Sentences with phrase «gathered during the flyby»

Not exact matches

«The worst thing would have been no replacement target,» says planetary scientist Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, Seattle, who leads the Stardust mission en route to gather dust during a flyby of Comet Wild 2.

During the flyby, the spacecraft gathered an abundance of data on the planet, its atmosphere, its rings and its moons.

In July 2015, the New Horizons probe zipped past Pluto, and images and information gathered during the historic flyby are still being processed and studied.

(NASA's Juno mission is now gathering data during repeated close flybys of Jupiter's cloud tops.)