Sentences with phrase «of orbiters»

Mars has a relatively well studied climate, going back to measurements made by Viking, and continued with the current series of orbiters, such as the Mars Global Surveyor.

The paths of the orbiters around Mars are shown, in addition to the location of Curiosity within Gale Crater.

Though there was never any danger of Siding Spring colliding with Mars or any of the orbiters, its tail contained gas and fine dust particles that, when they hit the Martian atmosphere and vaporized, caused what was probably a spectacular meteor shower, though one that no one could see except for the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers.

Mars has a relatively well studied climate, going back to measurements made by Viking, and continued with the current series of orbiters, such as the Mars Global Surveyor.

Numerous safety panels at NASA have reviewed the mission, and have considered outlandish possibilities, such as the tether wrapping itself round the nose of the orbiter or oscillating out of control.

Two are sticking above the tiles, one by 2.8 centimetres (1.1 inches) and the other by as much as 2.2 cm (0.9 inches) near the front of the orbiter.

Shortly before docking, astronaut John Phillips and cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev photographed the underside of the orbiter while it performed a back - flip about 180 metres below the station.

The shuttle's crewmembers will spend the rest of their day performing one final inspection of the orbiter's heat shield to ensure the sensitive tiles are intact and ready to protect the vehicle during re-entry through Earth's atmosphere.

Rosetta project scientist Matt Taylor says that early results from some of the orbiter's instruments show that the surface is slightly warmer than expected — an indication that it is more dusty and porous than icy.

At a planetary science conference last week in Tucson, Arizona, members of the orbiter's camera team presented images that showed arcs of dust emanating from jets — a finding that could help them understand the mechanisms of outgassing.

As the agency prepares to mark the 15th anniversary since the loss of the orbiter's seven member crew.

Scheduled to arrive at the planet Mars this October, this first part of the ExoMars program, consisting of an orbiter and lander, will search for gases in the Martian atmosphere that could indicate signatures of active biological or geological processes, while also testing key entry, descent and landing technologies to support future ESA missions to Mars.

NASA Space Shuttle consisted of an orbiter, solid rocket boosters and an external tank.

One example was the carbon - carbon composite leading edges of the orbiter, which experienced temperatures ranging from — 150 degrees to more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit on every flight.

Not exact matches

The rover's instruments have found no traces of the gas, in contrast to some previous observations made by Red Planet orbiters.

The new work by Okubo and his USGS colleagues zoomed out for a wider view of the canyons, yet used incredibly detailed images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera to look for signs of ancient shallow pools.

In comparison, the main space shuttle orbiter has a maximum landing weight of 230,000 pounds.

In contrast, the space shuttle orbiter has a maximum landing weight of 230,000 pounds.

But if you or your little one can handle going» round and» round, then the added bonus of Astro Orbiter «s height makes it a bit more exciting.

For some reason, even though it's really no more spinny than Dumbo or The Magic Carpets of Alladin, the Astro Orbiter makes me feel so dizzy and ill that I'm kind of out of commission for a bit.

The Orbiter will also serve as a data relay asset for the 2018 ExoMars mission until the end of 2022.

The Mars Orbiter Camera tracked the changing seasons as the first chill of winter gripped the Northern hemisphere and warm spring winds began shrinking the Southern ice cap.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully clear images of the lunar surface, produced an image that was wild and jittery.

Radar measurements and models of Earthly glacial ice flows led researchers to conclude that the glaciers spotted on Mars from orbiters contain nearly 150 billion cubic meters of water.

A new global map of light plains from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera.

Panoramic lunar view taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera of the north rim of Cabeus crater.

Researchers used over a decade of imaging data taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to investigate the composition of the Red Planet's frequent...

Practically every new rover, lander or orbiter sent to Mars in recent years turns up more evidence of water, both past and present.

Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

Most mysteriously, orbiters overhead have glimpsed the outlines of what seem to be belts of buried glaciers girdling the globe at high latitudes.

The initial 2016 phase of the mission would carry an orbiter designed to sniff out possible sources of methane and other trace gases that might signal the presence of microbial life on Mars.

Incorporating this kind of data into the models has been difficult in part because geostationary data provide fewer measurements for any given vertical slice of the atmosphere than do polar orbiters, which circle Earth at lower altitudes.

The comet orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko at 7:19 a.m. Eastern and immediately shut down, bringing to an end a nearly 26 - month mission in orbit around the comet.

Future orbiters must be able to fly close to the Martian surface to get high - resolution pictures of good landing sites.

For now, however, the latest findings show that olivine can play a significant role in shaping a planet's climate, says Bethany Ehlmann of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who led the Martian orbiter discovery.

But the agency says this year's budget shortfall will force it to delay the launch of the program's second orbiter by 14 to 18 months, beyond the expected lifetime of the first satellite.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which maps the moon, came close enough to image the Apollo 11 lander and traces of the astronauts» presence.

On September 30, the orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko and immediately shut down, bringing an end to the mission.

With hordes of cheap orbiters filling the skies, researchers and start - ups are promising a powerful new perspective on earthly activities that range from global commerce to perfecting the art of mining landfills for recyclable materials.

NASA wants an orbiter worthy of human missions to Mars.

In craters near the south pole of the moon, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter found some bright areas and some very cold areas.

It was a world record for India and a critical milestone for U.S. companies and institutions, which built 96 of the hand - sized orbiters.

And even after billions of dollars» worth of adorable rovers and eagle - eyed orbiters have prodded and probed the planet, the results have been at best ambiguous and at times downright confusing.

Detection of the impact glass by researchers at Brown University, Providence, R.I., is based on data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

William Schreiner, an aerospace engineer who runs COSMIC - 2 for UCAR, said that, at least in theory, there will be plenty of room for public and private orbiters.

The team found that patterns in radar maps of layers in the ice cap made with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are consistent with flowing ice (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009je003405).

Fisher and her colleagues found evidence of lunar frost by comparing temperature readings from LRO's Diviner instrument with brightness measurements from the spacecraft's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA.

Undergirding this new optimism are reams of data — from Earth - based telescopes as well as Mars orbiters, landers, and rovers — that have slowly painted a much more complete and complicated picture of the Mars environment stretching back billions of years, providing intriguing hints that microbes might have once evolved there, and might yet endure.

The scientists relied on data from the pair of GRACE satellites — NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment orbiters launched in 2002 — that measure subtle changes in Earth's gravitational field, which are often the result of shifting water, whether on the surface or deep beneath it.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).