News tagged with flyby
Halfway to Pluto, New Horizons Wakes Up in 'Exotic Territory'
Zipping through space at nearly a million miles per day, NASA's New Horizons probe is halfway to Pluto and just woke up for the first time in months to look around.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Cassini successfully flies over Enceladus
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Tethys were taken on April 14, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Primordial dry ice fuels comet jets
One of the biggest comet findings coming out of the amazing images and data taken by the University of Maryland-led EPOXI mission as it zipped past comet Hartley 2 last week is that dry ice is the 'jet' fuel ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Space rock gives Earth a close shave
An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Cassini Spacecraft to Monitor North Pole on Titan
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though there are no plans to investigate whether Saturn's moon Titan has a Santa Claus, NASA's Cassini will zoom close to Titan's north pole this weekend.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Phobos flyby success
Mars Express encountered Phobos last night, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest any manmade object has ever approached Mars' enigmatic moon. The data collected could help unlock the origin of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Cassini gazes at veiled Titan
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft will swing high over Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Sept. 24, taking a long, sustained look at the hazy moon. At closest approach, Cassini will fly within 8,175 kilometers ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2010 |
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NASA captures new images of large asteroid passing Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Cassini Getting the Lowdown on Titan This Weekend
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take its lowest dip through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan in the early morning of June 21 UTC, which is the evening of June 20 Pacific time. This ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Engineers assessing Cassini spacecraft
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are working to understand what caused NASA's Cassini spacecraft to put itself into "safe mode," a precautionary standby mode. Cassini entered ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Missions that weren't: NASA's manned mission to Venus
In the mid-1960s, before any Apollo hardware had flown with a crew, NASA was looking ahead and planning its next major programs. It was a bit of a challenge. After all, how do you top landing a man on the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2011 |
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MESSENGER team releases first global map of mercury
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's MESSENGER mission team and cartographic experts from the U. S. Geological Survey have created a critical tool for planning the first orbital observations of the planet Mercury - a global ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Phobos flyby images (w/ Video)
Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars' rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 metres per pixel. They show the proposed landing ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Rosetta's blind date with asteroid Lutetia
ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta is heading for a blind date with asteroid Lutetia. Rosetta does not yet know what Lutetia looks like but beautiful or otherwise the two will meet on 10 July.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 15, 2010 |
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En route to a comet, European probe Rosetta to fly by asteroid
A billion-euro (1.25-billion-dollar) European spacecraft will get up close and personal with an asteroid this Saturday as the probe blasts through the Solar System on its way to rendezvous with a comet.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 07, 2010 |
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