Sentences with phrase «spacecraft appeared»

While the spacecraft appeared to be working as expected and in contact with mission controllers, it clearly did not deliver the views that scientists and spectators were hoping for.

Time slows at that end due to an effect in Einstein's theory of special relativity known as time dilation: Relative to a stationary observer on the ground, time aboard a spacecraft appears to slow down; relative to the spacecraft, time for the observer on the ground seems to speed up.

Now the Cassini spacecraft appears to have found a ring system around Saturn's second - largest moon, Rhea.

In fact, one criterion for deciding which design to take to the demonstration stage will be which spacecraft appears to be most commercially attractive.

When twelve oblong spacecraft appear in the skies around the Earth, the military and scientific elite of the planet are assembled to discover whether humanity's visitors are friends or foe.

Drawing patterns and shapes Students create a space game with a scrolling backdrop (sprite) and alien spacecraft appearing from any edge attacking the base.

Not exact matches

There appeared no way to get a spacecraft to slow down enough to glide into Mars» gravitational spacetime depression because the «bowl,» not that deep to begin with, was itself a too - rapidly moving target.

The spot where Europa's plumes appear to originate (left, with the green oval showing the 2014 occurrence and the blue oval showing the 2016 occurrence) is also the warmest spot on the icy moon's surface, shown in a heat map from the Galileo spacecraft (right, with lighter yellow contours showing relatively warmer regions).

The possible ring appears as a faint streak near Jupiter's moon Himalia in an image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

This article appears in the Sept. 2, 2017 issue of Science News with the headline, «Cassini's curtain call: The spacecraft that put Saturn and its moons in the spotlight bids adieu.»

► A citizen - science group appears to be getting its own NASA spacecraft.

As New Scientist went to press, the launch on Tuesday from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands appeared to have gone without a hitch, inserting the RazakSAT spacecraft into a near - equatorial orbit at an altitude of 695 kilometres.

Over the course of a month, five expanding disklike depressions appeared on the surface of 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft, which has been orbiting 67P since August 2014 (SN: 9/6/14, p. 8).

There were even some hints of such «anisotropy» in the early 2000s, when measurements from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) spacecraft suggested that some subtle undulations in the motley CMB appeared to line up along a so - called «axis of evil» — which most researchers discount as a statistical fluke.

In 1996, a NASA spacecraft named Polar appeared to travel directly through a tear in the cocoon.

The mile - wide asteroid Braille, visited by the Deep Space 1 spacecraft in 1999, appears to be a big chip that broke off Vesta.

Furthermore, the team tested the theory against observations of NASA's 34 - year - old Pioneer 10 spacecraft, which appears about 400,000 kilometres away from its expected location in the outer solar system.

The spots appear blackbecause the radar beams that strike there are not scattered back towardthe spacecraft; rather, they bounce cleanly off into space.

Since the earliest days of the space programme, mechanical devices on spacecraft have appeared to be well within the state of the art.

This clean room was designed and built for MMS to house all four spacecraft at once: Two additional observatories appear in the background.

For some time SpaceX appeared to have been in the lead in terms of getting its Crew Dragon spacecraft ready to fly first under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Saturn's largest and second largest moons, Titan and Rhea, appear to be stacked on top of each other in this true - color scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft released on Dec. 23, 2013.

Saturn's north polar hexagon appears to be a long - lived feature of the atmosphere, having been spotted in images of Saturn in the early 1980s, again in the 1990s, and then by the Cassini spacecraft in the past several years.

The size of each star is determined by its distance from the viewer's spacecraft; closer stars appear larger, while more distant stars appear smaller.

In this image, made by the Cassini spacecraft in 2007, the moon Enceladus appears to hover above Saturn's rings.

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft prepares to shoot the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings for the second time in its Grand Finale, Cassini engineers are delighted, while ring scientists are puzzled, that the region appears to be relatively dust - free.

(The ESA spacecraft arrived at Sol's hottest planet on March 11, 2006, where it is being used to investigate how Venus — although similar to Earth in size, mass, and composition — evolved over the past 4.6 billion years to have atmospheric and planetary surface characteristics that now appear very different from those on Earth.)

There was the off chance, they noted, that what appeared to be an asteroid might actually be an interstellar spacecraft.

SOHO and other spacecraft helped explain changes in magnetic field Voyager 1 detected, which appeared to shift with changes in the solar wind.

This view of the sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the active sunspot region 1429 as it appeared at 11:30 p.m. ET on March 5, 2012 to the spacecraft's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager.

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

When a spacecraft carrying research samples from a shady corporate gene - editing experiment explodes in the atmosphere — Marley Shelton appears in this delightfully bonkers riff on «Alien,» with a giant space rat — scattering its tainted shrapnel across the U.S., George, a wolf and a crocodile are infected with the stuff.

The most interesting character may be Julia (Olga Kurylenko), a survivor of a fallen spacecraft who has also been appearing in Jack's dreams.

And while it seems just yesterday that variable valve timing appeared only on a Martian spacecraft, it rides under the hood of this fine 1.6 - liter subcompact.

In addition to these mods, Bright Engrams appear to contain mostly cosmetic items such as Sparrows, spacecraft, and unique emotes.

This [above] image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft, highlights a feature on Jupiter where multiple atmospheric conditions appear to collide.

When the smoke cleared, what originally appeared to be a magnificent spacecraft would slowly fall over revealing itself to be nothing but a cardboard cut - out.

In a new study appearing in the June edition of the journal Icarus, scientists used images collected over several years by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to discover that the heat from within the planet powers the jet streams.

Perchlorates appear in nuclear missiles, flares and rocket fuel for spacecraft.

The upper - air temperature ECV appears to be in good health with the planned flight of CrIS / ATMS on NPOESS and IASI on MetOp, although several participants noted that the inadequate diurnal coverage could be improved by addition of CrIS to the early AM (0530, descending) NPOESS spacecraft.