flyby in February 2009 will help things along, giving Dawn a gravitational kick.

When New Horizons made its historic flyby of Pluto, it also studied the moons around the dwarf planet.

The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet.

The Juno team presents a low - resolution Earth flyby video as well as data acquired by the spacecraft as it zipped past the home planet.

During two days of observation, Messenger surveyed vast stretches of Mercury's surface that had lain in darkness when NASA's Mariner 10 probe made its last flyby in 1975.

NASA's extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once - in - a-lifetime comet flyby on Sunday, Oct. 19.

Over 2015 and 2016, Cassini began making its final flybys of Saturn's moons.

The New Horizons flyby in July may help solve the mystery of Kerberos» dark surface, and will refine scientists» understanding of the odd rotational and orbital patterns uncovered by Hubble.

Soon he's doing flybys over ticked - off commies and looking for ways to earn some scratch on the side to pay for his expanding family.

«The jury is still on out on this until the results from the final Enceladus flybys of last year are fully analyzed.»

Data gathered from multiple flybys by Cassini since 2005 have revealed large liquid lakes at the poles, as well as mountains, rivers and potentially volcanoes.

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Planetary science would be boosted by 16 % under the budget, to $ 1.9 billion, with explicit support for Europa Clipper, the agency's mission to make multiple flybys past Jupiter's icy moon, and the 2020 Mars rover.

If everything else goes well — including a lunar flyby in May researchers will start getting results from the planet - hunting telescope in a few months, after it reaches its final orbit in June.

Launched in 1977, these spacecraft were originally tasked with flybys of Jupiter and Saturn to snap photos and gather data on temperature and atmosphere composition.

It was about 50 kilometers — the closest flyby over the tiger stripes.

On its initial science flyby last August, Juno captured the first image of Jupiter's main ring seen from the inside looking out.

The system was successfully tested on NASA's Deep Space 1 probe, which performed an asteroid flyby in 1999.

Two recent flybys provided better viewing geometry.

Because the two Voyager flybys occurred near an equinox and thus returned no views of winter, this extreme coloration came as quite a surprise.

The first flyby also demonstrated that scientists have a lot to learn about what's happening inside Jupiter, the researchers said.

During Juno's next flyby on July 11, the spacecraft will pass directly over the planet's Great Red Spot, a massive storm south of the equator that has existed for centuries.

«In the 1960s, NASA expended nearly as much study money and effort on manned Mars and Venus flyby mission planning as it did on its more widely known plans for manned Mars landings,» writes Portree.

NASA had visited Mars several times before, but those missions were just flybys.

Two more flybys of Enceladus are currently planned, one next month and one in March 2008.

Rather than using multibillion - dollar laser arrays to boost small light sails to relativistic speeds for one - time flybys, Heller and Hippke propose using starlight alone to send larger sails on more leisurely journeys that would take them to all three stars in the Alpha Centauri system and leave them parked in orbits there.

The 3.6 - ton probe, slated to launch as early as 2022, would conduct flybys of Jupiter's intriguing frozen moon to map its icy crust and subsurface ocean.

Meanwhile, the probe will continue sending data from the Pluto flyby through the end of 2016.

Further boosting the historical resonances, the New Horizons Pluto flyby occurred 50 years to the day after Mariner 4 sailed past Mars and returned the first images of a planet from deep space.

The mission team also is using OSIRIS - REx's Earth flyby as an opportunity to test and calibrate the spacecraft's instrument suite.

Extensive «rays» of impact debris were seen to emanate from two other bright and apparently young craters, with at least one newly imaged by MESSENGER (more discussion and images from MESSENGER's second flyby on October 6, 2008).

The spacecraft is already collecting data about the Pluto system, and its nine - day flyby sequence will continue through July 16.

IN THE REARVIEW WINDOW A final image of Saturn's moon Titan (like one shown here from the Cassini spacecraft's last distant flyby September 11) will be among the «final picture postcards of the Saturn system... to put in our Cassini scrapbook,» Linda Spilker, head scientist for the Cassini mission, said in a news conference September 13.

Observations made during the New Horizons flyby provide a detailed snapshot of the current state of Pluto's atmosphere.

One artist's concept of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, the next flyby target for NASA's New Horizons mission.

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.

The specific launch date of 2018 was chosen by Tito after consulting a feasibility analysis study that had been made in the 1990s, which showed that launch windows for very fast flyby missions to Mars which require the minimum amount of fuel (also known as free - return trajectory missions), open every 15 years when Earth and Mars properly align in their orbits.

After appointing an expert a few days back, the Cupertino giant has now reported to have bought Flyby Media, an augmented reality startup that allows mobile devices to «see» their surroundings.

Traveling above Jupiter at more than 130,000 mph, NASA's $ 1 billion Juno probe took its ninth set of stunning flyby images on October 24.

«It is a truly remarkable achievement, one which we will later be able to apply when future flyby opportunities present themselves.»

Astronomers identify the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system: A dim star that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago