Sentences with phrase «probe on a comet»

If the landing is successful, it will be the first time scientists have landed a probe on a comet, and it will be the completion of a mission that began 10 years ago when the Rosetta spacecraft launched.

Even more amazing, it plans to land a probe on a comet.

ISON will improve our picture of the early solar system, and might aid the first landing of a probe on a comet.

An encounter with Klim Churyumov 11 November 2016 Two years ago this week, the entire world was getting ready for a historic endeavour in space: the first soft landing of a human - made probe on a comet.

The first - ever landing of a probe on a comet encountered some unexpected turbulence Wednesday when the probe's harpoons failed to fire in order to anchor it to the surface.

NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage from 6 - 8:30 a.m. PST (9 - 11:30 a.m. EST) of the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission's scheduled landing of a probe on a comet on Wednesday, Nov. 12.

Perhaps the biggest stone of all with all of the kilometers or miles behind it was the first ever landing of a probe on a comet hundreds of millions of kilometers away.

Not exact matches

On 30 September, the European Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space rocOn 30 September, the European Space Agency probe landed on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space rocon comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, in a spectacular finish to its two years spent in orbit around the space rock.

Combining high resolution images and infrared spectra collected during the probe's approach, a team of nearly two dozen scientists pinpointed three patches of water ice on the surface of the comet's «upper» half.

Second Life: Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory restarted the probe's thrusters in November 2007, sending it on a new mission to survey comet Hartley 2.

By 2015, other research teams had announced that the «Hypatia» stone was not part of any known types of meteorite or comet, based on noble gas and nuclear probe analyses.

They still don't know exactly where the probe is on the comet's surface, but Holger Sierks, who is in charge of the OSIRIS camera on Rosetta, said they should have a picture of Philae's 1 kilometre - high bounce after landing, which will help pinpoint its final resting spot.

Meanwhile, the camera OSIRIS on board the Rosetta comet probe is revealing new details of the surface of Chury.

The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the comet on Wednesday, 12 November, has not moved from its landing spot and so its solar panels are not getting enough sunlight.

NASA and the European Space Agency have launched probes that will visit comets, narrowing down the possible ingredients that might have been showered on early Earth.

The J landing spot, on the «head» of the comet, was chosen for having the smoothest surface, but that doesn't mean Rosetta's lander probe, Philae, will touch down without incident.

Planetary scientist H. Jay Melosh is of course correct that the Deep Impact probe will have a negligibly small effect on comet Tempel I's orbit [«Impact Geologist Waits for the Big One to Hit,» Discover Dialogue, July].

The launch of the European space probe Rosetta, which must occur before the end of January in order to touch down on the comet, has now been postponed indefinitely.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — On Wednesday, 12 November, the Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe is set to attempt an historic landing on a comet, known as 67P / Churyumov - GerasimenkOn Wednesday, 12 November, the Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe is set to attempt an historic landing on a comet, known as 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenkon a comet, known as 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

Meanwhile, the Rosetta probe orbiting the comet has been busy, revealing a striking array of surface features on Churyumov - Gerasimenko's two - lobed nucleus.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — After the Philae probe bounced its way to a tenuous, unanchored perch on a comet — a bittersweet victory for the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Rosetta mission — Fred Jansen cried in the control room.

They will have to figure out what publicity strategy to adopt during the year - long orbital phase, especially in November, when Philae, a probe piggybacking on Rosetta, will attempt to land on the comet.

ScienceCasts: How to Land on a Comet 05 November 2014 The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is about to attempt something «ridiculously difficult» - landing a probe on the surface of a speeding comet.

Operating on a makeshift navigation system and performing an extra mission assigned on the fly, NASA's Deep Space 1 probe (DS1) has executed a stunning rendezvous with a comet.

On 12 November, the mission deployed its Philae probe to the comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat was achieved.

ScienceCasts: Rosetta Comet Comes Alive 04 June 2014 Later this year, Europe's Rosetta probe will orbit and land on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

The soft landing of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said Science's deputy news editor Robert Coontz.

Ingredients regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth have been discovered at the comet that ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has been probing for almost two years.

The soft landing of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said

In 2014, the world looked on eagerly as a probe landed on a comet for the first time, as a test flight brought humans one step closer to Mars, and as astronauts tweeted home striking images from space, giving those left behind on Earth the sense that they were along for the ride.

After a dramatic, one - in - a-million-years close encounter between Mars and comet Siding Spring on Sunday, all five functioning US Mars probes survived and are reportedly healthy.

After a dramatic, one - in - a-million-years close encounter between Mars and comet Siding Spring on Sunday, all five functioning US Mars probes survived, and are returning valuable data on the comet.

ESA's Rosetta probe is preparing to make a close encounter with its comet on 14 February, passing just 6 km from the surface.

Emily shares highlights from last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, and Alan Stern provides updates on the Rosetta comet mission and his New Horizons probe that is nearing Pluto, and addresses the controversy around Uwingu's Name a Martian Crater project.