印度的火星轨道飞行器任务(Mars Orbiter Mission, MOM)是该国首次前往火星,这颗红色星球的任务。其印地语名字为Mangalyaan(曼加里安号),意为“火星飞船”。飞行任务由印度空间研究组织负责,任务的目的是测试行星际探测的关键技术,并使用其五种科学仪器从轨道上研究火星表面和大气层。Mangalyaan探测器基于改进的月船1号而...
CHEOPS The CHEOPS’ ESA mission is providing data to understand the make-up of exoplanets that orbit nearby stars. Bartolomeo The Airbus-operated Bartolomeo platform enables the external payloads to be hosted in low Earth orbit on board the ISS. ...
The derivation of these atmospheric quantities will employ primarily the 260, 320, and 635 nm bands using a look-up table (LUT) based radiative transfer analyses similar to that developed for the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) (Malin et al. 2008; Tod...
Contains more than 212,000 Images! Welcome to the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Image Gallery! This site contains all of the pictures of Mars acquired by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter through September 2005. NOTE:MOC data for the period, October 2005 – March 2006, have been arch...
India's first Red Planet effort, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday (Sept. 24). The $70 million MOM is primarily a technology demonstration, though it will also hunt for methane — a gas that here on Earth is primarily produced by living organisms — in...
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also calledMangalyaan (Hindi: “Mars Craft”), unmanned mission toMarsthat isIndia‘s first interplanetary spacecraft. TheIndian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) launched the Mars Orbiter Mission on November 5, 2013, using its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missionThe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will be launched in August 2005 by an Atlas V 401 expendable launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. It will deliver to Mars orbit a payload to conduct remote sensing science observations, identify and ...
The Mars Express Orbiter has captured images of a huge crater full of ice on the surface of Mars, just in time for the holiday season. The European Space Agency’s (ESA)Mars Express missionwas launched back in June 2003 and entered orbit around the red planet in December of the same yea...
instruments – which include cameras, spectrometers, and radar – this spacecraft has been analyzing landforms, geology, minerals and ice on Mars for years and assisting with other missions. While the mission was only meant to last two years, the orbiter has remained in operation for the past ...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), U.S. satellite that orbited Mars and studied its geology and climate. The MRO was launched on August 12, 2005, and carried instruments for studying the atmosphere of Mars and for searching for signs of water on the plan