Science news articles about 'orbital images'

... Camera on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter imaged the region of Nepenthes Mensae, a river delta on Mars, on 22 January 2008. The region ...

Phoenix mission runs into first glitch, while orbiter images lander on surface.

Mankind's first up-close photos of the lunar landscape have been rescued from four decades of dusty storage, and they've been restored to such a high quality that they rival anything taken by modern ...

ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged the snow-laden region of Rupes Tenuis on the martian north pole on 29 July 2008.

... of one of the instruments on board, the imaging system known as LROC (short for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera ... in low polar orbit around the moon, LROC will capture thousands of images of the lunar surface ... in areas where the highest resolution Apollo orbital images were taken to look for new craters ...

As records have resurfaced, enthusiasts working from an abandoned McDonald's have begun restoring famous images of the moon made by the 1960s Lunar Orbiter spacecraft in unprecedented detail.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images Tranquility base, site of Apollo 11 landing.

ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged the snow-laden region of Rupes Tenuis on the martian north pole on 29 July 2008.

... Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at more of a sideways angle than earlier orbital images of this crater ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can we measure the size and shape of equipment and other objects on the moon using orbital images from the current Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission?

... down Martian cliffs in spectacular images such as this. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been snapping similar ... of Mars You Want to See Up CloseMars Orbiter Images Suggest Water Flowed on Mars ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated, unsuccessful attempts to contact the lander, and a new orbiter image shows signs of ice damage to Phoenix.

... KREEP Terrane. "In the initial LRO images, taken with the orbiter's Narrow-Angle Cameras (NACs ... — that allows us to rotate the terrain in the computer." (For more on the orbital images, see the slideshow to the right.) Among ...