Sentences with phrase «surface during its flyby»

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The basin was discovered during Messenger's second flyby of the planet on 6 October 2008, a manoeuvre that allowed the probe to photograph 30 % of the planet's surface not previously seen by spacecraft.

During the 25 - minute flyby last June, NEAR snapped pictures of Mathilde's black surface from a distance of 750 miles.

New Horizons has beamed home less than 2 percent of the data it collected during its historic flyby, and NASA has yet to release any images taken at or near closest approach, when the probe was just 7,800 miles (12,500 km) from Pluto's surface.

The prime mission plan includes 40 to 45 flybys, during which the spacecraft would image the moon's icy surface at high resolution and investigate its composition and the structure of its interior and icy shell.

The view was obtained during a distant (non-targeted) flyby, during which Cassini passed 303,000 miles (488,000 kilometers) above the moon's surface.

Titan Opaque layers of clouds prevented Voyager from seeing Titan's surface during its 1980 flyby.

(Courtesy NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Arizona State) MESSENGER Discovers Volcanoes on Mercury As reported in the July 4, 2008 issue of Science magazine, volcanoes have been discovered on Mercury's surface from images acquired during MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby.