Sentences with phrase «orbiting spacecraft»

She has seen the reflection of her fair face through the eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting spacecraft.

NASA sent Curiosity to Gale Crater because data from orbiting spacecraft suggested the site had a good chance of having once been wet.

Here we analyse the difference between the spectra of the outgoing longwave radiation of the Earth as measured by orbiting spacecraft in 1970 and 1997.

In contrast, Venus's thick clouds block most sensors on orbiting spacecraft, and those that venture too far below the cloud deck face sulfuric acid droplets, scalding temperatures, and crushing pressures.

It turns out that Mars orbiting spacecraft are no exception, with aging electronics that need new instructions to deal with worn out components after years of heavy use.

That is not a surprise, given the map of hydrogen (a stand - in for water) generated by an instrument on the Mars Odyssey orbiting spacecraft and the presence of small amounts of water in younger Martian meteorites, notes Harry McSween at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Ulysses, a solar - orbiting spacecraft launched in 1990, was finally retired a few weeks ago by NASA and the European Space Agency after nearly two decades of operation.

Because orbiting spacecraft gathered the data, the scientists were able to take the entire moon into account, not just the side that can be observed from Earth.

And while material spewing from the icy visitor probably won't trigger the colossal meteor showers on the Red Planet that some scientists predicted, dust and water vapor may still slam into Mars, briefly heating up its atmosphere and threatening orbiting spacecraft.

Most low - Earth - orbit spacecraft connect with and maintain communications with one or two NASA communications networks.

Russia has tested three satellites in recent years that may be able to intercept other orbiting spacecraft to eavesdrop on or physically sabotage them.

Although radar systems have been used in the past to provide high - resolution maps of Venus» surface, Venus Express is the first orbiting spacecraft to produce a map that hints at the chemical composition of the rocks.

The available knowledge of the characteristics of radiation environments at different planetary systems is based on in - situ and remote sensing measurements from flybys as well as orbiting spacecraft.

MIT's Millstone Hill Observatory's radar station in Westford, Massachusetts bounced radar signals off orbiting spacecraft for the 43 - meter to receive.

From a visual and technological standpoint, one could call it post-Gravity: Most of the film is set within a high - tech orbiting spacecraft, and director Daniel Espinosa (Safe House, Child 44) takes the weightlessness of the environment as inspiration, his camera floating constantly around the characters and down long passageways, pivoting upside down, catching majestic glimpses of the cosmos in the corner of the frame.

The National Satellite Data Centre, located north of the Arctic Circle in Sodankylä (67 ° 22 N, 26 ° 39 E) lies in an excellent location for receiving data from all polar orbiting spacecraft.

The strategy called for a series of robotic missions to perform three tasks: 1) identify likely sites from orbiting spacecraft to map surface mineralogy; 2) send landers to the best sites to locate aqueously deposited sedimentary rocks; and 3) mount surface missions to target and sample the most likely deposits at these sites and return them to Earth for in - depth laboratory study.

Though absent today, this ancient field is recorded in rocks retrieved from the moon's surface and in magnetized patches of crust spied by orbiting spacecraft.

Spectrometers on orbiting spacecraft and on the MER rovers Spirit and Opportunity have previously seen indications that small quantities of carbonates were present in martian soil, but spectroscopic analysis is often a bit of a guessing game.

Scientists quickly focused other telescopes on the event, including the X-ray telescope aboard NASA's Swift satellite, an orbiting spacecraft that scans the sky for bursts of extremely high energy.

Because the Earth is sandwiched between Saturn and the sun, we could never get such a view without the aid of the orbiting spacecraft.

Before they ever reach the stars, Manchester says, Sprites are more likely to first form three - dimensional antennas in deep space to monitor space weather that could threaten Earthly power - grids and orbiting spacecraft.

We chose 10 photos of the eclipse — captured by professionals, by amateurs and by one Earth - orbiting spacecraft — that represent the myriad views different people had of the same event.

Gas - filled balloons would tote rock samples and phonograph records up to the drone, which would record the findings and relay it to an orbiting spacecraft.

The period of greatest risk to orbiting spacecraft will start about 90 minutes after the closest approach of the comet's nucleus and will last about 20 minutes, when Mars will come closest to the center of the widening trail of dust flying from the nucleus.

His text begins at the centre of the Earth and travels to the most distant Galaxy, and his timescale stretches from the all - creating big bang to the present day, with its large powerful telescopes and orbiting spacecraft.

For an orbiting spacecraft, the trick is to get — and stay — on the right track.

In the meantime, about 50 students gather in a University of Alberta lab twice a week, preparing for the time when they'll actually communicate with the orbiting spacecraft.

When the seals reach the surface, the information is transmitted to an orbiting spacecraft.

For example, an orbiting spacecraft recently discovered the opening to a lunar cave.

Earth - orbiting spacecraft might seem the next obvious vantage point.

Orbiting spacecraft have dated the formation of these rocks to about 3.5 billion years ago.

Life could be visible from orbiting spacecraft, however, if it made a home in cracks in Europa's shell that connect the surface to the interior, Dyson said.

Head and his team examined high - resolution images of the crater and its gullies taken by orbiting spacecraft and found evidence of features that suggested glaciers once covered the crater floor about 10 million to 20 million years ago.

But extensive scans of Mars by NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers and orbiting spacecraft have yet to find liquid water on the red planet's surface.

This capability of leaving an orbiting spacecraft alone & on automatic, and have a landing party rendezvous with it again in its parking orbit, from another planet, has also NEVER been tried before on an actual deep space mission.

Earlier today STS - 135, the Space Shuttle Atlantis, touched down for the last time and ended an era that began in 1972 when President Nixon signed off on the development of reusable, orbiting spacecraft.

NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars - orbiting spacecraft from damage by the cosmic visitor.

Not all Mars - orbiting spacecraft have flown American flags over the years, of course.

Gemini 8 mission was launched on March 16, 1966 and achieved the first docking of two orbiting spacecraft.

Images taken by NASA's orbiting spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal what appears to be the graveyard of the missing European Mars lander.

Observations from orbiting spacecraft have indicated that these dunes are migrating as much as 3 feet (1 meter) per Earth year.

The LRO Project ultimately elected not to fly EPOC, due to schedule constraints with spacecraft accommodations, but in 2009 a major aerospace firm purchased this camera (renamed Camera Monitoring Assembly (CMA)-RRB- for use on a classified Earth - orbiting spacecraft.

The authors suggest that impacts and volcanism are behind the distribution of the clay exposures that can be observed by orbiting spacecraft.

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth By Col. Chris Hadfield Back Bay • $ 17 • ISBN 9780316253031 Best known to many for his entertaining YouTube videos (including a haunting David Bowie cover recorded in space), the first Canadian to command the International Space Station offers an inside look at what really goes on in an orbiting spacecraft.

Janssen, M.A., M.D. Hofstadter, S. Gulkis, A.P. Ingersoll, M. Allison, S.J. Bolton, S.M. Levin, and L.A. Kamp, 2005: Microwave remote sensing of Jupiter's atmosphere from an orbiting spacecraft.

This low - orbiting spacecraft is the first mission to employ the concept of gradiometry - the measurement of acceleration differences over short distances between an ensemble of proof masses inside the satellite.

JPL would also be responsible for receiving and transmitting the orbiting spacecraft's communications.