First, the lander's instruments found high salt concentrations in soil surrounding the spacecraft.
The distribution of the rocklike frozen objects surrounding the spacecraft indicated that "they were perhaps moved by liquid flow," Dr. Tomasko said.
Results show that the reconstruction works well with small errors in a rectangular region surrounding the spacecraft trajectory.
The board issued its first significant statement on the accident on Thursday, saying that preliminary analysis by NASA engineers had found that the superheated gases that surround the spacecraft as it entered the atmosphere had somehow penetrated the wing or wheel well.
"It's too early to take a guess" but the issue with Juno was not caused by the intense radiation belts surrounding Jupiter because the spacecraft was far away when it entered safe mode, said mission chief scientist Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
As is now expected with this kind of film, the protagonist is a flustered, bewildered civilian expert, brusquely pressed into service by the military, which has got the spacecraft surrounded in the short term.
As is now expected with this kind of film, the protagonist is a flustered, bewildered civilian with special expertise, brusquely pressed into service by the military, which has got the spacecraft surrounded in the short term.
An astronaut in free orbit can remain poised motionless in the centre of the cabin of his spacecraft, surrounded by differently constituted objects, all equally motionless (except for their extremely weak mutual attractions) because all of them are identically affected by the gravitational field in which they are moving.
Villagers collect scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies.
The main elements of this shield are an electrostatic charged cylindrical screen surrounding the protected volume of the spacecraft.
