Sentence examples for asteroid surface from inspiring English sources

Hayabusa made two landings and ascents from the asteroid surface on November 19 and 25.

The largest rover on board the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is a 10kg cube-shaped machine called MASCOT (for Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, and illustrated on the previous page with its mother ship).

Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout.

No substantial regional difference was found on the asteroid surface, indicating its homogeneity in composition.

We propose here an evaluation procedure for the reflectance spectra of asteroid surface areas.

During the Hayabusa 2 mission, an impactor will be shot into the asteroid surface.

At PEL we conducted spectroscopic measurements of several meteorites and other analogues for asteroid surfaces.

Those data provide more direct analogues for asteroid surfaces and expand our existing database of emissivity and reflectance measurements.

The physical characteristics of asteroid surfaces are best defined by direct measurements, few of which currently exist.

The risks and challenges posed by asteroid surfaces to in-situ investigations force the proximity operations to be done by the intermediary of robotic explorers.

A simple reliability index, which is derived via uncertainty ellipsoid from covariance analysis, is introduced to create a global reliability map across the asteroid surfaces.