Sentences with phrase «resolution images of the planet»

«The first high - resolution images of the planet will be taken on August 27 when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter.»

To validate candidate planets identified by K2, the researchers obtained high - resolution images of the planet - hosting stars from Keck Observatory's near infrared camera (NIRC2), the Gemini and Large Binocular Telescope (among others) as well as high - resolution optical spectroscopy using Keck Observatory's high resolution spectrograph (HIRES) instrument and the AUtomated Planet Finder.

To validate candidate planets identified by K2, the researchers obtained high - resolution images of the planet - hosting stars as well as high - resolution optical spectroscopy data.

Directed by Stephen van Vuuren and narrated by LeVar Burton of Star Trek fame, In Saturn's Rings is a large - format look at NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn, made using over 7.5 million real high - resolution images of the planet, its moons, and other astronomical objects, carefully assembled and presented using classical multi-plane animation techniques.

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Eighty - eight of those small satellites were the property of Planet; with these eyes on the sky, along with the 50 they already had in orbit, the company promises its customers high - resolution images of the Earth for everything from crop yield monitoring to aiding first responders with real - time images of natural disasters.

«The images now are just at that intriguing resolution that lets you make stuff up,» says Mike Brown, the California Institute of Technology astronomer whose work helped motivate the reclassification of Pluto and Ceres as dwarf planets.

Named Juno, the NASA orbiter will collect data that could elucidate the planet's origins and evolution, gather details about its long - lived storm (the Great Red Spot) and send back the highest - resolution color images of Jupiter to date.

Ever since the New Horizons probe buzzed Pluto in July 2015, scientists have been poring over the slow trickle of high - resolution images and data to mine the dwarf planet's secrets.

Stunning new images and the highest - resolution maps to date of Jupiter at thermal infrared wavelengths give a glowing view of Juno's target, a week ahead of the NASA mission's arrival at the giant planet.

This camera, called Junocam, is designed to take hundreds of color images of the giant planet, some at resolutions never before seen, as the spacecraft orbits Jupiter, coming within 5000 km of the gas giant's cloudtops (see Figure 1a and b).

Some of the science Cassini performed during this period included creating maps of the planet's gravity and magnetic fields, estimating how much material is in the rings, and taking high - resolution images of Saturn and its rings from close - up.

The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule in space.

CTX images Mars at 6 m per pixel resolution, and has already mapped more than one third of the planet at that resolution.

«With MESSENGER, we have now obtained images of the entire planet at high resolution and, crucially, at different angles to the sun that show features Mariner 10 could not in the 1970s,» Steven A. Hauck, II, a professor of planetary sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the study's co-author, said in a statement.

CTX images Mars at 6 m per pixel resolution, and has already mapped more than two thirds of the planet at that resolution.

Junocam is designed to take hundreds of color images of the giant planet, some at resolutions never before seen, as the spacecraft orbits Jupiter, coming within 5000 km of the gas giant's cloudtops.

Once this data is beamed back to Earth (no small task, given the resolution of the images), NASA scientists are able to work out whether any of these extrasolar planets are habitable — by humans, of course, but potentially alien lifeforms as well.

The MARCI medium angle camera will take 40 m (130 ft) resolution images in eight colors, allowing us to characterize surface properties and changes in dust cover over large parts of the planet.

It has gone on to spend more than 14 years gathering a wealth of data from the Red Planet, taking high - resolution images of much of the surface, detecting minerals on the surface that form only in the presence of water, detecting hints of methane in the atmosphere and conducting close flybys of the enigmatic moon, Phobos.

The graphics on the PlayStation 3 are higher resolution and the globe isn't a simple map of the world but a weather satellite image showing the cloud patterns above the planet.

But if users are willing to accept that and lower - resolution image thumbnails, they can access Facebook quick, smooth, and cheap from the most remote corners of the planet.

The icons and images are by no means up there with the crisper and clearer smartphones screens on the planet, and doesn't match up to many of the smaller, cheaper handsets around, like the Palm Pixi Plus, which maintains a smooth and crisp resolution.