Sentences with phrase «spacecraft images»

And stunning new spacecraft images show fault lines, volcanic domes, and solidified lava flows on the lunar surface, forcing a reevaluation of long - held beliefs about the moon's early evolution.

A century later, spacecraft images revealed that the moons look like asteroids — dark, crater - pocked, and potato - shaped — suggesting Mars had snatched them from the nearby asteroid belt.

It may be hundreds of years before we begin to answer some of the profound questions raised by the superb spacecraft images of the 20th century.

His subtitle, Portraits of New Worlds, reflects the current importance of spacecraft images.

Geologist Emily Lakdawalla, a senior editor and «planetary evangelist» at the society, has long worked to connect the public to the vast spacecraft image collections online.

Not exact matches

The nuclear - powered spacecraft has orbited Saturn for 13 years, and sent back hundreds of thousands of images.

It will be awarded to the first team that lands a commercial spacecraft on the moon, travels 500 meters across its surface and sends high - definition images and video back to Earth — all before the end of 2015.

The Mars Odyssey spacecraft recorded the image on its way to the Red Planet.

The images were captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is intended to help researchers learn about Jupiter's origins, atmosphere, and other mysteries.

Despite astronomers» long - standing interest in it, however, it's mysterious: It's hundreds of millions of miles away, and only a handful of spacecraft have taken detailed images of it.

It's remarkable to see how much better the images got when spacecraft got up close, on flybys or landings.

We're just now seeing them — months after we first encountered the dwarf planet — because the New Horizons spacecraft can only trickle the images back to Earth from billions of miles away.

The spacecraft captured these images just 10,000 miles away from Pluto, with a resolution of about 250 feet per pixel.

Each time NASA's Juno spacecraft flies over Jupiter's clouds — roughly once every 53.5 days — it takes some of t he most incredible and unprecedented images of the planet ever seen.

A still image taken from a video rendering shows a nanocraft which could be used on Breakthrough Starshot, a $ 100 million research and engineering program aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for light - propelled spacecrafts.

The Google Lunar X Prize, announced in 2007, called for putting a spacecraft on the moon that would be able to send back video and images and also move more than 500 meters.

In 2010 and 2011, the Cassini spacecraft was able to capture close - up, fly - by images of Helene.

Quickly analyzing many images of stationary objects taken from different angles as the spacecraft descends can create a 3 - D rendering of the ground.

The animation was developed from a series of images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015.

This false - color image of Venus from the Akatsuki spacecraft shows a cloud - covered atmosphere as complex and dynamic as Earth's.

Processed images from the Akatsuki spacecraft reveal beautiful details of this strange world

The first line is captured, then the orbit of the spacecraft moves the camera relative to the surface, and then the next line is captured, and so on, as thousands of lines are compiled into a full image.

New maps of the rocky planet's surface, based on images taken in the 1990s by NASA's Magellan spacecraft, show that Venus» low - lying plains are surrounded by a complex network of ridges...

But freshly analyzed images from NASA's STEREO spacecraft, which blocks out the sun (center) to bring the corona into view, shows unexpected texture.

These 210 images recap the spacecraft's encounter with the space rock.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting since 6 March, took the sharpest images yet of the cratered surface, from a distance of 13,600 kilometres.

Pluto's first official surface - feature names are marked on this map, compiled from images and data gathered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its flight through the Pluto system in 2015.

The Hubble Space Telescope alone has made more than a million observations since its 1990 launch; spacecraft at Mars, the moon and Saturn produced 120,000 new images during a typical 90 - day period this year.

This artist's impression is based on a detailed map of the surface compiled from images taken from NASA's Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres.

Jupiter glows with infrared light in new images taken in preparation for the July 4 arrival of the Juno spacecraft.

Swirling clouds blanket Jupiter's northern and southern poles in the first closeup images of the planet taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

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

It has disappeared before: in 1973 when NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft took the first close - up images of Jupiter, and in the early 1990s.

As the $ 3 billion Cassini spacecraft orbits Saturn, it is broadcasting a stream of images and other data to Earth, some 850 million miles away, that show a ring architecture even more convoluted than expected.

Junichi Haruyama of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and colleagues found the «skylight» into a suspected intact tube when studying images of a volcanic area of the moon called the Marius Hills, taken by Japan's Kaguya spacecraft.

For over 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft has orbited Saturn, beaming back dazzling images from the ringed planet and its diverse moons.

Color and black - and - white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.

An ocean might lurk under the ice of Saturn's moon Dione, seen in this 2015 image from the Cassini spacecraft with Saturn and its rings in the background.

This landscape is assembled from images taken by the 1979 Voyager spacecraft and by the Galileo craft, which cruised the Jovian system in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Two Views of Home: These images show views of Earth and the moon from NASA's Cassini (left) and MESSENGER spacecraft (right) from July 19, 2013.

The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument is visible in the center of the image at the bottom left corner of the spacecraft.

This mystery is called the Lunar Farside Highlands Problem and dates back to 1959, when the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 transmitted the first images of the «dark» side of the moon back to Earth.

In his downtime between projects, he pulls up random images from NASA's orbital spacecraft just to see if he might spot something interesting.

«NASA releases images of Earth by two interplanetary spacecraft.»

Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).

This high - resolution image of Jupiter's moon Io was snapped last November 6 by the Galileo spacecraft, and it has given astronomers their best look at the most volcanically active object in the solar system since the Voyager flyby in 1979.

The White House would also turn off the Earth - observing instruments on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft, which capture full - disk images of Earth from about 1.6 million miles away.

TWO FOR ONE The two lobes of comet 67P, seen in this August 2014 image from the Rosetta spacecraft, probably came from two different comets, a new study suggests.

On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings — and, in the background, our home planet, Earth.

IN THE REARVIEW WINDOW A final image of Saturn's moon Titan (like one shown here from the Cassini spacecraft's last distant flyby September 11) will be among the «final picture postcards of the Saturn system... to put in our Cassini scrapbook,» Linda Spilker, head scientist for the Cassini mission, said in a news conference September 13.