Sentences with phrase «spots on the comet»

The real surprise was a cluster of spots on the comet's nucleus that are three times darker than the rest of it, reflecting less than 1 % of light.

Not exact matches

An icy comet just hurtled past the sun on a strange path that suggests it came from outside our solar system, making it the first such interloper we've ever spotted

They still don't know exactly where the probe is on the comet's surface, but Holger Sierks, who is in charge of the OSIRIS camera on Rosetta, said they should have a picture of Philae's 1 kilometre - high bounce after landing, which will help pinpoint its final resting spot.

If ESA discovers that J is unsuitable between now and November, they have selected a backup site, C. Landing on this spot would give Philae a view of the comet's «neck», which is of high scientific interest, but J won out as the easier place to touch down.

The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the comet on Wednesday, 12 November, has not moved from its landing spot and so its solar panels are not getting enough sunlight.

The J landing spot, on the «head» of the comet, was chosen for having the smoothest surface, but that doesn't mean Rosetta's lander probe, Philae, will touch down without incident.

PHILAE FOUND The landing spot of the Philae comet lander (left, and bottom right), seen in this September 2 image from the Rosetta spacecraft, has been hiding on comet 67P (top right) since November 2014.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has spotted an amino acid on the comet it orbits — confirming that a ball of ice and dust can hold a major building block of life.

When the actin polymerization occurs at one spot on the surface of an autophagosome, which coincides with the location of WHAMM on these organelles, an actin comet tail is formed, and the rapid assembly / disassembly of the actin polymers «pushes» the autophagosome toward the lysosome for final processing.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has spotted an amino acid on the comet it orbits — confirming that a ball of ice and dust can hold one of life's major building blocks.

Radar data helped locate an approximate position for its final resting spot — somewhere just within the rim of the large crater on the head of the duck - shaped comet, what was once known as landing site «B.» Holger Sierks, principal investigator for the orbiter's camera, was waiting for images to be downloaded to Earth tonight that he thought would contain the lander.

Deep Space 1 flew past Comet Borrelly on 22 September, spotting jets of gas and dust streaming from the thinnest part of the comet's bowling - pin - shaped core.

On July 4, 2011, Lockheed Martin astrophysicist Karel Schrijver spotted the comet on satellite images and quickly determined that it was on a collision course with the suOn July 4, 2011, Lockheed Martin astrophysicist Karel Schrijver spotted the comet on satellite images and quickly determined that it was on a collision course with the suon satellite images and quickly determined that it was on a collision course with the suon a collision course with the sun.

Try to spot the comet low in the southeast around 5 a.m. local time on Nov. 17 or 18, when it passes near the bright star Spica.

These moons» exact orbits aren't yet known because they have been observed for such a short time, so official recognition and naming by the Minor Planet Center (the clearinghouse for information on moons, comets, etc.) must wait until the moons are spotted again this fall.

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In addition to water, organic molecules, which could have been deposited on the surface by crashing comets, somehow would have to get through the thick shells of ice for life to form, a situation that puts Saturn's geyser - spewing moon Enceladus at the top of Nimmo's list of potential spots for life.

The comet was spotted on April 4, 1861 by A.E. Thatcher, an amateur skywatcher in New York City, earning him kudos from the noted astronomer Sir John Herschel.

As of November 2012 the satellite had spotted around 2,400 comets, with new ones (on average) found about once every 2.6 days.

As it approaches Churyumov — Gerasimenko, Rosetta will scout out five candidate spots to set down the Philae lander for the historic first attempt at landing on a comet.

A British and American joint shuttle mission (aboard the shuttle Churchill) is up above the earths atmosphere doing research on the comet when they notice something weird clinging onto the front of it and they get a radar readout and see that it is a craft of some sort, the crew is able to get the shuttle close enough to do a spacewalk and investigate the craft and Col. Tom Carlsen takes his crew into an open spot and sees hundreds of dead bat like creatures, and they have been drained of all of their fluids.