Sentences with phrase «orbiting observatory»

However, evidence exists from the rocks studied by NASA's rovers, including the Mars Curiosity Rover, as well as images of dry river beds made by orbiting observatories such as NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, that the Martian atmosphere 3.5 billion years ago was denser and warmer due the Greenhouse effect and supported the presence of liquid water at the surface.

In a move that shocked astronomers, the administration has proposed killing the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, its next big orbiting observatory, which is designed investigate the nature of dark energy and study exoplanets.

A new find from NASA's Kepler orbiting observatory is the first Earth - sized planet to be detected in the habitable zone of a star

In later years, Schmidt joined teams discovering x-ray and gamma ray sources from orbiting observatories such as the Roentgen satellite (ROSAT) and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and obtained their optical spectra at the Keck Observatory.

With observation time on the few active orbiting observatories at a premium, an effective ground - based approach would allow exoplanet characterization to proceed more quickly, and on larger telescopes, to boot.

By TED TURVER Two years ago the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the second of NASA's four planned orbiting observatories, was launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.

A complete survey of the sky at infrared wavelengths made during the early 1980s by an unmanned orbiting observatory, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), revealed a large number of dense dust clouds in the Milky Way.

It is the second of four in a NASA series of large orbiting observatories, observing in the visible light, together with the Compton Gamma Ray Telescope (CGRO) observing in Gamma - ray light, the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) observing in Infrared.

NASA launched a series of eight orbiting observatories known as the Orbiting Solar Observatory between 1962 and 1971.

Launched on Jan. 25, 1983, the Earth - orbiting observatory mapped the sky for 10 months at infrared wavelengths above the interference of Earth's atmosphere.

NASA will have to scale back its next big orbiting observatory to avoid busting its budget and affecting other missions, an independent panel says.

Now, sifting through data collected by NASA's Kepler orbiting observatory, they have discovered just such a planet, although it's not quite Earth 2.0.

In the past few years, space probes, improved ground - based telescopes, and orbiting observatories have shown us close - up pictures of hundreds of objects in our solar system.

The Wide - Field Infrared Explorer, an orbiting observatory, was unable to fulfil its primary scientific mission after the hydrogen needed to cool its sensors leaked away into space in March.

Not so much an orbiting observatory as just a very high one, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is being built into a Boeing 747.

Gamma - Ray Large Area Space Telescope What: An orbiting observatory 50 times as sensitive as any existing gamma - ray telescope.

A report published today by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C., lays out the rationale for another orbiting observatory.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.

With the Hubble Space Telescope's sharpest camera no longer working and its repair uncertain, the spotlight falls on the orbiting observatory's successor.

Rather than studying bright stars, the two students used Hubble Space Telescope data from 274 dwarf stars, which were serendipitously observed by the orbiting observatory while it was looking for the most distant galaxies in the early Universe.

The particles finally strike a so - called calorimeter, a device made of cesium iodide that measures the energy of the ray captured by the orbiting observatory.

Astronomers gathered there April 20 — 23 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the orbiting observatory, which rocketed into space April 24, 1990, and to look ahead to what the telescope can accomplish in its remaining years (SN: 4/18/15, p. 18).

In Part A of the two - part Third Servicing Mission, astronauts replaced the telescope's six gyroscopes, which help the orbiting observatory point at celestial...

NASA has released these stunning Hubble Space Telescope images in celebration of the Earth - orbiting observatory's 28th anniversary.

In Part A of the two - part Third Servicing Mission, astronauts replaced the telescope's six gyroscopes, which help the orbiting observatory point at celestial objects.

About the Telescope The Webb telescope is NASA's next orbiting observatory and the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Light from the young galaxy captured by the orbiting observatories was emitted when our 13.7 - billion - year - old universe was just 500 million years old.

This new satellite, revealed a minute speck of light in an image from the orbiting observatory, is thought to be no more than 10 - 25 km wide, and to have an irregular shape like an asteroid.

It's much too faint to be picked up by the orbiting observatory, so the image had to be magnified first.

Though the May 2009 visit to Hubble by astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis was the last scheduled servicing mission for the orbiting observatory (which is expected to remain in orbit until at least 2014), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has already collected galaxies of data from it.