Sentence examples for touchdown location from inspiring English sources
Assuming the landing succeeds, CIVA will then take a full 360-degree panorama of its touchdown location.
Over the course of one Martian year, Curiosity will try to determine whether past environments at its touchdown location could ever have supported life.
It's basically adding intelligence to a craft's landing apparatus so it can autonomously change its touchdown location, implement safety measures and so on, based on the actual local observed conditions.
"Search and rescue teams are in the air and heading toward the expected touchdown location for the Soyuz spacecraft returning to Earth carrying two crew members," NASA said in a statement.
For multiple measurements per cell, different touchdown locations were selected.
Final confirmation of the touchdown sequence and location was given by the Lander Operations Readiness Review, which met at the European Space Agency's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, on Tuesday.
It has since driven east of its touchdown point to a location that satellite images had identified as an intersection of three distinct geological terrains.
Applying various analytical and numerical techniques, some properties of touchdown set such as compactness, location and shape are also discussed for different classes of varying permittivity profiles.
Europe's Rosetta mission, which aims to put a robot on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has identified five potential locations for the touchdown.
China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft, which made a historic touchdown on January 3 (Beijing time), used its terrain camera to take 360 degree shots of its location in Von Kármán crater.
