Their Venera series used entry probes and orbiters to study the atmospheric composition and structure, surface composition, and topography (Moroz, 1983).
Tape-spring hinges have been used in the Japanese Mars orbiter PLANT-B for bar-like deployment structures of the thermal plasma analyzer [7, 8, 9].
Scientists working with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been orbiting the moon since 2009, decided to look more closely for possible volcanic structures.
Engineers would review data, the agency said, and inspect the rotating service structure, which provides access to the orbiter on the launch pad and has to be rolled back before liftoff.
It also includes a look at the launching-pad structure that was dumping flakes of zinc oxide onto the orbiter's wing, leading to corrosion.
Another approach under consideration is to compare Jutzi and Asphaug's simulations with details of the moon's internal structure, gleaned from lunar maps drawn up by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and high-resolution gravity maps of the moon, which will be obtained next year by Nasa's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.
The fine structure of the main ring was discovered in data from the Galileo orbiter and is clearly visible in back-scattered images obtained from New Horizons in February March 2007.
Local and regional dust storms observed by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) exhibit three main types of textures in their visible top structures which we describe as "pebbled", "puffy", and "plume-like".
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration recognized a problem, and had already twice redesigned a structure known as the bipod ramp, part of a fixture that attached the orbiter to the tank.
A sensor directly behind Panel 9, attached to its support structure, began heating up at 8 44:09 Eastern time on Feb. 1, about 14 minutes before the orbiter broke up, Admiral Gehman said.
