Sentences with phrase «images of the planet»

Each time NASA's Juno spacecraft flies over Jupiter's clouds — roughly once every 53.5 days — it takes some of t he most incredible and unprecedented images of the planet ever seen.

Bill Anders captured the first image of our planet that changed the world on Dec. 24, 1968.

Previous missions selected by New Frontiers include New Horizons, a nuclear - powered probe that flew by Pluto in 2015 and is now going deeper into the Kuiper Belt; OSIRIS - REx, a robot that's flying out to meet asteroid Bennu and bring a sample of it back to Earth; and the Juno mission, which is looping around Jupiter, recording unprecedented data and breathtaking images of the planet.

The person who did think of the Earth Flag, a simple image of our planet on a blue background, was John McConnell, a charismatic peace activist who frequented the halls of the United Nations from the 1950s through the 1990s.

Vibrant images of our planet are common now, but it was only 70 years ago when we first caught a glimpse of Earth from a height of more than 100 miles.

«The first high - resolution images of the planet will be taken on August 27 when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter.»

Swirling clouds blanket Jupiter's northern and southern poles in the first closeup images of the planet taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Astronomers craving their first image of a planet beyond our solar system now have fresh targets to explore: newly identified siblings of Beta Pictoris, the most famous dust - shrouded star in the sky.

Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet - lovers have been hooked on auroras on other planets.

Ever since, it has been returning stunning images of the planet's surface along with evidence of water and carbon dioxide ice.

The Soviet Union and United States both had several failures with their earliest Mars probes, but on July 14, 1965 NASA's Mariner 4 sent home the first close - up images of another planet.

How realistic are images of planets around other stars — and should they be?

Other European astronomers are pursuing their own plans, examining whether planned upgrades to a different VLT instrument called CRIRES or even a small Proxima - dedicated observatory could offer an alternate path to images of the planet.

And then I would hand off the rest of the money to NASA, which would need about one - thousandth of that to build satellites that could go out and take images of the planets to see if they really are habitable.

The storm, known as the Great Red Spot, is seen here swirling at the centre of the image of the planet.

The end result would be a clean, clear image of the planet that SPHERE alone could never produce.

The first attempts to do that relied on images of the planet at night.

Within two hours Phoenix had transmitted the first surface images of the planet's polar terrain: a level plain marked with regular octagonal mounds and furrows, evidence of freeze - thaw cycles in a substance that Phoenix's instruments would prove to be frozen water.

It's worth remembering that these planets are so far away that you're never going to have an image of a planet with a little moon next door, so you have to find these tricky ways of figuring out that there's a moon present,» says Marley.

Although the increased size of the E-ELT will be essential to obtaining an image of a planet at larger distances in the Milky Way, the light collecting power of the VLT is just sufficient to image a planet around the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

Since 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been circling Saturn and sending back to Earth stunning images of the planet's rings and moons.

The team that made the discovery, led by Keele University's Dr John Southworth, used the 2.2 m ESO / MPG telescope in Chile to take images of the planet's host star GJ 1132.

The Voyager space probes sent back some amazing images of the planets in the outer Solar System, and they're still talking to Earth every day via Australia's tracking station.

A new study has proposed utilising the observing capabilities of Hubble together with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, for capturing stereoscopic 3 - D images of planets in the Solar System.

Cassini has been in continual orbit around Saturn since 2004, capturing images of the planet in varying lighting conditions and from a wide range of angles.

The beam of 8.5 - GHz microwaves sent from Goldstone bounced off Mercury and was collected at the VLA to produce a radar image of the planet.

Ahead of Juno's arrival, the Hubble Space Telescope took some stunning new images of bright, colorful auroras in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, and the spacecraft itself took images of the planet and its four brightest moons.

To validate candidate planets identified by K2, the researchers obtained high - resolution images of the planet - hosting stars from Keck Observatory's near infrared camera (NIRC2), the Gemini and Large Binocular Telescope (among others) as well as high - resolution optical spectroscopy using Keck Observatory's high resolution spectrograph (HIRES) instrument and the AUtomated Planet Finder.

To validate candidate planets identified by K2, the researchers obtained high - resolution images of the planet - hosting stars as well as high - resolution optical spectroscopy data.

Explanation: As the New Horizons spacecraft sweeps through the Solar System, it is taking breathtaking images of the planets.

This gear allows the probe to analyze surface minerals, hunt for underground water, monitor Martian weather and take spectacular up - close images of the planet's surface.

On March 29, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft began sending its first close - up images of planet Mercury from orbit (MESSENGER news release and feature release; and Kenneth Chang, New York Times, March 30, 2011).

Capturing images of a planet, and other scientific data, and transmitting them back to Earth using a compact on - board laser communications system.

Directed by Stephen van Vuuren and narrated by LeVar Burton of Star Trek fame, In Saturn's Rings is a large - format look at NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn, made using over 7.5 million real high - resolution images of the planet, its moons, and other astronomical objects, carefully assembled and presented using classical multi-plane animation techniques.

As Mr. Dobson philosophizes in voice - over, we see stunningly beautiful images of the planets, stars and galaxies he describes.

This can also be used as a teaching tool, where a webcam reads a card held by the teacher and the display on the card changes — so that for example, an image of Planet Earth can then be manipulated into the different elements of crust, mantle etc..

For students who may struggle with this task, you can create a scaffolded worksheet that includes the names and images of the planets.

For Conserve, it's an image of planet Earth enshrouded by clouds, while Excite — the 2018 Lincoln Navigator's version of a «Sport» mode — brings up a pair of taillights zipping through the dark.

The Sony event began with piano music and swirling blue images of Playstation iconography, gently segueing into a 4 - minute trailer for Destiny - ironically, a shooter - featuring a Mars landing, voice - of - god backstory (velvety VO by Lance Reddick Bill Nighy, thanks to commenter Jason for correction), and images of planets underscored by a Halo-esque vocal chorus.

There has been a revolution in how we picture space, and images of the planets and stars are among the wonders of this century.

Honda has unveiled the colour scheme for their new Formula One 2007 car and it features an image of Planet Earth instead of the usual advertising and sponsor logos.

We will soon see fresh, beautiful new images of our planet every day.

NASA's Cassini probe has sent dazzling up - close images of the planet's icy rings with new details.

Political parties, trade unions, and even giant corporations have sought to attach themselves to the image of planet - saving.

Not exact matches

It's been orbiting the sixth planet from the sun ever since, sending back data of immense scientific value and images of magnificent beauty.

In the image above, the light of a new day on Saturn illuminates the planet's wavy cloud patterns and the smooth arcs of its vast rings.

«As it turns out, one of the perhaps six people on planet Earth who could have looked at my cartoon and said «yes» was a woman married to a guy who was the spitting image of, and had the same job as, Dilbert.

But in sharing detailed images of giant rockets, spaceships, fuel pods, and other crucial components of his Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS), Musk left out some important stuff, including where he plans to fit 100 to 200 passengers on each trip to the red planet.

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.

The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.