Sentences with phrase «orbiter show»

Infrared images from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter show how the dust storm is blocking sunlight to the planet's surface.

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

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.

Data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan - 1 lunar orbiter shows a diverse mineralogy in the subsurface of the giant South Pole Aitken basin.

In May 2010, two teams of scientists announced that NASA's Cassini orbiter showed Titan is harboring an unusual chemical dance party with hydrogen and acetylene.

IMAGE: A false color image from the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows amazing diversity of rocks exhumed from the Martian subsurface a meteor impact in the Nili Fossae... view more

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.

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.

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).

Using the Shallow Radar instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Holt was able to peek beneath the ice's surface for clues; in particular, the radar could pick out differences in electrical reflectivity between overlying layers, showing how the ice built up over time.

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.

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.

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.

«Mars Orbiter's spectrometer shows Oort comet's coma.»

Imagery released on 21 October from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the bright, reflective surface of a parachute, and 1 kilometer north of it, a dark patch on the ground where before there had been nothing.

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.

This oblique image taken by the Viking orbiter spacecraft shows a thin band of the Martian atmosphere.

(Copyright 1998 by Calvin J. Hamilton) Martian Atmosphere This oblique image taken by the Viking orbiter spacecraft shows a thin band of the Martian atmosphere.

This photo, taken in August by the Cassini orbiter, shows Saturn, Janus and Mimas as well as the planet's distinctive rings.

Working with data returned by NASA's Cassini Orbiter spacecraft, Benson has created a series of works showing Saturn and its extraordinary ring system.

This composite of 7.5 km (4.7 mi) per pixel daily global images, acquired by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), shows water ice clouds over and to the east (right) of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER - B), Opportunity, landing site in Meridiani Planum.

Color - coded topographical map of Mars showing the swathe of landscape captured by ESA's Mars Express orbiter

Color - coded topographical map of Mars showing the swathe of landscape captured by ESA's Mars Express orbiter (Credit: ESA)

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Mars Color Imager (MARCI), shown here with a gloved hand for scale, is currently orbiting Mars and taking pictures used to monitor the weather by observing the entire planet every day at 5 visible and 2 ultraviolet wavelengths.

Image from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing deposits of impact glass (green) in Alga Crater.

The latest image from the Mars Express orbiter, just released by the European Space Agency, was taken on the 19th June, 2017 and shows a rare upside - down, wide - angle view of Mars with its icy northern polar cap at the bottom.

The left image is a portion of Viking Orbiter 1 frame 070A13, the middle image is a portion of MOC frame shown normally, and the right image is the same MOC frame but with the brightness inverted to simulate the approximate lighting conditions of the Viking image.

In the first episode of a new JPL video series, we celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Opportunity rover, show you a recent panoramic view from the Curiosity rover, look at ice deposits spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and check out the latest test on the InSight lander, heading to the Red Planet in May 2018.

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

This animation shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying over NASA's Curiosity (shown in pink) as the rover lands on the Red Planet.

This animation shows how NASA's Curiosity rover communicates with Earth via two of NASA's Mars orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Odyssey, and the European Space Agency's Mars Express.

The first picture shown here is a color composite of four MGS Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) wide angle images; the second is the same as the first, but indicates the location of Phobos.

Views from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released Friday show the crash site where Europe's experimental Schiaparelli lander fell to the red planet's surface from a height of several miles, leaving a distinct dark patch on the Martian landscape.

The image, snapped using the orbiter's HiRise camera, shows several RSLs that appear as dark lines extending downslope.