Sentences with phrase «flyby as»

Only then did one of the project scientists, the astronomer Carl Sagan, come up with an extraordinary idea: to use an Earth flyby as an...

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Once all of JunoCam's raw photo data is verified, processed into full color, and stitched together as a giant mosaic image of the probe's flyby, it will be unrivaled in history.

Once all of JunoCam's raw photo data is verified, processed into full color, and stitched as a giant mosaic image of the probe's flyby, it will be unrivaled in history.

In an election year when reality seems as remote as a Pluto flyby; a year already marked by bombastic promises of walls, jobs, «a future to believe in» and free stuff for everybody, maybe we should take a quick break from the narcoleptic snooze imposed on us by the mass media.

Our place in the universe, including all our human history all along, as is seen from space starting at 600,000 miles away, and down to a flyby proximity, a tiny speck.

Her BFF and crony, corrupt Chuck Schumer, has been as big a failure — and upstate county flybys won't hide that fact.»

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 flyby also put Cassini on course for its dramatic last act, known as the Grand Finale.

The instruments on the flyby vessel also will measure the composition of material sprayed out of the crater as sunlight illuminates the gas and dust.

NASA's New Horizons probe has officially begun to execute its sequence of Pluto flyby observations as it zooms toward its closest approach to the dwarf planet on July 14.

The flyby vessel will slow down and record the crash through telescopes as the nucleus and the impactor slam together at 6.2 miles per second, generating an explosive force of 4.5 tons of TNT.

«During the Earth flyby, the science and operations teams are co-located, performing daily activities together as they will during the asteroid encounter.»

As a result of the flyby, the velocity change to the spacecraft was 8,451 miles per hour (3.778 kilometers per second).

Worlds that journey far from the sun have exotic geology with landscapes made of many different frozen materials, as the recent flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft showed.

First witnessed in Jupiter's clouds as rare flashes of scattered light by Voyager 1 in its 1979 flyby and observed decades later by the Galileo orbiter, Jupiter's lightning is thought to be an indirect tracer of the planet's water content.

As the probe drew nearer to its home planet, just a sliver of Earth was visible, but the flyby nonetheless revealed striking detail — a swirl of clouds above Antarctica is discernible, as is highly reflective ice near the South PolAs the probe drew nearer to its home planet, just a sliver of Earth was visible, but the flyby nonetheless revealed striking detail — a swirl of clouds above Antarctica is discernible, as is highly reflective ice near the South Polas is highly reflective ice near the South Pole.

It was discovered Saturday, July 7, in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of a campaign to identify possible hazards to the New Horizons spacecraft, now en route to Pluto for a 2015 flyby.

Comet C / 2013 A1, also known as comet Siding Spring, will pass within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet — less than half the distance between Earth and our moon and less than one - tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of Earth.

As planned by the Juno team, citizen scientists took the raw images of the flyby from the JunoCam site and processed them, providing a higher level of detail than available in their raw form.

However, the Europa mission is currently being designed as a spacecraft that will pursue a series of flybys.

The image was taken on July 10, 2017 at 07:10 p.m. PDT (10:10 p.m. EDT), as the Juno spacecraft performed its 7th close flyby of Jupiter.

As a worldwide audience awaits images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto on July 14, NAU scientists already are supporting astronomers» understanding of the dwarf planet's surface.

Just as important, the team concluded that once TESS reached its P / 2 orbit — through a series of maneuvers also involving a lunar flyby to gain momentum from the Moon's gravity — it would remain stably in that orbit for several decades.

This implausible situation gets better as Polaris slowly creeps toward its one - half - degree flyby of the pole a century from now.

The NASA probe would also make close flybys of another Jovian moon, Io, while the ESA orbiter, dubbed Laplace (named for the French mathematician and astronomer), would investigate Callisto as well as Ganymede.

Previous comet missions, such as ESA's Giotto and NASA's Stardust, were brief flybys, catching a few hours in the life of a comet as it zipped past.

As New Horizons completes its flyby of Pluto and continues deeper into the Kuiper Belt, NASA's multifaceted journey of discovery continues.»

As exciting as these discoveries are, they are only the first hintsof what Titan really looks like; a series of flybys in 2007 should fillout the picturAs exciting as these discoveries are, they are only the first hintsof what Titan really looks like; a series of flybys in 2007 should fillout the picturas these discoveries are, they are only the first hintsof what Titan really looks like; a series of flybys in 2007 should fillout the picture.

The latest pictures were obtained as Cassini conducts its final (and riskiest) flybys past Saturn's moons and rings before it blazes into the planet's atmosphere later this year.

If ESA decides against a mission shift to hunt for Philae, the team could still get lucky: it may find clues as to Philae's whereabouts either in existing images or in new shots taken from flybys between 20 km and 50 km away in the coming months.

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 historAs 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 historas 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 historas well as concentrating on studies of Mercury's craters and geological processes and historas concentrating on studies of Mercury's craters and geological processes and history.

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.

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

«There's so much that we can learn from close - up spacecraft observations that we'll never learn from Earth, as the Pluto flyby demonstrated so spectacularly,» said New Horizons science team member John Spencer, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colo. «The detailed images and other data that New Horizons could obtain from a KBO flyby will revolutionize our understanding of the Kuiper Belt and KBOs.»

All eight of the spacecraft's instruments as well as its imager, JunoCam, will be on during the flyby.

However, the lack of radio observations by the Cassini spacecraft during two close flybys and the lack of optical detections by Venus Express as well as ground - based observers leave the question of Venusian lightning somewhat unresolved (Yair et al. 2008; Yair 2012).

«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.

The House's dissatisfaction with the Asteroid Initiative is further evidenced by the scheduling of a hearing (as reported by the Space Politics website) by the Science, Space, and Technology Committee for 10 a.m. on Feb. 27, which will also be webcast live, titled «Mars Flyby 2021: The First Deep Space Mission for the Orion and Space Launch System?»

«Although this flyby probably won't be as dramatic as the exploration of Pluto we just completed,» according to Stern, «it will be a record - setter for the most distant exploration of an object ever made.»

A satellite doing flyby's of Europa is great, but adding a lander as well, man, that will be spectacular!

On the upcoming hearing's charter, published online on the Committee's web page, it is noted that «last year the Space Subcommittee received testimony from Mr. Dennis Tito, Chairman of the Inspiration Mars Foundation, that indicated that with existing technologies and additional development work, the SLS and Orion could potentially be ready for a Mars flyby by 2021 instead of the 2030s as proposed by the Administration.

Learning more about Europa's tectonics and the ocean below will require follow - up missions such as the proposed Europa Clipper, which would make repeated flybys of the moon while studying its surface and interior.

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.

Now, as its mission comes to an end, the spacecraft will change course, during which it will once again complete a close flyby of Titan, the US space agency explained.

If that's too ambitious, she suggests either an orbiter or slow flyby probe, so long as the spacecraft goes slow enough not to smush potential microorganisms like bugs on a car windshield.

Regardless of whether you think of Pluto as a planet or not — that debate is still raging among planetary scientists and celebrities alike — the New Horizons flyby was a historic moment for solar system exploration, and it deserved every bit of attention it got.

As for what is next for the spacecraft, once all the Pluto flyby data is guaranteed to be in good form, the team will clear the onboard memory so the probe will have space to record data from its next mission.

Artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object, as part of an extended mission after the spacecraft's July 2015 Pluto flyby.

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 spacecraft is the first to get a close look at Pluto and was designed to gather as much data as possible from a single flyby.