Sentences with phrase «from orbiters»

To save costs and time, NOAA administrator Conrad C. Lautenbacher said the program might eliminate some sensors from the orbiters.

«Such in situ measurements are not possible with remote sensing» from orbiters.

Black Beauty will allow NASA scientists to recalibrate chemical results from their rovers and from orbiters.

Then again, recent observations from orbiters have revealed mysterious dark streaks that seasonally flow down the sunlit sides of some Martian hillsides and craters.

Radar measurements and models of Earthly glacial ice flows led researchers to conclude that the glaciers spotted on Mars from orbiters contain nearly 150 billion cubic meters of water.

Unfortunately, the team never got any signal back after Beagle 2 detached from the orbiter.

Immediately after launch, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi took video of the external tank as it separated from the orbiter while fellow astronaut Andy Thomas snapped digital photographs.

«HiRISE gives us 0.3 - meter [one - foot] resolution on the ground, so we can combine those orbital images with ground images to identify rocks from the orbiter and the ground,» Ron Li, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, explained at a recent American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

The Beagle 2 lander, which has not yet been attached to the spacecraft, is a big worry because if it fails to separate from the orbiter as the package approaches Mars, both will be lost.

Not exact matches

New images beamed down from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact scars from the two tungsten counter-weights and the cruise stage, which broke apart and landed about 50 miles from where Curiosity hunkered down at its landing site, later named Bradbury Landing, in Gale Crater on Aug. 5.

The new work by Okubo and his USGS colleagues zoomed out for a wider view of the canyons, yet used incredibly detailed images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera to look for signs of ancient shallow pools.

In January this year, it was announced that the lander had been identified in images taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2013; these showed the lander as a glinting object, just a few pixels wide, about 5 km from the intended touchdown site.

Planetary scientist Heather Meyer, now at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, used data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to...

A new global map of light plains from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera.

A few orbiters have visited Venus in the past decade, including the European Space Agency's Venus Express from 2006 to 2014, and the Japanese space agency's Akatsuki, in orbit since December 2015.

Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

They combined data from LEND with lunar topography and illumination maps derived from LRO's LOLA instrument (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter), and temperature maps from LRO's Diviner instrument (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment) to discover the greater hydrogen abundance and associated surface conditions on PFS.

LUNAR LOOK A new moon map, compiled using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, is the most detailed global look yet at the moon's light - colored plains (shaded green).

Today's Mars orbiters are vital for relaying data from rovers back to Earth.

With hordes of cheap orbiters filling the skies, researchers and start - ups are promising a powerful new perspective on earthly activities that range from global commerce to perfecting the art of mining landfills for recyclable materials.

NASA would also like to see orbiters that can return to Earth with Martian samples sent up by capsule from a planned rover.

But planetary scientists reviewing data from the Galileo orbiter mission have recently found something almost comfortingly familiar: anvil - shaped clouds that seem to be Jovian thunderheads.

Once he had the signal from the lab glass, he used an algorithm designed to pick out similar signals in data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which flies aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Detection of the impact glass by researchers at Brown University, Providence, R.I., is based on data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Fisher and her colleagues found evidence of lunar frost by comparing temperature readings from LRO's Diviner instrument with brightness measurements from the spacecraft's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA.

Undergirding this new optimism are reams of data — from Earth - based telescopes as well as Mars orbiters, landers, and rovers — that have slowly painted a much more complete and complicated picture of the Mars environment stretching back billions of years, providing intriguing hints that microbes might have once evolved there, and might yet endure.

The scientists relied on data from the pair of GRACE satellites — NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment orbiters launched in 2002 — that measure subtle changes in Earth's gravitational field, which are often the result of shifting water, whether on the surface or deep beneath it.

Now images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal 14 more, all over the moon's surface.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

According to a year's worth of data sent back from the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter launched in November 2005, the second planet from the sun is nothing like Earth — from its torrid surface to the upper reaches of its acid - laced atmosphere.

Stone stepped down from JPL in 2001, but his touch remains in the current cadence of Mars exploration, alternating between big - budget missions like Curiosity and smaller ones like the MAVEN orbiter, which studies the Martian atmosphere.

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Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.

While we humans have only set foot on the planet we sprang from and one solitary moon, we've constructed probes, orbiters, and rovers to saunter out into space and send back their reports.

Data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan - 1 lunar orbiter shows a diverse mineralogy in the subsurface of the giant South Pole Aitken basin.

Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).

After analysing the moon's wrinkled surface with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Klimczak thinks that the moon shrank by at least 2 kilometres — previous estimates pegged the contraction at only about 200 metres.

The moon may carry material produced by life from Earth dating back to when plants first filled the planet's air with oxygen, according to study of data from a Japanese lunar orbiter.

Examining the volcanic features within the caldera required high - resolution imaging, which the researchers obtained from the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Around the south pole of Enceladus — a 500 - kilometer - wide runt of a moon many expected to be rather inert and uninteresting — the orbiter saw tantalizing signs of activity — plumes of water vapor venting into space from fissures in the icy surface.

This research benefited from coordinated use of multiple instruments on Mars orbiters, plus the longevities at Mars now exceeding 11 years for MRO and 16 years for Odyssey.

A cross-section of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced - color view from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Another of NASA's Mars probes, the Mars Odyssey orbiter, temporarily stopped relaying data from Spirit and its twin Opportunity back to Earth in November following a glitch, but the problem has since been resolved.

For example, when the lunar orbiter PFS - 2 was released from Apollo 16 in 1972 it was expected to stay in orbit for 18 months, but these perturbations caused it to crash onto the lunar surface after only 34 days.

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present - day Mars.

The facility monitors signals being beamed from the space program's star performers, including the Mars rover Curiosity, the Cassini orbiter exploring Saturn and its neighborhood, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, which follows Earth around the sun, collecting information on stars and galaxies.

An odd offset of the ice from the moon's current north and south poles was a tell - tale indicator to Siegler and prompted him to assemble a team of experts to take a closer look at the data from NASA's Lunar Prospector and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

NeMO's most pressing duty, in many eyes, is to take the baton from veteran NASA spacecraft — the 2001 Mars Odyssey as well as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been on duty since March 2006 — that are at risk of expiring of old age.

A cry for help has come from planetary scientists pleading for a Next Mars Orbiter — or NeMO for short.

The global maps were created from data obtained by an instrument called the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), which bounces an infrared laser beam off the surface and calculates the distance from the spacecraft by measuring the time it takes to detect the reflected pulse.