Sentences with phrase «of spacecraft data»

I do this as a caution to you — I've seen some of the surprises that have come out of the spacecraft data — and some of them have been BIG surprises.

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Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed planet and provided streams of data about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and icy satellites.

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

That analysis was based on data gathered by the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument aboard the LRO spacecraft.

The latest study uses a new calibration of data taken from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which flew aboard India's Chandrayaan - 1 spacecraft, to quantify how much water is present on a global scale.

Even though the spacecraft is gone, it left decades» worth of data to sift through in search of answers.

While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of data about Saturn — the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons — will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.

Even though the spacecraft is gone, scientists are still learning from its 13 years» worth of data.

DEEP VIEW This movie was made using three days of data from NASA's STEREO spacecraft, which blocked out the sun (center) to see the outer corona better.

After five years of searching, researchers using data from NASA's exoplanet - hunting Kepler spacecraft have discovered what look to be two of the most Earth - like worlds yet.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

Scientists have found the first direct evidence for explosive releases of energy in Saturn's magnetic bubble using data from the Cassini spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency.

Because of the possible lessons it could provide here on Earth, NASA has been studying Saturn and its moons for more than a decade with data collected from the Cassini spacecraft.

This case is bolstered by data from the last mission to make such measurements — the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which swooped by Titan in 1980 during solar maximum conditions and found similarly depleted levels of methane.

Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, principal investigator for radar instruments on both spacecraft, says «we will soon have an abundance of data.»

Iain Coleman works for the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, where he uses data from spacecraft and radar networks to find out more about the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere.

As the $ 3 billion Cassini spacecraft orbits Saturn, it is broadcasting a stream of images and other data to Earth, some 850 million miles away, that show a ring architecture even more convoluted than expected.

Bowman said the spacecraft is currently taking science data as well as optical navigation data, which is «very important because it is a measure of how well we are doing on that trajectory to hit that specific point at the specific time that the science team wants us to hit.

Maps of the moon generated from gravity data gathered by the GRAIL spacecraft include three previously undiscovered lunar basins, Bartels - Voskresenskiy, Copernicus - H and Asperitatis.

Armed with a deeper understanding of Kepler's quirks, the astronomers argue they can more easily flag where and how the spacecraft's minor defects could compromise data.

Centre analysts have begun testing the inclusion of sea - ice data from a Japanese satellite, but that spacecraft — designed to last five years — is now five years old.

Analysis of data from the spacecraft once communication was restored at 10:29, showed that from around 8:51, the craft had been disturbed and started spinning.

«This work tells us the chemical signature of radiation - baked sodium chloride is a compelling match to spacecraft data for Europa's mystery material,» Hand said.

Data from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit since 2004, may help resolve a decades - long debate over the age of...

Scientists have monitored the progression of the rift throughout the last year was using data from the European Space Agency Sentinel - 1 satellites and thermal imagery from NASA's Landsat 8 spacecraft.

SIMILARLY SIZED Data collected by the Kepler spacecraft, shown in this artist's rendering, indicate that the Milky Way is home to billions of potentially habitable Earth - sized planets.

It is a place human explorers will not visit in the foreseeable future, although the data on the flux of cosmic rays (energetic particles from deep space) into the solar system will allow engineers to better gauge the risk to both spacecraft and humans during extended space voyages.

A TALE OF NO TAIL Data from the Voyager and Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the bubble of particles surrounding the solar system, is spherical, not comet - shapeOF NO TAIL Data from the Voyager and Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the bubble of particles surrounding the solar system, is spherical, not comet - shapeof particles surrounding the solar system, is spherical, not comet - shaped.

In May, Drake Deming of NASA was collecting data he hoped might reveal a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a red dwarf (a small and relatively cool star) called Gliese 436; NASA had allowed him to use a spacecraft called Epoxi, which is on its way to a rendezvous with a comet, to observe several stars that are already known to have planets.

The Cassini team will use data collected by one of the spacecraft's science instruments (the Radio and Plasma Wave Subsystem, or RPWS) to ascertain the size and density of ring particles in the gap in advance of future dives.

Data from the first pass of NASA's Juno spacecraft over the incessant storm show that its clouds stretch at least 350 kilometers down into the planet's atmosphere.

A paper in this week's Science, using 10 days of early data gathered by Kepler, demonstrates the spacecraft's ability to spot large planets and provides encouragement that Earth - size bodies are within its reach.

During more than 6 years of touring Jupiter and its four largest moons, the spacecraft managed to radio some 5 gigabytes of data to Earth, including more than 14,000 images.

This illustration shows how the researchers used data from NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft to determine the nucleus sizes of several of these distant comets.

The Juno spacecraft, launched Aug. 5, 2011, has blankets coated with germanium, a metalized material that conducts electricity; and Kapton, a high - temperature plastic film, to ensure that the surface of the blankets reflects sunlight and remains grounded while the probe gathers data from the highly charged environment around Jupiter.

Johnson and his colleagues used data from the exoplanet - hunting Kepler spacecraft to analyse the composition of stars known to have planets.

But because of the great distances and the spacecraft's low - power antenna, some of the best data are reaching Earth only now.

Six months after the spacecraft runs out of coolant for its instruments, a preliminary data set should be released to astronomers.

All of Juno's science instruments and the spacecraft's JunoCam were operating during the flyby, collecting data that are now being returned to Earth.

The chemical fingerprints of a long - vanished ocean on Mars may have been found in data from the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft, boosting hopes that the planet could once have supported life.

The data will also play a role in the development of the next generation of standards and models used by the satellite community for building and shielding their spacecraft.

Standish used data from the Voyager spacecraft, which determined the masses of the giant planets as it flew past.

However, none of these are designed to provide 24/7 data, necessary for accurate and timely forecasts and all the spacecraft are ageing rapidly, with some of them having spent more than two decades in space.

Data from NASA's now - defunct Galileo spacecraft suggest that three of Jupiter's giant moons — Callisto, Ganymede, and especially Europa — could support life tens or hundreds of miles under their surfaces.

They also use measurements of the CMB, this time taken with the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft, which collected data from 2009 to 2013 and provided far more precise CMB maps than WMAP.

Since 2011, through NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative, 40 small spacecraft have already launched from rockets and produced years» worth of data, while teaching students the basics of space technology.

Maria Zuber Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Science, MIT Using laser ranging, gravity measurements, and data from spacecraft, Zuber maps surface features and probes the interior of Mars, Venus, Jupiter's moons, and our own moon.

A joint analysis of data recorded by the team's BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole and by the European spacecraft Planck has revealed that the signal can be entirely attributed to dust in the Milky Way rather than having a more ancient, cosmic origin.

Data collected in space, like video transmission of a spacewalk, travel as radio signals from antennas on spacecraft to much larger antennas on Earth, some with diameters up to 230 feet.

With eruptions of ice and water vapor, and an ocean covered by an ice shell, Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the most fascinating in the Solar System, especially as interpretations of data provided by the Cassini spacecraft have been contradictory until now.