Sentences with phrase «take images of the planet»

And then I would hand off the rest of the money to NASA, which would need about one - thousandth of that to build satellites that could go out and take images of the planets to see if they really are habitable.

The team that made the discovery, led by Keele University's Dr John Southworth, used the 2.2 m ESO / MPG telescope in Chile to take images of the planet's host star GJ 1132.

Ahead of Juno's arrival, the Hubble Space Telescope took some stunning new images of bright, colorful auroras in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, and the spacecraft itself took images of the planet and its four brightest moons.

Not exact matches

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.

An image taken by the Curiosity Rover has turned viral after a video posted by a group insisted that the image was the vestige of an ancient Martian tree on the planet as an assertion of life on Mars.

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...

«The first high - resolution images of the planet will be taken on August 27 when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter.»

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.

The images, taken over a 10 - hour period, created two massive maps of the entire planet, allowing scientists to measure the speeds of Jupiter's winds, identify different events in its atmosphere, and track changes in the outer layers of the planet.

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

Taking an optical image of distant planets is tough because the bright light from their stars drowns them out.

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.

MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black - and - white image from a distance of 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet.

The scientists behind the new images took pictures of Jupiter using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 over a ten - hour period and have produced two maps of the entire planet from the observations.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first - ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on.

The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the dwarf planet.

This image was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft of dwarf planet Ceres on Feb. 19 from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers).

Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater

Because of Juno's swooping polar orbit that takes it breathtakingly close to the planet, most of JunoCam's images of these features are distorted into an hourglass shape due to foreshortened horizons; the colors are pale, the outlines of clouds hazy.

The first Terrestrial Planet Finder mission will take optical images of nearby stars and essentially put a thumb over the star itself to block the light and see the dim pPlanet Finder mission will take optical images of nearby stars and essentially put a thumb over the star itself to block the light and see the dim planetplanet.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the closest images ever taken of Pan, a small moon that orbits Saturn among the planet's rings.

The image, taken in May 2012, contains a surprise: Compared with Cassini's first views of Saturn in 2004, the planet's southern hemisphere is taking on a bluish tint, and the northern hemisphere is losing its bluish tint.

At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 8,648 miles (13,917 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet.

This gallery features beautiful and fascinating images of volcanoes and eruptions taken from satellites orbiting our planet.

SHARP images of Neptune taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the planet has undergone major changes since the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by in 1989.

It's Jupiter, ablaze with infrared light in new images taken in preparation for the Juno spacecraft's July 4 arrival at the king of the planets.

The pair created the image, which took third place in the competition, from a computer simulation of an early stage in the creation of a planet.

This image is one several images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.

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.

NASA is restructuring part of a program that focuses on studying planets such as Saturn, seen here in an image taken earlier this year by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Images taken with Cassini's narrow angle camera on April 15, 2013, show disturbances at the very edge of Saturn's A ring — the outermost of the planet's large, bright rings.

This animation of the dwarf planet Ceres was made by combining images taken by the Dawn spacecraft on January 25, 2015.

There is now a companion to Voyager 1's famous snap looking at our planet from the depths of space: a radar image of the probe taken from Earth, 11.5 billion kilometres away.

The last time a spacecraft studied the planet up close was from 1974 to 1975, when the Mariner 10 probe flew past and took images of some 45 percent of the diminutive world.

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.

A new study shows that images of a meteor's streak through the atmosphere taken by Earth - gazing probes, including weather satellites, can pin down the object's orbit, enabling scientists to check and see whether another planet - threatening object is traveling in the same trajectory.

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.

This series of Hubble Space Telescope images taken over 2 years tracks the demise of a giant dark vortex on the planet Neptune.

NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) instrument aboard DSCOVR is taking almost - hourly images of the sunlit planet from its spot between Earth and the sun.

The New Horizons spacecraft finally spied the dwarf planet's two tiniest satellites, Kerberos and Styx, in a series of images taken from April 25 to May 1, when the probe was nearly 90 million kilometers from Pluto.

This camera, called Junocam, is designed to take hundreds of color images of the giant planet, some at resolutions never before seen, as the spacecraft orbits Jupiter, coming within 5000 km of the gas giant's cloudtops (see Figure 1a and b).

Some of the science Cassini performed during this period included creating maps of the planet's gravity and magnetic fields, estimating how much material is in the rings, and taking high - resolution images of Saturn and its rings from close - up.

The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles from 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.

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.

Images of the the ultraviolet glow, taken by the Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph (IUVS), can tell scientists more about the day - to - day of the Red Planet.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took these images of dwarf planet Ceres.

Our goal was to take some of the first images in the EDEN survey, starting our search for habitable zone planets around nearby stars.

But taking spectra of moons suitable for life is exceedingly difficult to do with current technology, even for the larger planets themselves; only a handful of exoplanets to date have been imaged.