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As it soared past Mars in March, NASA's Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish ...
We got everything out of the flyby that we dreamed,” said Don Blankenship, NASA’s REASON radar principal investigator, as ...
The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully tested its ice-penetrating radar system during a close flyby of Mars earlier this year.
NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures ...
Europa Clipper's radar instrument received echoes of its very-high-frequency radar signals that bounced off Mars and were ...
From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in ...
NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within just 550 miles of the red planet’s surface on March 1.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured a thermal image of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby, testing instruments ahead of its mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa.
While Europa Clipper flew past Mars on March 1, the thousands of grayscale images it obtained weren’t transmitted to Earth until May 5. After running the images through specialized software that ...
The Europa Clipper will come just 550 miles (884 km) from the surface of Mars, traveling at speeds of 15.2 miles per second (24.5 km per second) relative to the Sun when it's closest to the planet.