Sentences with phrase «orbiter spotted»

That's why Mars was an early object of interest and why Saturn's moon Enceladus joined the list of possible life holders in 2006 when the Cassini orbiter spotted geysers at its south pole.

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

Orbiter spots solar particles penetrating deep into atmosphere of Mars sciencemag.org, Mon., Dec. 15, 2014

Not exact matches

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.

NASA's Cassini orbiter first spotted spectacular plumes at Enceladus's south pole in 2005, shortly after arriving at Saturn.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, sporting the latest in camera and radio technology, is capable of spotting objects only a few feet across.

During its five - plus months on the Red Planet, the robot verified the presence of ice water below the Martian surface (the Mars Odyssey orbiter first spotted water there in 2002).

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.

For Discovery's mission, NASA added tools to inspect the orbiter's heat shield in space, and this system is what first spotted the gap fillers.

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.

Cassini's radar identified atleast one probable volcano — a raised, circular feature — and the orbiter» sinfrared camera spotted a fan - shaped form spreading away from thevolcano, which might well be a hardened flow of that same mushysubsurface ice.

Mars Odyssey, an orbiting craft launched in 2001, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), sent into space four years later in 2005, paved the way for Phoenix by identifying a safe landing spot from orbit.

Mars Odyssey spotted vast tracts of water ice, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw «dry ice» snowflakes falling from clouds near the pole.

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 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment or HiRISE equipment to detect and capture the dark spot.

Dundas's team first spotted some of the new ice deposits a few years ago in images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

«A NOAA polar orbiter is nominally «sun synchronous,» meaning whenever it observes a particular spot on the earth at nadir, the local time on the earth is constant from year to year, usually being referenced to the crossing time over the equator [i.e., local equatorial crossing time (LECT)-RSB-.