Sentences with phrase «twin spacecraft»

Now, we have these impeccably designed instruments on twin spacecraft, helping us get at really fundamental understanding of space plasma physics.

Data from the probes have already led to several significant discoveries, some made just days after the special twin spacecraft soared into orbit.

GRAIL's twin spacecraft studied the internal structure and composition of the moon in unprecedented detail for nine months.

After that successful encounter, mission directors retargeted Pioneer 10's twin spacecraft, Pioneer 11, to use Jupiter's gravity as a catapult to explore Saturn in 1979.

For years scientists scratched their heads over the «Pioneer anomaly»: Radio signals from the twin spacecraft, which are no longer in contact with Earth, showed they were decelerating more rapidly than could be explained solely by the pull of the sun or other known physical effects.

NASA built the twin spacecraft to learn more about coronal mass ejections, or CMEs — billion - ton spitballs of electrically charged particles that sporadically fire off from the sun.

At the moment, Kaiser says, the trailing STEREO orbiter sees areas of the sun that will be visible from Earth in about three days, but in two years» time the twin spacecraft will be separated by 180 degrees, allowing simultaneous observation of the entire sun for the first time.

Even before the impact itself, the twin spacecraft — the impactor itself, and the flyby craft which moved aside to observe it — were both returning images far more detailed than any previous images of a comet's nucleus.

More insight into the moon may come next year from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), twin spacecraft that will orbit the moon and map its gravitational field in search of clues about its interior structure.

The twin spacecraft both visited Jupiter and Saturn; from there Voyager I explored the hazy moon Titan, while Voyager II became the first (and, to date, only) probe to expl Read More