Sentences with phrase «space probe discovered»

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Although Saturn was visited by three spacecraft in the 1970s and 1980s, my fellow scientists and I couldn't have imagined what the Cassini space probe would discover during its sojourn at the ringed planet when it launched 20 years ago.

The Voyager 1 space probe has merged into a newly discovered zone at the solar system's edge, and scientists think the craft's next destination could be interstellar space.

When Cassini dropped the European Space Agency's Huygens probe onto the surface of Titan in 2005, scientists were surprised to discover an Earthlike world with craggy mountains, broad plains, eroded coastlines, and familiar - looking weather patterns.

Huygens, a disk - shaped probe built by the European Space Agency (and named after Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch astronomer who discovered Titan), should rectify the situation.

And the problem gets worse every year as more objects are discovered, and space probes find ever more details on the surfaces of planets, moons and asteroids.

For instance, during the decade it orbited Venus, the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier prSpace Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier prspace, something discovered by earlier probes.

Updated NASA space probes have discovered an artificial barrier around Earth created through human activity — showing we are not only responsible for shaping the environment on land, but that we are now having an impact on space too.

The Solar System is a beautiful place filled with wonders that NASA space probes are only beginning to discover.

It revolves around a curious extraterrestrial race who discover Voyager, a space probe launched into space by NASA in the 1970s, after if crashes into their planet.