Sentences with phrase «orbiters saw»

The Viking orbiters saw dust devils in the mid-1970s, but researchers weren't sure how much dust they threw into the atmosphere.

Around the south pole of Enceladus — a 500 - kilometer - wide runt of a moon many expected to be rather inert and uninteresting — the orbiter saw tantalizing signs of activity — plumes of water vapor venting into space from fissures in the icy surface.

At the moment, Kaiser says, the trailing STEREO orbiter sees areas of the sun that will be visible from Earth in about three days, but in two years» time the twin spacecraft will be separated by 180 degrees, allowing simultaneous observation of the entire sun for the first time.

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

Not exact matches

NASA would also like to see orbiters that can return to Earth with Martian samples sent up by capsule from a planned rover.

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»).

«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.»

Eratosthenes, a 37 - mile - wide crater blasted into a plain of frozen lava, is seen here from the Apollo 17 orbiter in 1972.

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).

The orbiter will search for clues to when and why the planet went from a warm, wet world to the cold, dry desert we see today.

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.

When the orbiter had the Sun behind it, it looked straight down at the Venusian clouds and saw the characteristic bull's - eye pattern, about 1,200 kilometers across.

Similar structures had not been seen on Arabia Terra until the team analysed high resolution imagery from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft.

Water exists in abundance on Mars — as ice seen at the poles by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and frozen into the Martian soil.

Phobos, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / University of Arizona)

Edgett told SPACE.com that the gully changes seen by MGS may be the first of many to be found by Mars - watching orbiters.

The India Space Research Organisation, ISRO, is preparing for the launch of its Mars Orbiter Mission by November 2013, which will see the Mangalyaan Mars probe lift off from ISRO's launch site at Sriharikota, on the east coast of the India mainland.

The final photos taken by NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter have begun coming down to Earth, and you can see them all.

The solar event on Sept. 11, 2017 sparked a global aurora at Mars more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by the MAVEN orbiter, which has been studying the Martian atmosphere's interaction with the solar wind since 2014.

According to observations made by NASA and ESA orbiters, the extremely close flyby of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring was accompanied by a meteor shower larger than any seen on Earth.

Though there was never any danger of Siding Spring colliding with Mars or any of the orbiters, its tail contained gas and fine dust particles that, when they hit the Martian atmosphere and vaporized, caused what was probably a spectacular meteor shower, though one that no one could see except for the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers.

The first, known as Solar Orbiter, will see a spacecraft operating closer to the Sun than any previous mission with a particular focus on examining the solar wind.

The Trace Gas Orbiter has reached its final orbit after a year of «aerobraking» that ended in February.This exciting operation saw the craft skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, using drag on its solar wings to transform its initial highly elliptical four - day orbit of about 200 x 98 000 km into the final, much lower and near - circular path at about 400 km.

While Curiosity will not be able to see MAVEN as it arrives at Mars, the rover welcomes the orbiter's discoveries.