Sentences with phrase «imaging spectrometer imaging»

Abstract: Using the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer Imaging array (ACIS - I), we have carried out a deep hard X-ray observation of the Galactic plane region at (l, b) ~ (28.5, 0.0), where no discrete X-ray source had been reported previously.

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For example, one of the mission's instruments called the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) will identify and map the amount of possible life - giving elements like organic material, salts, and acid hydrates in Europa's surface and underwater ocean.

A split imaging spectrometer for temporally and spatially resolved titanium absorption spectroscopy

Once he had the signal from the lab glass, he used an algorithm designed to pick out similar signals in data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which flies aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Detection of the impact glass by researchers at Brown University, Providence, R.I., is based on data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS)-- A student experiment provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in Cambridge, which will observe the X-ray spectrum to identify chemical elements on Bennu's surface and their abundances.

Examination of some of the scarps with MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) confirmed that the bright material is frozen water.

Further detectors inside the tank look for decay particles: a magnetic spectrometer measures the momentum of charged tracks from kaon decays, a ring imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector tells the team the nature of decay particles, and electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters measure their energy.

Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet.

Using a unique, high - fidelity imaging spectrometer onboard the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, Asner and his team made the first - ever forest canopy maps of leaf nitrogen, phosphorus, and mass over a large portion of the biosphere covering nearly 200 million acres of Peru.

The new study pairs HiRISE observations with mineral mapping by MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).

This study used variations in the thermal emissivity of the surface observed by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer on the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft to identify compositional differences in lava flows at three hotspots.

Images from Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (UVIS), obtained from an unusually close range of about six Saturn radii, provided a look at the changing patterns of faint emissions on scales of a few hundred miles (kilometers) and tied the changes in the auroras to the fluctuating wind of charged particles blowing off the sun and flowing past Saturn.

Intense extreme ultraviolet FEL pulses were directed at the clusters and the resultant energy distribution of electrons knocked out of the clusters was measured using a «velocity map imaging spectrometer».

For Huygens's crucial imaging camera and spectrometer, the channel A mishap touched off a different set of troubles.

Then the larger research team used data from the sensor onboard the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) to examine how the color of the lake water changed during those years — an indication of the concentration of the toxic blue - green algae present in HABs.

That's the job of the Complex Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM.

Working with the Canadian Space Agency, GHGSat spent three years designing a satellite whose lightweight imaging spectrometer can focus on an area as small as 164 square feet.

The telescope, which recently lost one of its four main instruments, the imaging spectrometer, could fail as early as 2007 without new batteries.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

Orbiting instruments like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on the Aqua satellite, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite collect data on the color of the ocean.

Now, a team using an imaging spectrometer aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reports the discovery of numerous patches of opaline silica across the Red Planet.

And until now, Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer and imaging science subsystem had only been able to capture distant, oblique or partial views of this area.

The Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) observed comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring as the comet sped close to Mars on Oct. 19.

The data were gathered using the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer on Chandra, an instrument conceived and designed by a team led by Penn State Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics Gordon Garmire.

In another study, the craft used its Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer to identify energetic charged atoms and molecules (plasma) caught in Mercury's magnetic field.

Chemical imaging involves the use of a laser or ion beam to analyse the sections of skin using a mass spectrometer.

High - resolution thermal imaging of Jupiter by the COoled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea is providing information that extends and enhances the information that the Juno mission is gathering in its unprecedented mission to probe that planet's interior and deep atmospheric structure together with details of the magnetosphere and its auroral interactions with the planet.

It consists of a charge - coupled device camera with four color filters spanning wavelengths from 400 to 970 nm plus a near - infrared imaging spectrometer covering wavelengths from 1.25 to 2.5 μm, where the various cryogenic ices are distinguishable via their characteristic vibrational absorption features.

Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15 - minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.

The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) instrument captured this infrared radiation during Venus Express's night - time orbits around the planet's southern hemisphere.

Dr. Chapman was also a member of the MSI / NIS (imaging / spectrometer) Team of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR Shoemaker) mission to Eros, which was launched in February 1996, went into orbit around Eros on Valentine's Day, 2000, and successfully landed on the surface of Eros on Feb. 12, 2001.

The Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) is a very versatile visible - wavelength imaging and spectroscopy instrument commissioned in 1993 and operating at the Cassegrain focus of Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) is a very versatile visible - wavelength imaging and spectroscopy instrument commissioned in 1993 and operating at the Cassegrain focus of imaging and spectroscopy instrument commissioned in 1993 and operating at the Cassegrain focus of Keck I.

Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.

They got the details using an imaging mass spectrometer that typically boil liquids away in vacuum.

The Williams lab also has an imaging time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometer used for novel bioimaging applications.

The space agency says that the MRO watched the comet go by with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), the Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), and the Context Camera (CTX), and will continue to observe the comet while it remains within range over the next few days.

Image from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing deposits of impact glass (green) in Alga Crater.

• Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) replaced Faint Object Spectrometer (FOS).

Infrared Multi-object Spectrometer (IRMS) The Infrared Multi-object Spectrometer (IRMS) will allow close to diffraction - limited imaging and slit spectroscopy over a 2 arcminute diameter field - of - view at near - infrared wavelengths (0.8 — 2.5 μm).

In addition, MSSS built the Mars Odyssey (ODY) Thermal Emission Imaging Spectrometer (THEMIS) Visible (VIS) camera subsystem, which shares optics with the thermal infrared instrument and is operated at Arizona State University (ASU).

During this period, in - flight tests were conducted on the spacecraft's Alice ultraviolet imaging spectrometer and Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), as well as LORRI, and New Horizons passed the orbit of Mars inspectrometer and Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), as well as LORRI, and New Horizons passed the orbit of Mars inSpectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), as well as LORRI, and New Horizons passed the orbit of Mars in April 2006.

Velten's current work with the medical devices team at the Morgridge Institute for Research focuses on the imaging technology used in advanced microscopes and mass spectrometers.

Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) The Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) will be mounted on the observatory Adaptive Optics system and be capable of diffraction - limited imaging and integral - field spectroscopy at near - infrared wavelengths (0.8 — 2Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) The Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) will be mounted on the observatory Adaptive Optics system and be capable of diffraction - limited imaging and integral - field spectroscopy at near - infrared wavelengths (0.8 — 2Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) will be mounted on the observatory Adaptive Optics system and be capable of diffraction - limited imaging and integral - field spectroscopy at near - infrared wavelengths (0.8 — 2imaging and integral - field spectroscopy at near - infrared wavelengths (0.8 — 2.5 μm).

Wide Field Optical Spectrometer (WFOS) The Wide Field Optical Spectrometer (WFOS) will provide near - ultraviolet and optical (0.3 — 1.0 μm wavelength) imaging and spectroscopy over a more than 40 square arcminute field - of - view.

«Having global access with modern imaging spectrometers from lunar orbit is the next best thing to having a geologist with a rock hammer doing the field work across the surface.»

The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is an HST instrument providing the capability for infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of astronomical targets.

Images from the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) and the Coronal Diagnostics Spectrometer (CDS) on SOHO show the hot gases of the ever - changing corona reacting to the evolving magnetic fields rooted in the solar surface.

Central to the chemical imaging core is the Waters Synapt G2 - Si high definition mass spectrometer, which allows mass spectrometric imaging of tissue sections, and discern disease - related molecules from the surrounding population.

During the past five years, researchers used OMEGA and NASA's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer, or CRISM, instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to identify clay minerals at thousands of locations on Mars.