Sentences with phrase «cassini magnetometer»

The only protruding features beyond the shield are a 10 - metre electric field antennae and an 11 - metre magnetometer boom (used to make magnetic observations).

From this, the Cassini magnetometer team inferred that Enceladus must be a source of ionized gas.

The Myo arm band includes the same motion sensors as modern smartphones — a gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer — to measure precisely how your arm moves through space.

Similarly, the PBA also agreed to drop its formal grievance against the town for using the constables to monitor those entering the courtroom through recently installed magnetometers which screen for weapons.

The geologists clambered up the valley walls, stopping every few dozen feet to measure the rocks» polarity with a handheld magnetometer.

NASA Goddard manages the MAVEN project and provided two science instruments for the mission, including the magnetometer.

They also will gather more magnetometer data over the next few years to see how the various surface magnetic fields affect the tail as Mars rotates.

Tarduno and his team used a unique superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID magnetometer, at the University of Rochester that provides a sensitivity ten times greater than comparable instruments.

Ren's system uses the magnetometer in a phone, which is there for the phone's compass, to detect a magnetic field.

A more recent application used a whole fleet of smartphone sensors — including the gyroscope, accelerometer, light sensor and magnetism - measuring magnetometer — to guess PINs.

«Our magnetometers (magnetic field sensors) are highly sensitive and can reliably measure even the smallest of changes in the ambient magnetic field,» explains Professor Uwe Hartmann.

Radio telemetry from minuscule magnetometers and gyroscopes on the deployed Sprites would then be used to track the spacecraft as they shift, spin and tumble, to better understand their orbital dynamics.

Jarillo - Herrero's group grew chromium triiodide crystals and flaked off single - and multi-layer sheets, while Xu's lab studied the samples using a sensitive magnetometer.

When they placed the angrites in the magnetometer, the researchers observed very little remnant magnetization, indicating there was very little magnetic field present when the angrites formed.

That tank carries a camera, spectrometers, magnetometers, plasma and particle detectors, a microwave sensor and a radio antenna.

And although some instruments on its 2 - ton, bus - sized body have faced trouble — one of its two magnetometers failed soon after it arrived at Saturn, necessitating intricate rolls to calibrate it — most have metronomically continued as Saturn's seasons shifted from spring to summer solstice during its 29.5 - year orbit.

Gyroscopes, magnetometers, and accelerometers measure roll, pitch, and yaw, as well as posture, balance and acceleration.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told the Associated Press that the device was «a specific type of bomb that is of new design and very difficult to detect by magnetometer».

Designed by Harvard researcher Zachary Manchester, about half the wafer consists of a solar cell for generating electricity, and the rest includes a small microprocessor, a radio transceiver and magnetometer, and a gyroscope for navigation and orientation.

This result is supported by the finding of a small magnetic anomaly above the same spot during our magnetometer survey.

INEL plans to construct a multiple - magnetometer scanner that could be incorporated into the doorways of a building.

Aboard are a dozen instruments, including sensors for visible light, ultraviolet, and infrared as well as magnetometers, radar, and plasma detectors.

Our studies would require a range of technologies, such as acoustic echo sounders, a magnetometer, subbottom acoustic profilers, a ground - penetrating radar, devices to recover sediment cores, an underwater television camera and a set of GPS receivers to enable study teams to track their position with a resolution of less than a meter.

But a few instruments, including MAVEN's magnetometer, remained on, conducting observations from a front - row seat during the comet's remarkably close flyby.

An onboard magnetometer will measure the depth and saltiness of the ocean and a spectrometer will measure chemicals in Europa's uppermost layers of ice.

Traditionally, such atomic magnetometers are used to measure naturally occurring magnetic fields, but in this NIST project, they are being used to receive coded communications signals.

For these studies, NIST developed a direct - current (DC) magnetometer in which polarized light is used as a detector to measure the «spin» of rubidium atoms induced by magnetic fields.

To improve performance further, the NIST team is now building and testing a custom quantum magnetometer.

So Beck and colleagues trained magnetometers on the earthen mound, which revealed a startling contrast between the magnetic properties of the soil and unusual structural frames beneath it.

Such «optically pumped» magnetometers, in addition to high sensitivity, offer advantages such as room - temperature operation, small size, low power and cost, and reduced interference.

The goggles have accelerometers and magnetometers to detect changes in the orientation of the user's head — if the individual turns left, right, up or down, his or her view of the virtual world pivots accordingly.

You could widen their range if you had a magnetometer based on a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID.

Magnetometers have been used to detect submarines since the second world war.

Researchers estimate that a SQUID magnetometer of this type could detect a sub from 6 kilometres away, and Caplin says that with better noise suppression the range could be much greater.

The researchers, using ground - based magnetometers, found a signature of what's known as a substorm current wedge — one of the major features of a classic substorm.

Its initial design included a magnetometer that could have detected a field permanently locked into the asteroid's crust when any early dynamo was active.

But cost overruns forced the team to drop the magnetometer.

The new magnetometer, built by Xiaoming Xie and colleagues at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, uses not one SQUID but an array of them.

Not everyone is convinced the Chinese magnetometer is ready for deployment.

Superconducting magnetometers are exquisitely sensitive, but their promise has been limited to the lab.

At the core of AMPERE is a communications network with 66 Iridium satellites, each of which has a magnetometer capable of monitoring Earth's magnetic field.

The US Navy gave up work on superconducting magnetometers to pursue less sensitive but more mature technologies.

Then the xenon flows into the smaller chamber, where its polarization is measured, using the rubidium atoms in the same chamber as magnetometers.

The research entitled «Network analysis of geomagnetic substorms using the SuperMAG database of ground - based magnetometer stations» has just been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics by a team of researchers from the Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick; The Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA.

MAVEN's magnetometer found a decrease in the occurrence of electromagnetic waves excited by hydrogen ions, indicating a decrease in the amount of hydrogen present.

These iron - rich minerals are far less than the width of human hair in size, but produce a strong magnetic signal that can be easily measured by modern magnetometers.

The research team used data from over 100 individual magnetometers located at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere.

(a simple yes or no) to real world observations i.e. are these two magnetometers seeing the same thing?»

University of Warwick researcher Professor Sandra Chapman, one of the lead researchers, on the paper said: «The new SuperMAG data collection opened up the possibility of finding patterns of correlation between each pair of all of the magnetometers, and studying how this changes in time.

The magnetometer sitting in your smartphone can do more than just tell which way to go: it can also be used to receive messages