Sentences with phrase «from planetary spacecraft»

Although the torrent of new data from planetary spacecraft during the past 20 years has increased interest in worlds beyond our own, that interest has been evergreen.

Not exact matches

- NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, then about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from Jupiter, observed the impacts with its ultraviolet spectrometer and a planetary radio astronomy instrument.

Essam Marouf, a planetary scientist at San José State University in California, reported on the first results from a separate radar experiment that sent radar reflections to Earth instead of back to the spacecraft.

The new observations are «going to enable great comparisons with what we saw from the Galileo spacecraft 20 years ago — and Voyager 20 years before that,» says Amy Simon, an expert in planetary atmospheres at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Maria Zuber Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Science, MIT Using laser ranging, gravity measurements, and data from spacecraft, Zuber maps surface features and probes the interior of Mars, Venus, Jupiter's moons, and our own moon.

I question Alberto Fairen and Dirk Schulze - Makuch's statement that planetary protection, such as spacecraft sterilisation, prevents missions from going to...

Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, made the finding after combing through pictures from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

The Cassini spacecraft swinging through orbits around Saturn and its satellites has been sending back extraordinary pictures of its own, particularly from the moon Enceladus, and if they are less famous among most of the public, they may be no less inspirational to planetary scientists.

Images from the Deep Space 1 spacecraft show that Comet Borrelly is the darkest object yet observed in the inner solar system, and several spots on its surface are blacker than anything planetary scientists have ever seen.

Zooniverse's Exoplanet Explorers project invites citizen scientists to scour data from the Kepler spacecraft - within two days they found a planetary system

Planetary scientist Will Grundy of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., and colleagues used images of Charon taken by the New Horizons spacecraft and computational analysis to demonstrate that methane from Pluto is a reasonable culprit for Charon's rust - colored pole.

Chancia and Hedman are well - versed in the physics of planetary rings: both study Saturn's rings using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Saturn.

Spacecraft instruments will gather continuous data on the interplanetary environment where the planetary system orbits, including measurements of the high - energy particles streaming from the sun and dust - particle concentrations in the inner reaches of the Kuiper Belt.

For this study the researchers used images taken from Earth between 2008 and 2014; they used, among others, the astronomical cameras PlanetCam (developed by the Planetary Sciences Group itself) and Astralux, fitted to the telescopes of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería (Spain); in addition, they used the very high resolution images obtained by t he Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004.

The vast fountains of icy material erupting from Enceladus's south pole enthralled planetary scientists when they were first spotted in images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005.

The spacecraft initially identified 175 possible planetary systems for follow - up observation from the ground, says Kepler co-investigator Natalie Batalha, a professor of physics and astronomy at San Jose State University.

Led by planetary scientists Douglas Hemingway and Francis Nimmo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the study used new data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Coming hot off the heels of discoveries made by other observatories, including NASA's Kepler and CoRot (the Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits mission, led by France's CNES with contributions from the ESA), this spacecraft is intended to build significantly on our knowledge of the universe, the Solar System, and the formation of life in general.

The discovery was made by Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., after looking through photographs from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

It will also be the first planetary spacecraft to launch from the West Coast.

It's purpose is to raise awareness of NASA's planetary and astrobiologcial exploration via the viewing of beautiful, artistic imagery mostly from spacecraft.

Starting from the Earth's orbital speed of 30 kilometers per second (km / s), the change in velocity (delta - v) the spacecraft must make to enter into a Hohmann transfer orbit that passes near Mercury is large compared to other planetary missions.

(The ESA spacecraft arrived at Sol's hottest planet on March 11, 2006, where it is being used to investigate how Venus — although similar to Earth in size, mass, and composition — evolved over the past 4.6 billion years to have atmospheric and planetary surface characteristics that now appear very different from those on Earth.)

The Planetary Society's LightSail spacecraft soared into the sky aboard Wednesday's (May 20) Atlas - V launch from Cape Canaveral.

As Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, told The Guardian, the findings show that any microbes that hitch a ride to Mars onboard spacecraft launched from Earth are unlikely to survive conditions on the surface of the planet.

Over at The Planetary Society, Emily Lakdawalla highlighted an image taken by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn separate from its rings.

InSight will be the first planetary spacecraft to take off from the West Coast.

The only thing I would add is when it comes to building satellites there is an efficiency / benefit that comes from having the spacecraft development infrastructure for Earth observations in the same organization that builds spacecraft for other purposes — planetary and astrophysics.