Sentences with phrase «surface images of the planet»

Within two hours Phoenix had transmitted the first surface images of the planet's polar terrain: a level plain marked with regular octagonal mounds and furrows, evidence of freeze - thaw cycles in a substance that Phoenix's instruments would prove to be frozen water.

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Planet owns and operates the largest private satellite fleet in orbit, and provides the most consistently up - to - date images of our Earth's surface

Early images taken by New Horizons of the dwarf planet's surface mean we have to rethink how the planet was formed

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...

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.

Ever since, it has been returning stunning images of the planet's surface along with evidence of water and carbon dioxide ice.

In looking at NASA images of Mars a few years ago, Brown University geologist Peter Schultz noticed sets of strange bright streaks emanating from a few large - impact craters on the planet's surface.

This composite image compares how big the moons of Mars appear, as seen from the surface of the Red Planet, in relation to the size that our Moon appears from Earth's surface.

Last year the Herschel Space Observatory detected wisps of water vapor around the dwarf planet, and since its arrival at Ceres, Dawn has imaged oodles of highly reflective bright spots on the Cereian surface that may be sites of exposed water ice.

Messenger flew just 200 kilometres above the planet's surface on 6 October to image 30 % of the planet that had never been photographed by spacecraft.

As a worldwide audience awaits images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto on July 14, NAU scientists already are supporting astronomers» understanding of the dwarf planet's surface.

The probe's laser range - finder measured less variation in the height of the planet's surface than it did in the first flyby in January, which imaged a different part of the planet.

In 1975, Venera 9 became the first probe to send back pictures from the surface of another planet: fuzzy images of the rock - strewn Venusian landscape.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Martins images is the fact that the texture of the surface of the «planet» looks familiar, like something we've seen before, on earth.

The far ultraviolet images revealed that the front edges of the shimmering auroral curtains, which can stretch 1000 kilometers tall on Saturn, raced across the planet's surface at more than 4 kilometers per second — about three times faster than the planet rotates, the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

The close - up image was taken about 1.5 hours before New Horizons closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was 47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) from the surface of the planet.

Unlike images that depict the Red Planet's surface in terms of elevation alone (bright colors from white through red to blue), the new map (muted colors) breaks the planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other faPlanet's surface in terms of elevation alone (bright colors from white through red to blue), the new map (muted colors) breaks the planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other faplanet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other factors.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

This enhanced color image of the dwarf planet helps scientists detect differences in the composition and texture of Pluto's surface.

An image of a rocky planet describes the topography of its surface, from which geologists can draw some conclusions about the planet's history, but it tells us little about its inner workings or how the surface features formed.

The spacecraft also took measurements of the planet's surface with a laser, which again suggested patches of ice — although some of the bright regions in the radar images showed up dark in the laser's readings.

Taking observations from twin telescopes mounted on the noses of the planes, Caspi will capture the clearest images of the Sun's outer atmosphere — the corona — to date and the first - ever thermal images of Mercury, revealing how temperature varies across the planet's surface.

The images will continue to improve as the spacecraft spirals closer to the surface during its 16 - month study of the dwarf planet.

The images, which show the cratered and pockmarked surface of the small icy world, were taken by the Cassini probe, which entered into orbit around the planet in 2004.

Mariner 10, the first spacecraft sent to explore Mercury, gathered images and data over just 45 percent of the planet's surface during three fly - bys in 1974 and 1975.

As part of that mission, it flies close to the cloud tops that obscure the planet's surface, using its instruments to take images, study the auroras and find out more about the world's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

3D scans from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of thick sheets of underground ice below the Red Planet's surface.

The closest images ever of Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, have revealed the best view yet of the mystery lights on its cratered surface that have puzzled astronomers for some time.

The Viking 1 Lander's first image of the Red Planet showed a few feet of Martian surface and the lander's own footpad.

NASA's Mars Opportunity rover has captured a rare image of a Martian dust devil traveling across the surface of the Red Planet.

Image: An artists's interpretation of what it could look like on the surface of one of these planets

The image, snapped on February 25, captures a number of impressive features present on the surface of the Red Planet, including the Martian south pole, an enormous basin and two vast channels.

Analysis of the images revealed that the lander survived its Dec. 25, 2003 touchdown, partially deploying on the surface of the Red Planet.

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft flew 7,800 mi above the surface of Pluto and sent back fascinating images of the dwarf planet and its large (and intriguing) moon Charon.

This artists impression of super-Earth 55 Cancri e shows a hot partially - molten surface of the planet before and afte... view image

Images taken from orbit do not reveal any more information regarding the dark spots, but future probes landing on the Red Planet's surface may reveal more details on what the Mars holes contain and give an estimate of their depth.

The new images are presented in false color, detailing an area that once played host to huge volumes of water, leaving scars across the Red Planet's surface.

Within our own solar system, HDST would provide images of weather and surfaces on the outer planets and their moons far beyond today's capabilities.

The spacecraft, after collecting radar images of 98 percent of the planet's surface, makes a dramatic conclusion to its highly successful mission.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe continues to image and study the surface of the Red Planet and gather data about the Martian atmosphere today, nearly 10 years after arriving in orbit around Mars.

This gear allows the probe to analyze surface minerals, hunt for underground water, monitor Martian weather and take spectacular up - close images of the planet's surface.

This image is one of those mosaic frames and was acquired on January 14, 2008, 18:10 UTC, when the spacecraft was about 18,000 kilometers (11,000 miles) from the surface of Mercury, about 55 minutes before MESSENGER's closest approach to the planet.

Project Blue aims to image «Earth - like» planets (roughly 0.5 to 1.5 times of the size of Earth) orbiting within either star's habitable zone and possessing an atmosphere that could allow liquid water to exist on its surface.

This will be the first time since Apollo that images were acquired during descent to the surface of another planet.

In 2014, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these images of the lost Beagle 2 lander on the surface of the Red Planet.

The MARCI medium angle camera will take 40 m (130 ft) resolution images in eight colors, allowing us to characterize surface properties and changes in dust cover over large parts of the planet.

It has gone on to spend more than 14 years gathering a wealth of data from the Red Planet, taking high - resolution images of much of the surface, detecting minerals on the surface that form only in the presence of water, detecting hints of methane in the atmosphere and conducting close flybys of the enigmatic moon, Phobos.

The surfaces of planets and moons alike feel barren and remind you of the stream of images NASA releases from surfaces other than on Earth.

As the artist explains in his statement, some of the works have been rendered as 3D images, adding an element of the absurd where deep textures on the surface of another planet become visible through cheap 3D glasses.