Sentences with phrase «orbiter on»

The photo above was taken over Saturn's north pole by NASA's Cassini orbiter on November 27, 2012 from a distance of 376,171 kilometers (233,742 miles).

In the triptych at the top of the page, the image of Parana Valles on Mars was acquired by the Viking 1 orbiter on September 13, 1976.

The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003.

The lander successfully deployed from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter on Dec. 19 of that year, but no touchdown confirmation came, and most experts think Beagle 2 crashed on the Red Planet's surface.

This image, captured by the Cassini orbiter on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) and beamed to Earth on Dec. 26.

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.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — The Rosetta orbiter on Wednesday dropped a spidery, three - legged robot the size of a small refrigerator and watched as it tentatively set down on a comet — the first time that the surface of these primordial balls of dust and ice has ever been explored.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Lunar Orbiter 1 took this photo while scouting for places astronauts might land on the moon.

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.

Remember those dark streaks NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted running down canyons and hillsides on the red planet?

Choose the Swing - N - Slide Orbiter Complete Wooden Swing Set to give your children a fun, sturdy, and very safe swing set to enjoy playing on any time the weather is right!

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.

On Oct. 13, 2014 something very strange happened to the camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

«Camera on NASA's Lunar Orbiter survived 2014 meteoroid hit.»

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.

They combined data from LEND with lunar topography and illumination maps derived from LRO's LOLA instrument (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter), and temperature maps from LRO's Diviner instrument (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment) to discover the greater hydrogen abundance and associated surface conditions on PFS.

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.

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.

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

«Next - gen orbiters will rely on harnessing the sun's energy to accelerate ions, propelling the craft ``

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

On 18 May, an H - IIA rocket will carry IKAROS into space along with its main payload, Japan's new Venus orbiter (see «Venus orbiter to fly close to super-rotating wind»).

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.

This remarkable shot looks like it could've been taken by an approaching Shuttle Orbiter, but in fact was obtained using an 11 - inch telescope sitting right here on terra firma!

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).

The mission would include a lander spending 35 days on the moon's surface to sample and screen material for traces of life; an orbiter spending three months taking measurements to unravel the basic structure of the planet; and the orbiter crashing into the moon, gathering data on Europa's tenuous atmosphere on the way down.

After an initial reconnection between the orbiter and lander on 13 June, there were six more communications between Philae and Rosetta, of varying durations, in the subsequent 10 days.

While we humans have only set foot on the planet we sprang from and one solitary moon, we've constructed probes, orbiters, and rovers to saunter out into space and send back their reports.

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.

«Sometimes they'll happen and you'll have to be somewhere else on Earth to see them,» said Noah Petro, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Most [residents] of the continental United States will be able to see the whole thing.»

While space agencies are planning to send more orbiters to study Jupiter and its moons in the next decade, probes remain impractical because the gas planet has no solid surface to land on.

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).

NASA scientist Noah Petro sheds some light on the April 15, 2014, lunar eclipse that will leave the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in darkness for several hours.

For now, the second - highest priority mission on NASA's wish list is the Jupiter Europa Orbiter, which would survey the ice - covered moon Europa and the global ocean that seems to lie beneath its frozen surface.

With Benson he spent two years on a sequel of sorts, a lunar orbiter that used an ion engine, but the idea was passed over.

For about a minute, running on half a hair dryer's worth of power, the orbiter - cum - probe beamed direct measures of the planet's atmosphere, along with final probes of its gravity and magnetic field, to mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Examining the volcanic features within the caldera required high - resolution imaging, which the researchers obtained from the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Upon arrival in October, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will train its instruments on the Red Planet, in the hopes of resolving questions about the existence of methane gas, and whether it could hint at microbial life.

This research benefited from coordinated use of multiple instruments on Mars orbiters, plus the longevities at Mars now exceeding 11 years for MRO and 16 years for Odyssey.

NASA's fleet of Earth Observing System orbiters is on borrowed time due to a lack of planning and underfunding

A cross-section of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced - color view from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Mexico's Chicxulub crater, named for a tiny town nearby, looks strikingly similar to Schrödinger crater on the moon's far side, shown here in a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter gravity map.

The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has documented landslides and dust devils on the Martian surface.

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present - day Mars.

The facility monitors signals being beamed from the space program's star performers, including the Mars rover Curiosity, the Cassini orbiter exploring Saturn and its neighborhood, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, which follows Earth around the sun, collecting information on stars and galaxies.