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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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

In addition to providing important information on its own, NGIMS would complement other instruments aboard, specifically the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrometer, which would also measure gas composition.

Ralph also contains the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) which is a spectrometer that will measure the composition of materials on the surfaces of Pluto and Charon.

Seen at the top left, the Chandra X-ray Observatory's false color view of the Cartwheel galaxy was taken with the S - array on the telescope's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer.

Sources such as the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on the Aura satellite, the Cloud - Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO), and the ground - based Aerosol Robotic Network (Aeronet) will be used, requiring the input of both the modeling and observational communities.