Sentences with phrase «from spacecraft»

It takes almost eighteen hours for a data transmission from the spacecraft Voyager 1, now over 11 billion miles away, to reach Earth.

(After which oxygen was banned from the spacecraft interior in favor of helium.)

Measurements from spacecraft avoid this problem, and the most precise of these, made continuously since 1979 (Fig. 2a, b), have revealed changes on all time scales — from minutes to decades — including a pronounced cycle of roughly eleven years.

The solar luminosity is about 0.07 percent brighter during solar maximum than during solar minimum but observations from spacecraft in the 2000s showed that the ratio of ultraviolet to visible light is much more variable than previously thought.

«Every year, every day, we are getting beautiful data from the spacecraft.»

Recorded by a 16 mm Camera Mounted to the Exterior of the Gemini 4 Spacecraft First U.S. spacewalk, Ed White floats away from the spacecraft, Gemini 4, June 3, 1965.

It talks about Constellations and ends with a dramatic entrance from a spacecraft with a «mini» Neil Armstrong emerging and discuss about the 1st landing on the moon.

When the data from a spacecraft arrives at Earth, it is typically not in a form useful to research scientists.

Principal Investigator Alan Stern celebrates with New Horizons flight controllers after they received confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the flyby of Pluto.

But the team's theory will be hard to verify on the Red Planet itself — they don't think any pellets will ever grow large enough to be spotted in the images we receive from spacecraft orbiting the planet.

This violent end is a precaution planned by scientists to prevent any potential contamination from the spacecraft spreading to Enceladus and Titan, which are seen as potential places that microbial life could have emerged.

Scientists can't study the Sun through X-ray telescopes on Earth since the Earth's atmosphere absorbs X-rays, solar X-rays can only be studied from spacecraft above our atmosphere.

It's also the final catalog from the spacecraft's view of the patch of sky in the Cygnus constellation.»

Mission officials say the New Horizons navigation team discovered radiative thermal energy from the spacecraft's nuclear power source drove the probe slightly off course.

However, photographs and other data from spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that water once flowed on the surface of the red planet and is still present in large quantities underground.

It takes more than two hours for radio signals to travel from the spacecraft to Earth from such distances.

Voyager 1 is currently over 7 billion miles (about 11 billion kilometers) away from Earth and is still transmitting — it takes about 10 hours for the signal to travel from the spacecraft to Earth!

The HKU» Faculty of Sciences new Infrared Spectroscopy Laboratory is a facility where scientists from around the world can come to measure geological samples in order to compare the measured spectra to data from returned from spacecraft.

Radio telescopes can be called into service to receive the transmissions from spacecraft in orbit around the Earth or traveling across the Solar System.

Even though the planet - hunting telescope's crucial pointing ability was crippled last year, data mined from the spacecraft are still turning up a trove of strange and wonderful worlds, researchers said — bringing them ever closer to finding «Earth 2.0.»

The delay in the radio signal returning to Earth from the spacecraft adds to the nail - biting suspense, since it takes 48 minutes for it to come back all the way to Earth.

At 3:11 p.m. ET, a signal from the spacecraft arrived at the mission operations center.

The reschedule was caused by delays and minor component qualification test issues, as well as delays stemming from a spacecraft dome element that was damaged during the manufacturing process.

After all, who knows when the next data from a spacecraft visiting Pluto will be sent?»

New Horizons is currently so far from Earth that transmitting data to or from the spacecraft that radio signals racing through space at over 186,000 miles a second, take nearly five hours to travel between the interplanetary observatory and mission engineers on our home planet.

They looked specifically at readings from the spacecraft's laser altimeter.

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

The specific issues at that time included production delays and minor component qualification test issues as well as delays stemming from a spacecraft dome element, which was damaged during the manufacturing process.

The image that is getting much attention on social media, however, is the one from the spacecraft's Mast Cameras, which shows a figure that resembles a mouse.

Imagery from the spacecraft was combined with historical data from a previous German spacecraft called Champ and observations from ships and aircraft.

It is a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft.

NASA also continued to release new photos from the spacecraft even after Cassini had died.

In fact, the neutron detector has been on for much of TGO's cruise to Mars and is currently collecting data to continue calibrating the background flux and checking that nothing changed after the Schiaparelli module detached from the spacecraft.

Some of the instruments were mounted on long arms so they didn't pick up unwanted signals from the spacecraft.

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.

With images of Kerberos transmitted from the spacecraft on October 20, the Pluto family portrait is complete.

It is made up of images from the spacecraft's medium - resolution camera and shows three flare - ups of gas and dust.

At 8:52:37 p.m. Eastern time, a radio antenna near Madrid received the first signal from the spacecraft since it buzzed the dwarf planet.

The first result, released September 10, is a stunning, crisp mosaic of Pluto from the spacecraft's visit on July 14 as well as a closer look at the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon.

So far, only one antenna, a 22 - metre dish in the town of Pushchino, south of Moscow, has been set up to receive signals from the spacecraft.

(Gagarin ejects from the spacecraft and lands in a field in the Saratov region of the USSR, where he is approached by Anna Takhtarova and a girl)

From spacecraft studies and analysis of samples from NASA's Apollo lunar missions, the researchers knew how often large solar storms occur.

Confirmation came from a planned loss of radio signal from the spacecraft.

This program for your computer provides a «live» simulated view from the spacecraft.

This campaign includes observations from spacecraft near or orbiting the Earth, covering X-ray through visible wavelengths and ground - based observatories covering near - infrared through radio wavelengths.

«Future operational laser communication systems will have the ability to transmit more data from spacecraft down to the ground than they currently do, mitigating a significant bottleneck for scientific investigations and commercial ventures.»

He imagined lowering a bucket to siphon off some of its radiation, for example, using a space elevator stretching from a spacecraft to the black hole's radiation zone.

Two aliens emerged from the spacecraft and escorted her into it.

The color version was created from lower - resolution color data from the spacecraft's Ralph instrument.

This is the latest map of Pluto created from images taken from June 27 to July 3 by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons, combined with lower - resolution color data from the spacecraft's Ralph instrument.