Sentences with phrase «orbiter imaged»

The Cassini orbiter imaged Alpha Centauri A and B over the horizon of Saturn on May 17, 2008 (more).

After training on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images covering about one - third of the moon's surface, the program was shown another third of the lunar landscape.

In 1976 the Viking orbiters imaged a formation resembling a human visage; many people believed the Mars «face» was created by intelligent beings even after newer pictures exposed the hill as an eroded pile of rocks.

But this never came to pass when NASA chose to share its Mars rover and Cassini orbiter images.

Lava tubes and related flow structures were first recognized upon examination of Viking orbiter images, and later identified using orbiter imagery from Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Not exact matches

New images beamed down from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact scars from the two tungsten counter-weights and the cruise stage, which broke apart and landed about 50 miles from where Curiosity hunkered down at its landing site, later named Bradbury Landing, in Gale Crater on Aug. 5.

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 January this year, it was announced that the lander had been identified in images taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2013; these showed the lander as a glinting object, just a few pixels wide, about 5 km from the intended touchdown site.

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

The comet lander, lost since its tumultuous touch down on the comet on November 12, 2014, turned up in images taken by the Rosetta orbiter on September 2.

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

The comet lander, lost since its tumultuous touchdown on the comet on November 12, 2014, turned up in images taken by the Rosetta orbiter on September 2.

Glaze's probe would also have imaged mysterious highlands, or tessera, mapped in detail by radar on NASA's Magellan orbiter in the 1990s.

Now images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal 14 more, all over the moon's surface.

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In this case, he was looking at infrared images taken during the Martian nighttime by the THEMIS instrument, which flies aboard the Mars Odyssey orbiter.

Far side of the moon: this is a composite image of the lunar farside taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009, note the absence of dark areas.

Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).

In this view, one of several images of Melas Chasma released today, a computer has reconstructed 3D images taken with the European Mars Express orbiter's High - Resolution Stereo Camera.

He included links to images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (the most advanced Mars orbiter at the time), showing vistas that really did resemble thick stands of giant trees.

They are overlaid on a visible - light image of Ganymede taken by NASA's Galileo orbiter.

«Our well - calibrated UV images will act as a pathfinder for mapping by NASA's 2008 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,» says Garvin.

This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an example of a type called «linear gullies.»

Meanwhile, the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter captured complementary images from orbit.

Radar data helped locate an approximate position for its final resting spot — somewhere just within the rim of the large crater on the head of the duck - shaped comet, what was once known as landing site «B.» Holger Sierks, principal investigator for the orbiter's camera, was waiting for images to be downloaded to Earth tonight that he thought would contain the lander.

The color image taken July 8, 2013, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter catches Opportunity crossing relatively level ground called «Botany Bay» on its way to a rise called «Solander Point.»

The company has already engineered much of the software it needs to stitch the massive number of images collected by its orbiters into a single texture applied to a topographic model of Earth.

Named Juno, the NASA orbiter will collect data that could elucidate the planet's origins and evolution, gather details about its long - lived storm (the Great Red Spot) and send back the highest - resolution color images of Jupiter to date.

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed new software that compares images from the high - resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with ground panoramas taken by the rovers to map features on the Martian surface.

This image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on July 8, 2013, captures Opportunity traversing south (at the end of the white arrow) to new science targets and a winter haven at «Solander Point,» another portion of the Endeavour rim.

A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, compares high - resolution images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with surface video taken by the Mars Rover Spirit, which is stuck in the Gusev crater.

New images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show water - associated opaline silica (dark areas) scattered across the planet's surface.

«HiRISE gives us 0.3 - meter [one - foot] resolution on the ground, so we can combine those orbital images with ground images to identify rocks from the orbiter and the ground,» Ron Li, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, explained at a recent American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

Now, images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter tell the tale.

Test satellites launched in April and November demonstrated that the company's engineers can accurately position the orbiters and capture a continuous stream of images with a resolution of three to five meters — fine enough to distinguish individual trees in a rainforest, but not sharp enough to identify a person tending his garden.

The evidence comes from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which captured images of thin, dark streaks — quite likely soil — creeping down several slopes during Mars's spring and summer (see sequence at right).

Targeted images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the Red Planet since 2006, provided detailed imagery of the potential landing sites that enabled scientists and engineers to evaluate safety concerns and the scientific benefits of each candidate location.

Before - and - after images of the region taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will provide data that will allow researchers to estimate the strength and cohesiveness of surface rocks at the impact sites.

New images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) reveal that the kiddie - pool - sized spacecraft — meant to softly touch down and then send signals home on October 19 — was instead destroyed when it crashed into the surface.

So Neel sized up four rock glaciers in Colorado and compared them to one of the martian debris flows imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.

The daily image downloads from the Mars rover Opportunity — yes, it's still driving around the Red Planet after more than seven years — and the Saturn orbiter Cassini have been so warmly welcomed that missions with less open policies, such as NASA's current Mercury and Vesta orbiters, let alone the European Space Agency's Venus and Mars orbiters, are often subject to harsh criticism.

The orbiter and Mars were 41 million kilometres apart on 13 June when the new image was taken.

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.

MISSION TO MARS By the 2030s, NASA and the aerospace industry want to send a crew to explore Mars, seen in this simulated image based on data from the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter.

On Thursday, Holger Sierks, the principal investigator for the Rosetta orbiter's main science camera, had hoped to find the lander in an image about 1 kilometer away from the target site.

And it was criticised for sitting on stunning images taken by the Mars Express orbiter in 2004.

CRATER CRAZE Images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 2009 to 2015 revealed 222 new impact craters (in yellow) on the moon.

NASA today announced that the orbiter had photographed all the Apollo landing sites other than Apollo 12, a destination that should be imaged in the next few weeks.

The images used in the discovery come from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

A high - resolution image from the CTX camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is draped over topography data to create a bird's - eye view of martian gullies, features thought to represent relatively recent flow of water on the surface of Mars.