Sentences with phrase «using orbiters»

The image, snapped using the orbiter's HiRise camera, shows several RSLs that appear as dark lines extending downslope.

Lava tubes and related flow structures were first recognized upon examination of Viking orbiter images, and later identified using orbiter imagery from Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Not exact matches

The new work by Okubo and his USGS colleagues zoomed out for a wider view of the canyons, yet used incredibly detailed images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera to look for signs of ancient shallow pools.

An orbiter that used the other four wavelengths, too, could do even more, Dyar says.

Planetary scientist Heather Meyer, now at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, used data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to...

Researchers used over a decade of imaging data taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to investigate the composition of the Red Planet's frequent...

Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

LUNAR LOOK A new moon map, compiled using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, is the most detailed global look yet at the moon's light - colored plains (shaded green).

Once he had the signal from the lab glass, he used an algorithm designed to pick out similar signals in data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which flies aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

This remarkable shot looks like it could've been taken by an approaching Shuttle Orbiter, but in fact was obtained using an 11 - inch telescope sitting right here on terra firma!

Using the Shallow Radar instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Holt was able to peek beneath the ice's surface for clues; in particular, the radar could pick out differences in electrical reflectivity between overlying layers, showing how the ice built up over time.

With Benson he spent two years on a sequel of sorts, a lunar orbiter that used an ion engine, but the idea was passed over.

This research benefited from coordinated use of multiple instruments on Mars orbiters, plus the longevities at Mars now exceeding 11 years for MRO and 16 years for Odyssey.

Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars» surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes.

A side benefit of it is that information about when two orbiters will be near each other — though safely apart — could be used for planning coordinated science observations.

All five active Mars orbiters use the communication and tracking services of NASA's Deep Space Network, which is managed at JPL.

During the 21 August event, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter used a system of three cameras to photograph the moon's shadow as it passed near Nashville, ASU Now reports.

Beginning in 2011, scientists using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)-- the best camera looking down on Mars — found hundreds of streaks, about 5 meters wide, that appear seasonally on steep slopes (pictured).

Talk about failure to communicate: In 1999, the $ 125 million Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in Martian orbit because navigation software used metric units while the thrusters were programmed to follow English measurements.

Now, a team using an imaging spectrometer aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reports the discovery of numerous patches of opaline silica across the Red Planet.

Sanchez - Cano has investigated the interaction of the comet with energetic particles from the Sun, and the effects of the CME and cometary encounter on the martian atmosphere, using data from ESA's Mars Express mission, NASA's MAVEN and Mars Odyssey orbiters, and the Curiosity rover on the martian surface.

The authors used data from CRaTER on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

The crater catalogue roughly doubles the size of that produced in 1978 by Don Wilhelms of the U.S. Geological Survey and his colleagues using photographs from NASA's Lunar Orbiter missions in the mid-1960s.

11 The $ 125 million Mars Climate Orbiter crashed on the Red Planet because the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used metric units, while engineers at Lockheed Martin used feet and pounds.

He said that in an emergency, NASA has arranged with the European Space Agency to use its Mars Express orbiter to relay signals.

Using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Scanlon found pillow lava formations, similar to those that form on Earth when lava erupts at the bottom of an ocean.

We obtained direct global measurements of the lunar surface using multispectral thermal emission mapping with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment.

Find out how the Cassini orbiter and Huygens lander work and how we use the powerful suite of science instruments with this engaging 3D model.

Using imagery taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2007, amateur astronomers located an object that could be a Russian lander that went dark after a few seconds on Mars in 1971.

The images used in the discovery come from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Big heavy missions are slower, but using NASA's Space Launch System rocket will make it faster and the arrival times will be sometime in the 2030s or after for an orbiter.

The rover science team identified a different path using data from Curiosity's onboard software and from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

NASA created the map by tracking small fluctuations in the orbits of three spacecraft over 16 years using the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Parteli and colleague Hans Hermann, of Brazil's Federal University of Ceará, used computer simulations to reproduce actual Martian dunes observed by the Mars Orbiter Camera aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

The new map of Mars» gravity was generated by scientists using data from three NASA spacecraft — the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — which mapped the Red Planet from orbit.

The Miniature Moon Wall is a portable system that utilizes data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter to enable the use to «fly» over the surface of the Moon.

Using data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), citizen scientists are examining images of Mars» South Pole mapping the size and directions of seasonal fans.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future missions to the moon.

The Moon Wall is a museum exhibit at Adler Planetarium that utilizes data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter to enable the use to «fly» over the surface of the Moon.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Mars Color Imager (MARCI), shown here with a gloved hand for scale, is currently orbiting Mars and taking pictures used to monitor the weather by observing the entire planet every day at 5 visible and 2 ultraviolet wavelengths.

Curiosity can either communicate directly with Earth's Deep Space Network (DSN) antenna via an X band (8 GHz) link, or it can use a UHF (300MHz - 3 GHz) transmitter to relay signals through Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which orbit a few hundred miles above Curiosity.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future...

Images used are publicly available from the NASA MESSENGER and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

The Mars Odyssey Orbiter is equipped with three scientific instruments that it uses to explore the Martian surface and atmosphere.

The Trace Gas Orbiter has reached its final orbit after a year of «aerobraking» that ended in February.This exciting operation saw the craft skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, using drag on its solar wings to transform its initial highly elliptical four - day orbit of about 200 x 98 000 km into the final, much lower and near - circular path at about 400 km.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment or HiRISE equipment to detect and capture the dark spot.

During the past five years, researchers used OMEGA and NASA's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer, or CRISM, instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to identify clay minerals at thousands of locations on Mars.

The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) science investigation used 3 instruments: a narrow angle camera that obtained grayscale (black - and - white) high resolution images (typically 1.5 to 12 m per pixel) and red and blue wide angle cameras for context (240 m per pixel) and daily global imaging (7.5 km per pixel).

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will use a neutron detector — the Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector or FREND — to map subsurface hydrogen to a depth of 1 m to reveal deposits of water - ice hidden just below the surface.

Officials recently announced that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shall fly atop the next - generation rocket in 2005, using the Atlas 5 - 401 configuration with a four - meter fairing and no solid boosters.