Sentences with phrase «images of the planet at»

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

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.

Not exact matches

«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 David Gray, analyst at Planet Retail, rejects the idea that frozen food has any type of image problem.

«The images now are just at that intriguing resolution that lets you make stuff up,» says Mike Brown, the California Institute of Technology astronomer whose work helped motivate the reclassification of Pluto and Ceres as dwarf planets.

In looking at NASA images of Mars a few years ago, Brown University geologist Peter Schultz noticed sets of strange bright streaks emanating from a few large - impact craters on the planet's surface.

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

Given a few months total of telescope time stretched across perhaps three years, Lovis and Snellen say, they could image Proxima b and probe the planet's atmosphere for signs of oxygen, water vapor and methane — all crucial measurements for determining whether that faraway world is actually much like Earth at all.

Here is the collage of images uploaded by people across the planet for NASA's Cassini «Wave at Saturn» event on July 19th 2013, while Cassini snapped Earth in turn, as a teeny, tiny dot of -LSB-...]

In the hours before Cassini becomes a miniscule spark spiraling into Saturn's massive atmosphere, one of its final tasks will be capturing and sending back images of its most cherished targets: Titan and its methano - logical weather; Enceladus and its watery plumage setting behind Saturn's northern rim; a moonlet nicknamed «Peggy» being born at the edge of a ring; and a family portrait of the planet and its rings.

Last year the Herschel Space Observatory detected wisps of water vapor around the dwarf planet, and since its arrival at Ceres, Dawn has imaged oodles of highly reflective bright spots on the Cereian surface that may be sites of exposed water ice.

With the launch last week of 88 tiny «Doves,» the satellite company Planet now has 144 at work, which will permit daily images of the entire Earth.

But in a series of Hubble campaigns between 2005 and 2009, Nichols and his colleagues compiled enough images to show that the auroral activity at the planet's poles tends to peak in synchrony with the intensity of the SKR.

Measuring earthquake waves that travel deep inside the planet, the scientists were able to retrieve images of what goes on inside the earth's mantle at a depth of about 3,000 kilometers.

«One of the great joys of working on Cassini is getting a first look at the beautiful images the spacecraft sends down of the most photogenic planet in the solar system,» said Earl Maize, Cassini program manager.

At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 8,648 miles (13,917 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet.

In late August, Juno's stunning images of stormy Jupiter rewarded astronomers for their patience after more than a decade without a dedicated spacecraft at the planet.

The new images also revealed more evidence of volcanic activity, which was hinted at by Mariner 10, the only other mission to the planet.

«If you polled my community about what we'd wish for our ideal observatory, it wouldn't be Webb — it would be something else,» says Sasha Hinkley, an astronomer at the University of Exeter in England leading an ERS program to directly image giant planets.

Hinkley's team will point Webb at three stars thought to harbor planets, looking for new worlds and capturing images of at least one already known — a young «super-Jupiter» called HIP 65426 b that is still aglow with the leftover heat of its birth.

It's Jupiter, ablaze with infrared light in new images taken in preparation for the Juno spacecraft's July 4 arrival at the king of the planets.

The far ultraviolet images revealed that the front edges of the shimmering auroral curtains, which can stretch 1000 kilometers tall on Saturn, raced across the planet's surface at more than 4 kilometers per second — about three times faster than the planet rotates, the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

Ruslan Belikov and Eduardo Bendek, two scientists at NASA Ames Research Center, have outlined innovative plans for a small space telescope with a half - meter mirror that could launch before the end of the decade on a dedicated mission to obtain basic images of any Alpha Centauri planets.

This image is one several images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.

What is more, improved technology should also allow larger observatories such as Keck to move from the few giant planets already imaged — all of which orbit their host stars at relatively large distances — to closer - in worlds more like our own.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

Images taken with Cassini's narrow angle camera on April 15, 2013, show disturbances at the very edge of Saturn's A ring — the outermost of the planet's large, bright rings.

New Horizons images show broken terrain at Sputnik Planum's edge and a line of faults (not pictured), signaling that the dwarf planet has expanded.

Released April 27, the images of Saturn's cloud tops are a «big step forward» for understanding the planet's atmosphere, says Cassini imaging team member Andy Ingersoll, an atmospheric scientist at Caltech.

Images of this quality will provide the global context for Juno's close - up views of the planet at the same wavelength.»

Stunning new images and the highest - resolution maps to date of Jupiter at thermal infrared wavelengths give a glowing view of Juno's target, a week ahead of the NASA mission's arrival at the giant planet.

There is now a companion to Voyager 1's famous snap looking at our planet from the depths of space: a radar image of the probe taken from Earth, 11.5 billion kilometres away.

The pictures of each planet were just drawings, but I kept looking at the images thinking I saw important things.

«Finally, we now have separate images where you can see, actually see, the planet,» says astronomer Mark Marley of the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., who did not participate in the research but wrote an article for Science summarizing and analyzing the teams» results.

The full visible - light image at left shows that the dark feature resides near and below a patch of bright clouds in the planet's southern hemisphere.

The spectrograph produces 18 images at different wavelengths of light, which enables GPI to reject light from nearby stars, which can be up to 10 million times brighter than the planets being studied.

This camera, called Junocam, is designed to take hundreds of color images of the giant planet, some at resolutions never before seen, as the spacecraft orbits Jupiter, coming within 5000 km of the gas giant's cloudtops (see Figure 1a and b).

The challenge of these facilities is to image planets even closer to their stars than those at the ice line, which includes Earth - like rocky planets.

The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule in space.

CTX images Mars at 6 m per pixel resolution, and has already mapped more than one third of the planet at that resolution.

Adaptive optics images made with ARIES at the MMT of 87 Kepler Objects of Interest place limits on the presence of fainter stars in or near the Kepler... ▽ More The Kepler mission has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets, but some of the planet candidates identified by Kepler may actually be astrophysical false positives or planets whose transit depths are diluted by the presence of another star.

«With MESSENGER, we have now obtained images of the entire planet at high resolution and, crucially, at different angles to the sun that show features Mariner 10 could not in the 1970s,» Steven A. Hauck, II, a professor of planetary sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the study's co-author, said in a statement.

We present and exploit new near - infrared images and integral - field spectra of the four gas giants surrounding HR8799 obtained with SPHERE, the new planet finder instrument at the Very Large Telescope, during the commissioning and science verification phase of the instrument (July - December 2014).

This image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a field of small craters next to Kokopelli Crater, seen at bottom right in this image, on dwarf planet Ceres.

The spacecraft, which arrived at Mars on Sept. 21, 2014, has images from the nightside and the dayside of the planet.

The two sides of the planet Uranus, as viewed in this composite image by the Keck II Telescope at near infrared wavelengths.

We present and exploit new near - infrared images and integral - field spectra of the four gas giants surrounding HR8799 obtained with SPHERE, the new planet f... ▽ More The planetary system discovered around the young A-type HR8799 provides a unique laboratory to: a) test planet formation theories, b) probe the diversity of system architectures at these separations, and c) perform comparative (exo) planetology.

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.

CTX images Mars at 6 m per pixel resolution, and has already mapped more than two thirds of the planet at that resolution.

Courtesy of the Vernadsky Institute, Moscow — smaller, high - contrast image (Additional image processing by Carlé Pieters and colleagues at Brown University, assembled for Astronomy: The Cosmic Journey by William K. Hartmann and Chris Impey) Around the Venera 13 probe at bottom, the dissicated, daytime landscape of Venus displays a yellowish - orange hue under a cloudy yellowish - white sky and the natural, mustard - colored light filtering through the planet's thick atmosphere