Sentences with phrase «orbiting around a data»

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Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

With hundreds of satellites operating in orbit around Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, it's easy to imagine that communication channels might become overwhelmed with data from the satellites.

Gathering that data is the mission of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, a 4,800 - pound probe now in elliptical orbit around the Red Planet.

The findings from Akatsuki, in an equatorial orbit, were expected to complement data coming from the European Space Agency's Venus Express, which has been in a polar orbit around the planet since April 2006.

Barman took a second look at Hubble Space Telescope data collected by Harvard astronomers, who measured the light coming from HD 209458 b as it reached the widest part of its 3.5 - day orbit around its star.

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 (OCO - 2) mission was launched in July 2014 and has been consistently gathering data on patterns of carbon exchange between the land and the atmosphere around the globe over the course of 16 - day cycles, collecting roughly 2 million measurements each month.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

They used data from MESSENGER's cameras and spectrometers collected after the spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury in 2011.

Comparing that data with orbit calculations from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft suggested that the blip could be another object around MU69.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft hasn't reached optimum orbit around Ceres but the data it's returning has already got scientists excited.

The 3D model was created from data harvested by the agency's Dawn spacecraft over the course of its year - long stay in orbit around the asteroid between July 2011 and September 2012.

The VLA data were used to track the orbit of the smaller Southern star around the larger Southern object, presumed to be a pair of stars orbiting each other closely.

By combining observational data from OGLE and Hubble, astronomers have been able to work out the nature of the star system, which is located around 8,000 light - years away, to great precision The star system consists of two red dwarfs orbiting one another only 7 million miles apart (as a comparison, this is only 14 times the Earth - moon distance).

Although the spacecraft could beam its data stream to spacecraft already in orbit around Mars, the GBT's 2.3 - acre dish easily grabbed that signal from tens of millions of miles away.

G2 makes an unusual, 300 - year elliptical orbit around the black hole and Ghez's group calculated its closest approach occurred this summer — later than other astronomers believed — and they were in place at Keck Observatory to gather the data.

De Kleer timed her Gemini and IRTF observations to coincide with observations of the plasma torus by the Japanese HISAKI (SPRINT - A) spacecraft, which is in orbit around Earth, so she can correlate the different data sets.

Its orbit around Errai A is eccentric (e ~ 0.19, derived from data by Deutsche Astronomische Gesellschaft and Klaus Fuhrmann) and takes 2.47 years to complete.

«There's a tantalizing incentive: it's possible that some potentially habitable planets like Earth, which are relatively small and orbit around relatively dim stars, might be hiding just below the traditional detection threshold — there might be hidden gems still undiscovered in the Kepler data!»

The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe continues to image and study the surface of the Red Planet and gather data about the Martian atmosphere today, nearly 10 years after arriving in orbit around Mars.

The LRO was launched and began acquiring data from orbit around the Moon in 2009.

Kepler 10b was detected using the transit method from more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft between May 2009 and early January 2010 and confirmed by radial velocity measurements, and there evidence for another planet (KOI 72.02) in an outer orbit with a period around 45.3 days (Kepler news release; images, animations, and discovery page; and Batalha et al, 2011).

Previously discussed in a November 24, 2011 pre-print, the astronomers «surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarf stars in the southern skies over a six - year period» and found a «total of nine super-Earths (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth),» of which two orbiting within the habitable zones of Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C. By combining all the radial - velocity data of red dwarf stars (including those without undetected planets) and examining the fraction of confirmed planets that was found, the astronomers were able to estimate the probable distribution of different types of planets around red dwarfs: for example, only 12 percent of such stars within 30 light - years may have giant planets with masses between 100 and 1,000 times that of the Earth (ESO news release; Bonfils et al, 2011; and Delfosse et al, 2011).

Larger sails can thrust against Earth's gravity and not even be in orbit around the Earth, and a pole sitter could sit continuously over Earth's poles and can provide continuous data on the polar ice caps.

But while space enthusiasts wait for data and images to start pouring out — Juno's principal investigator, Scott Bolton, said all images shot by the «Juno Cam» will be released to the public — NASA has published a time - lapse video of the Galilean moons orbiting around Jupiter.

Triton is a moon in a close retrograde orbit, data is very sparse, its «year» around Neptune is short, but Neptune's orbital period is longer than we have known about Triton, so again no data on long term secular trends.

The report, featuring input from more than 400 climate scientists working in 58 countries around the globe, includes updates on worldwide climate indicators, significant weather events and data gathered by monitoring instruments and stations on land, sea, ice and from orbit in space.

We got a full seven days out of it in our initial use, but the more we played around with it and found new functions that put the battery to more use, 5 to 6 days became the standard, though the Orbit keeps a running tally of the last 7 days and overwrites the oldest data as it goes.