Sentences with phrase «snap images of its surface»

The technology got a test run last year, when ESA's Smart - 1 arrived at the moon and began snapping images of the surface.

Another flew a kite equipped with a GoPro camera to snap images of its surface, needed to create a 3 - D model of the glacier because drones are not allowed in federal wilderness areas.

Not exact matches

To start, he placed a sandfish lizard in a vat of sand and snapped 1,000 X-ray images each second as it wiggled its way beneath the surface.

The best global view of the heavily cratered surface of Mercury — a mosaic of more than 140 images snapped by Mariner 10 in March 1974 — reveals expansive plains that may have been created by volcanic activity.

The remotely controlled hexacopter that snapped this image off the New England coast last summer can also swing down to catch samples of spray that whales spout when they surface.

Chang» e-1, launched in 2007, spent 16 months in orbit snapping the nation's first images of the lunar surface.

Cameras arrayed above the gel snap images of the pattern imprinted in the paint, and computer vision algorithms reconstruct the surface in 3D.

It will snap the first close - up images of Pluto and Charon, map their surface features with visible - wavelength cameras, study their compositions in the near - infrared spectrum, and monitor Pluto's thin atmosphere with ultraviolet spectrometers and radio waves.

The spacecraft snapped 7,329 pictures and managed to image 80 percent of the Martian surface in less than a year.

The image, snapped on February 25, captures a number of impressive features present on the surface of the Red Planet, including the Martian south pole, an enormous basin and two vast channels.

And he's a writer's writer, able to snap an image as clear as a Kodachrome — «the sun dabbling melted ore on the rippling surface of the East River» or Natty describing his father's briefcase as made from «equal parts of a 1930s football, Jack Dempsey's boxing gloves, and Clint Eastwood's face.»

But Tuymans» use of paint results in bleached impenetrable surfaces that appear to emanate light, alluding to a zoomed image on a digital monitor, or the freshly snapped image on an iPhone screen.

Longo's technique emphasises the meaning of the original image: A snap - shot of beefy football players receives a shiny surface; a riff, perhaps, on the fetishization of the American sports culture.