In other instances, an orbiter or a spacecraft on a flyby mission may have already taken photographs of a moon or planet. |
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Data from the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby showed that the mass of Neptune had been inaccurately measured. |
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Shortly after the Hermes flyby of October 1937, the American Museum of Natural History created a spine-tingling exhibit for public display. |
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Keller looked back at the ceremonial bandstand to see Admiral Warren saluting the flyby. |
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A tennis racket-shaped canister packed with a material called aerogel will capture the particles during the flyby. |
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A giant impact crater the size of Iowa was spotted on Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during Tuesday's Titan flyby. |
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The Deep Impact flyby spacecraft will have a ringside seat at the creation of an impact crater on a comet. |
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The New Horizons mission will include a Jupiter flyby in its journey to the Pluto system. |
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In 1965 the Soviet flyby mission designated Zond 3 returned good pictures of the Moon's far side. |
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Prior to the flyby of the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, all information about this distant system had come from observations made from Earth. |
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If the complete flyby is visible, there is a 180 degree horizontal angular view of the aircraft fly-by. |
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The user can listen to a jet aircraft flyby either as it would sound outdoors or indoors for comparison of up to 5 scenarios. |
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Photographs taken by the U. S. Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby of the Uranian system in 1986 show that Ariel's surface is crisscrossed with scarps and long valleylike formations. |
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The upcoming flyby of Halley's comet is expected to provide new information on the nature of the comet. |
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The first pictures of the flyby of the asteroid Lutetia by the European space sonde ROSETTA were successfully performed by the camera OSIRIS on this July 10th, 2010 while the spacecraft was at a barely 3000 km distance. |
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They can switch between scenarios during the flyby for better comparisons. |
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In January, NASA's Messenger spacecraft made its first flyby of Mercury, after a journey time of 33 years, passing about 200 kilometres from the planet's surface. |
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Other probes have traveled to comets and minor planets as well, including a flyby of Halley's Comet in 1986 by the Giotto probe and two flybys of asteroids in 1991 and 1994 by the Galileo probe. |
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That measurement confirmed the theoretical analysis performed before the flyby that showed it was safe for Cassini to fly very closely past Enceladus, even through part of the plume, during the March 12 flyby. |
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For its part in the ceremony, 3 Wing Bagotville will contribute some of its fighters, which will conduct a formation flyby of the War Memorial in Ottawa. |
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After the flyby, the probe continues to return data, orbiting the Sun. |
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What has been noted for all crafts for which sufficient data has been recorded, is a higher than expected velocity peak at the closest point to the planet of the flyby trajectories of all of these crafts. |
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Americas answer is to scramble a stealth flyby of the area. |
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Stardust was retargeted to go to Tempel 1 and image the crater from the Deep Impact explosion as well as more of the nucleus surface not seen on the first flyby. |
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The test was to be a simple flyby, with no effort at interception. |
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The Earth flyby gravity assist increases the spacecraft's speed relative to the Sun from 78,000 miles per hour to 87,000 miles per hour. |
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The mission plan called for a nine-year flight to the Pluto-Charon system followed by a 150-day flyby for investigation of the surfaces, atmospheres, interiors, and space environment of the two bodies. |
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During Messenger's first flyby of Mercury in 2008, many ions were identified, including those of oxygen, sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, and sulfur. |
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The Jupiter probe put itself in safe mode 10 minutes after a flyby of Earth to boost its speed. |
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Events this year include commanding the spacecraft out of hibernation mode, a complete system health checkout, and an Earth flyby for a gravity assist to Comet Boethin. |
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